Which piece should I learn next on the piano?

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What about those prepared piano pieces by John Cage (I think it's him)?

But that's outside the Romantic period and style

and i don't really like his stuff!

How about Rachmaninov? That's big Romanticism (for big hands!). Also, your Chopin interest could possibly expand into Scriabin, who had synaesthesia and is therefore of interest to neurodiversity.

Prelude in C Sharp Minor by Rachmaninov was one of the first pieces I played, but I tried others and they really kill my hands. I hate having small hands

Yes, I do enjoy Scriabin. I sorta play on/off his etude 8 12. Which is gorgeous. But i'm not great at it really. ^_^

Its too bad only one of the movements is famous. The other two, especially the third, are beautiful - at least the one recording I have of them (from Richard Goode's recording of Beethoven's piano sonatas)... if you can play that at the tempo I've heard it, especially having only played two years, then you have my deepest respect and admiration

When I played an instrument I could never sight read either. I would have loved to play the piano but man, for the life of me I could never get my left and right hands doing things on different rhythms.

Bach!

haha can't stand him!

Haha! Really??

Why? I have never met anyone who didn't like Bach. Is he hard to play or is it that you don't like his music?

i don't like his music just, not really my sort of thing. it feels so mechanical to listen to, i've tried playing his pieces and i don't struggle with them techinically, i just don't enjoy them!

I've been playing a year, but find it hard to motivate myself to practice. I can play complicated stuff that I know, pretty easily. But mess some simple stuff up that i'm not familiar with

I thought I was the only one .

I bought a piano a couple of years back, but ended up getting so into it I developed a neck strain. After a few weeks of recovery, the obsession had lifted. I enjoy to play it on the odd occasion. The most annoying thing about playing is when my hands are too small to reach some of the chords .

Uhh, it was a joke. I'll make it clearer next time. What about some Beethoven pieces? Or perhaps make arrangement of pop songs into a romantic style? It's a good way to learn theory, I found anyway.

I find I usually just play pop songs by ear! ^_^