r/classicalpiano

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Since there are many classical pieces out there, I wanted to know what i should be learning or practicing more based on your experiences 😁.

Thank you in advance!

(after 11 years of having a tutor my family unfortunately cannot continue due to financial constraints, so I'm self-learning)

For some reason I have never touched the chopin etudes in the duration of my piano tutelage. In the past week, I've practiced 10/5 enough to play it from memory. Aside from perfecting said piece, which I will obviously do, what are some etudes I should be playing next?

(for the record I think the most difficult piece I've pulled off successfully is ravel's toccata from le tombeau de couperin, so I think I can tolerate a fairly advanced set of techniques)

Enjoy it!!

Hi everyone, I am a composer and ex-concert pianist. I mostly use the piano nowadays as a means of composing and improvising, and want to get some music with really juicy harmonies under my fingers.

While I have played a lot music from all periods, towards the end of my more serious piano career, I was hyper-focused on Bach and Beethoven (to the extent of learning all 32 Beethoven Sonatas and the entire Well-Tempered Book 2). I now find that my 'muscle' memory (both fingers and intellectual) is somewhat stuck in those earlier musical periods, harmonically.

I have studied a lot of jazz and contemporary theory, so I 'understand' harmony into the later 19th and 20th centuries. Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk are probably my favorites. But that's not replacement for really having it in my fingers. I was curious to hear some ideas about post-romantic music that has really incredible harmony.

Thankfully, I can learn music quite quickly, and difficulty is not an issue. Right now I am diving into Scriabin, learning his 4th Sonata and maybe something from the later period like the 9th Sonata. I love Scriabin's bridging of tonality and atonality, and his beautiful sense of linking things chromatically. I also just relearned Ravel's Ondine, which is incredible of course. His piano version of La Valse has a really beautiful harmonic language.

Maybe some recommendations for Messaien or Ives? I've never connected with their music, but they certainly did interesting stuff with harmony. Interested to hear any sort of suggestion!

I'm Level B and trying to keep learning and practicing. Wondering which app have you used that you would recommend.