Repertoire and Technique advice for the Left Hand!

Tue Oct 26 2021 at 11 AM PDT

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Our Left Hand deserves just as much attention as our Right! Today we take a look at repertoire of varying difficulty levels, with recommended technical advice to bring confidence and prowess into our playing!

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We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!

What questions do you have on this topic?
Any particular area you would like me to focus on?

- Julio_Jauregui
- 3 yrs ago
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Hi Dominic was there going to be links to the books you were mentioning, is it here where you were going to link them or somewhere else? Thank you in advance.
- Dominic_Cheli
  
  3 yrs ago
  
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  Julio Jauregui Here They are!
  
  Czerny: Etudes for the Left Hand
  
  Berens: Exercsies for the Left Hand
  
  Godowsky: (Select Etudes for the left hand)
  
  Nepomuceno: 5 pieces for the Left hand
  
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- Luna
  
  3 yrs ago
  
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  Dominic Cheli I was about to ask too, thank you very much!
- Julio_Jauregui
  
  3 yrs ago
  
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  Dominic Cheli Thank you very much!
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- Deborah_McCarthy
- 3 yrs ago
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Thank you very much. I’m looking forward to working on these studies and pieces!
- Ben_Katt
- 3 yrs ago
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I finally got around to watching this. Thanks Dominic Cheli for the really helpful video! I went through a phase of learning left hand only pieces a couple years ago, so I found this talk really interesting.

Another really nice book for left hand only pieces is "Piano Music for One Hand" by Raymond Lewenthal: https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Music-One-Hand-Collection/dp/0793552680 . The book includes a lengthy preface describing some of the challenges and techniques for left hand music.

I recorded a few of my favorites from this book a couple years back.

1. Blumenfeld - Etude for the LH alone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTUxrjoQbI

2. Chopin/Godowsky - Op 10 No 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPcZOQTdzrk . Dominic mentioned a few others from the Chopin/Godowsky collection.
- xiao
- 3 yrs ago
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There are some specialized categories for the left hand repertoire on IMSLP :
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:For_piano_left_hand
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:For_piano_left_hand_(arr)

Among them, I was moved and surprised by Paul Wittgenstein's works.
https://imslp.org/wiki/School_for_the_Left_Hand_(Wittgenstein%2C_Paul)
- Yolanda
- 1 yr ago
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Hello; Dominic showed Suite by Erwin Schulhoff. Do you know where we can download the complete work? thanks