Week 1: Beethoven Birthday Challenge – Choose Your Piece! 🎶
Welcome to the first week of our Beethoven Birthday Challenge! In celebration of Beethoven’s genius, we invite you to select a piece from his repertoire to explore and perform this week. Whether you’re drawn to his sonatas, variations, or shorter works, the choice is yours! Let’s dive into his music and share our progress throughout the week.
Happy practicing, and may the spirit of Beethoven inspire you!
Challenge:
- Pick your Piece!
- Share your first video with us - it could be sight reading, playing, or talking about why you love the music!
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I have been learning Op. 31 No. 2, the "Tempest" sonata. Here is a video of the third movement. Not quite mastered for performance yet -- in particular, I (crudely) edited out a few brief memory glitches (there are still some wrong notes :).
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Thanks Judy! Much appreciated.
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Hi, I'm currently working on op 111. I'll try to share my progress on the first movement! Happy practicing to everyone!
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I shouldn’t, but I cannot resist! I will rework the Pathétique and see how far I get. Played the first movement at a small recital in June and never wanted to see it again, but I learnt so much from the Fast Track program and feel it deserves better treatment.
So here we go again :)
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I'm super impressed that so many have chosen the Sonatas! Looking forward to listening to all your progress and the final submissions in this challenge :)
Not sure if I will fully join this challenge, though it may be a good opportunity for me to brush up 2-3 pieces from the Bagatelles.
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I’ve been working on Beethoven’s bagatelle in b minor, op 126 no 4 for a week or two…here I am trying to play as much as I can without the score. I like getting to the point where it’s memorized because then it’s easier to use little moments during the day to practice the tricky bits.
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Hi. My first attempt of recording the 3rd mov of Pathetique Sonata. I took some time to memorize it, because for me it's important, and of course I've lost some details and notes.
For the next week I want to check with metronome my tempo, make it cleaner and color differently the A part so it won't be repetitive