What piece(s) are you currently trying to learn?

My is playing the turd Beethoven cello sonata.

The TURD beethoven cellos sonata?

Well, i'm learning a Sonata by Mozart.

Beethoven's cello sonatas are great! They've got good parts for the piano, for a change.

I know but you reffered to it as the TURD.

Third.

Right now the 3rd movement of La Catedral (Barrios) Allegro Solemne

Hey I'd like to know how old some of you people are...

Composed many pieces yet?

Well I'm 14, and at the moment I'm doing grade 7 piano. I'm working on the Golliwog's Cake-Walk. Very lively piece... bit tricky where the right hand plays literally underneath the left hand, as you have to keep your left hand wrist very high.

Very enjoyable piece! Is anyone else playing it?

Hey, Cinzia! I would like to welcome you to this site. You really don't waste anytime getting around. This is the kind of thing that will make you fit in immediately.

You have great taste in music! I love Debussy and the Impressionists. I am also playing that one except what I am doing is sort of sight reading it. That is one of the pieces that I like to try and sight read. I do not play it very well but I get many of the notes when I sight read it. I also sort of quickly edit the notes that I cannot readily play out of my playing while I am sight reading. I also love to try and sight read some of the easier of Greig's lyric pieces. I cannot sight read all of things like the wedding one and the butterfly one.

The pieces that I am working on right now are the Estampes series by Debussy and the Adagio by Kodaly (not a really famous piece but awesome nonetheless).

chopins fantasie impromptu in c# minor

chopins valse opus 69:2 in b minor

flight of the bumblebee (very much on/off)

Right now I am starting to learn all the pieces from Bach's "Orgel-Buchlein", in order from start to finish, as part of my organ studies.

Also: Buxtehude's Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C Major, and one of his Preludes in D Major, his Prelude and Fugue in F# minor and some assorted Chorale Partitas from Bach and Georg Bohm.

I tend to focus very intensely on one piece for a short amount of time, learn it thoroughly, and move on to the next.

Right now, I'm learning Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in Ab Major, which has got to be on my top five list of best piano pieces ever written.

i love chopin's fantasie impromptu, aleximo! I'm sight-reading that at the moment.

Is anyone in the same kind of age-group as me? (14..) Everyone (or the vast majority of people) seem to love hip hop, rap .. and all that R'n'B stuff... and it's really not my thing. At all. In fact, I hate that music!!! I much prefer to listen to film music... haha but then maybe I'm just weird.

A Stephen Heller prelude (in C sharp minor I think).

Beethoven's sonata WoO 47.. (funny name, think I got that right)

trying to perfect rondo alla turka by mozart

and also 'If you believe'- by Jim brickman :)

On guitar I'm doing sor's etudes... forgot which one. Think I'm gonna have a pop at vincent lindsey clark... If I can just nail the sor's etudes... grrr....

I like rondo alla turca Nigel. One of the first peices i ever learned. I never got tired of it.

I'm learning Golliwog's Cakewalk. Oddly enough, because i dont like debussy.

But i like that peice. It's fun.

The storm by Burgmuller

Album for the young by Schumann

Sonate in Bb D.960 by schubert

One of the english suites by Bach (duh!)

Waltz in C# minor by Chopin

Some Mazurkas by Chopin

I am learning Debussy's "Reverie", and I want to learn his Toccata (from his Suite pour Piano) and some of his etudes maybe. Well, what can I say, the Reverie has an incredible mood, and is just beautious, the Toccata has this perpetuous movement and is so cool and is really challenging, and his etudes too are challenging.

I am also looking for Dello Joio's scores of "Suite for Piano", which I find really interesting and great, and for Dutilleux' scores of "Sonata" (for piano), which is an amazing piece :blush: you can listen to the Sonata at www.pianosociety.com, just like the etudes and the debussy pieces I described above.

Chopin's Etude No. 3 in E

Love it love it love it. So much emotion.

Ginastera's Doce Preludios Americanos

My first serious foray into contemporary. Lots of fun too.

*sigh* I don't practice enough.

Piano:

Debussy's Feux d'artifice

Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto 3rd mvmt

Chopin's "Revolutionary" Etude

Violin:

Mozart's Violin Conerto No. 5 in A major 1st mvmt

Lately...

Hans Sitt, Viola Concerto in A minor

on/ off chopins 2nd etude in a minor, it just compeltely knackers my right hand :-S, i havnt actually been learnin anything just perfecting the pieces i no, and loadsa sclaes and arpeggios!

Suite I by Johann Mattheson - just the Prelude and Courantes for now.

Hexachordum Apollinis - Aria II and Variations by Johann Pachelbel

Hexachordum Apollinis is a really awesome set of harpsichord airs by Pachelbel. There are six airs each with six variations, and the whole thing is very monumental; each air has its own unique character. He wrote them in memory of Buxtehude. I hope to learn them all someday. :P

La de Brissac by Jacques Duphly

Canzona Quarta by Girolamo Frescobaldi Ferrarensis

and hopefully soon, Cappricio VIII by Johann Jakob Froberger

all on the harpsichord.

Praeludium and Fugue, you're learning music by Bohm? I've wanted to get a hold of his harpsichord suites for a long time, but that sort of music is hard to find.

I've added Lehar's Hungarian Fantasy to the list of things I'm learning. It is awesome!!

I am learning Debussy's "Reverie", and I want to learn his Toccata (from his Suite pour Piano) and some of his etudes maybe. Well, what can I say, the Reverie has an incredible mood, and is just beautious, the Toccata has this perpetuous movement and is so cool and is really challenging, and his etudes too are challenging.

I am also looking for Dello Joio's scores of "Suite for Piano", which I find really interesting and great, and for Dutilleux' scores of "Sonata" (for piano), which is an amazing piece :) you can listen to the Sonata at www.pianosociety.com, just like the etudes and the debussy pieces I described above.

Go for it on the Debussy. I am getting close to finishing the Jardins sous la Pluie from his Estampes. It is the most challenging piece I have tried to learn thus far. It was really about 10 times more challenging that any of my previous efforts. So, I just picked it up and said what the heck. I have given it lots of practice and effort and I have been incredibly surprised at the progress I have made. I never thought that I would play something like this. Anyways, I am trying to get that little arpeggio part down - you know, the part that has the sextuplet/quintuplet rhythm and goes up two octaves and then down and then up and down and up and down and is nearly to be played at the speed of sound. It is incredibly diffucult to be accurate, precise, speedier than hell, and soft as it is notated (pp) all at the same time. However, as I am getting it down I am finding it to be loads of fun to just rip off. :P

The other piece that I am almost finished with is "Notturno" by Grieg. Very beautiful and a slight diffucult with the counting but not too bad. I am grateful to have something a little easier so that I do not feel like I am trying to climb Mt. Everest everytime I sit down to play something.

My new piece that I am really excited about is called Excursions and it is written by Samuel Barber. It is another fast one like the Debussy, but it is not quit as fast. I really like the contemporary harmonies in this one. I also love the fast passed contemporary rhythm/melody. When I hear it it brings images of the gears in a clock tower working so evenly and precisely. Very cool and very different for me. Another challenge!

Chopin's Etude No. 3 in E

Love it love it love it. So much emotion.

Ginastera's Doce Preludios Americanos

My first serious foray into contemporary. Lots of fun too.

*sigh* I don't practice enough.

I'm learning a Ginastera piece as well :shifty:....his "Argentinean Dances" for piano

The Stars and Stripes Forever - Philip Sousa Arr. Guy van Duser

it is HARD