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Classical pieces for a piano player who has been on a one year hiatus?

I took lessons for seven years, but I quit a little over a year ago due to massive amounts of schoolwork/exams. My last program was a Chopin impromptu, a Bach fuga, and a Beethoven sonata (Op 31, no.2) Could you recommend me a few pieces to learn this summer? I won’t have a teacher, but I would still like some relatively challenging pieces. Right now, I have two books of Beethoven sonatas (volumes I and II), a Chopin book of waltzes, a Chopin book of noctures, and Chopin impromptus, and the Bach Well-tempered clavier book 1. I also have a book of Debussy.

Have you ever done the Db major nocturne? It’s beautiful and fairly challenging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmo0H3jxGCA

Have you done any Mendelssohn Songs without Words? There are pant-loads of them, and they are all gems.

For Beethoven, I’d say Op. 2 No. 2 in A Major, or any of the Op. 10, or Op. 31 No 1 or 3. Op. 10 No. 3 is very hard, so maybe hold off on that for now.

Feel free to check out my youtube page, also. I’m michanso2.

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