Which piece should I learn next on the piano?

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Hello, my name is Renny and I have been playing the piano for 2 years now.
I enjoy to play romantic music such as Chopin or Liszt.
I have recently played The Revolutionary Etude and Ballade no.1, both by Chopin.
I would likely play another piece which is from the romantic era.
Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Hi Renny. You must be brilliant to be playing stuff like that after only 2 years! You could always try "Rustle of Spring" by the Norwegian, Christian Sinding

Thanks. I love that piece, however I have already played that. It's really gorgeous though. I played it last spring and it was very nice on windy days.

How are you so good so soon

Beethoven's Sonata No. 8, anyhaps.

Most of my family are very good musicians and my great grand mother was a concert pianist.
It's strange I only started so recently really.
And I do try to practise every day (though admittedly I have practised very little recently).
I will listen to a recording of it on youtube, any pianists who play it especially well?

Honestly, wow. Albeit with a cumulative two-and-a-half years' hiatus, I've been playing for over 10 years and am on me grade eight. So I can go to bed peacefully tonight, how on earth have you gotten there so fast? What do you consider a good week's practice; what are your tutors like and so forth.

Go for whichever pianist you want; it's entirely subjective. Whichever's the most fun to you.

I don't really know. It just comes really naturally to me, kinda random I guess.
I don't know what grades the pieces I play are really.

I think on average I do around 3-4 hours a week. Recently I've only been doing about 2 and sometimes I manage to do lots more.
Mostly I teach myself how to play, my teacher generally lets me get on with it and helps me read the music, which I find difficult. I tend not have any problems bringing things to speed or playing with musicality, mostly I just can't read the music well. I just memorize every piece I play to get over that.

Is that the sort of thing you wanted to know about?

You don't do grades at all? Do you have any recordings of yourself or anything of the sort? I guess that's the amount I've started doing now I've got a decent piano teacher (decent in teaching, not in character, and four hours plus a week), and I'm doing pretty swimmingly. I'd be very keen to have an idea of your prowess

No, I don't. Because I haven't done any technical exercises like scales and I can hardly read music, so the sight reading bit would be difficult for me.
My teacher is a very nice person! ^_^

I have got recordings however I don't really know how to put them on the internet for you to listen to them. I'm not at all virtuosic but I think I do do quite well in spite of my mistakes ^_^

Dayum. Well I suppose I could show you how to get them up here. You should give scales etc a shot too, as they really should help in yr technique. Though I'm not sure if you'll even need them. :0

So, no technical work or music reading - are you. perchance, a savant? That's brilliant in itself if you are.

Yeah, if you explain to me I'll have a go.
I can vaguely do scales now, but I'm not great really. And my teacher said that I would find it difficult.
I can usually work out how the scales go by playing them because I can sorta feel what the key will be.
So when I say I haven't done them I mean I haven't been taught them and never ever practice them, but if need be I can do it.

What is a savant?? <--looks like it comes from savoir??

A savant is a distinguished, learned person.

And yeah—go to a site like megaupload.com, and upload your mp3 onto there, giving us the link provided once it's completed. Watch out as it's ad-heavy, but you should find yr way.

It's websensed at my school so I'll have to wait until I'm home again (I go to boarding school), but half term is coming up soon so i'll do it then! you'll have to keep chatting to me on this board so that i remember though!

Beethoven Sonata n. 29, Hammerklavier

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