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Piano Audition Sonata???

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  • 11-02-2012 10:53pm
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    lcstress2012
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    I have my piano audition, (by the way I got honours in my Grade 8 last week), for uni at the end of March and ONE of the college are looking for the 1st Movement of a Sonata by Beethoven, Mozart or Haynd. I started to play Beethoven Sonata No.5 Op.10 No.1 1st Mov. in C Minor a few weeks ago and it's going really well. Just have to put the hands together. Might just use this for all the other universitys.
    Does anyone know any other good Sonatas by these composers that aren't to difficult that I could use? They need other pieces by a different composer so please suggest pieces at Grade 8 level that I could use. Thanks :)
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    Doshea3
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    lcstress2012 wrote: »
    I have my piano audition, (by the way I got honours in my Grade 8 last week), for uni at the end of March and ONE of the college are looking for the 1st Movement of a Sonata by Beethoven, Mozart or Haynd. I started to play Beethoven Sonata No.5 Op.10 No.1 1st Mov. in C Minor a few weeks ago and it's going really well. Just have to put the hands together. Might just use this for all the other universitys.
    Does anyone know any other good Sonatas by these composers that aren't to difficult that I could use? They need other pieces by a different composer so please suggest pieces at Grade 8 level that I could use. Thanks :)

    Good choice on the Beethoven piece—perhaps the best first movement you could have chosen to have learn in a short period!

    I'd suggest the first movement of Haydn's sonata in C, which I think is No. 35 or something (there are loads of sonatas in C...this one has triplets in the lefthand after about half a page). In fact that was on the Grade VIII syllabus in the past.

    Also the first movement of Mozart C major, K. 330, which was also on the Grade VIII in the past, though that's quite a difficult piece. (I played the whole sonata for my Licentiate diploma a few years ago.)

    The first movement of the Mozart A major K. 331 is also very good, if a little long and samey for an audition.

    What sort of music interests you outside the Classical period?


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