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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Yay, Ludwig! I will be celebrating your special day with the first movement of Op. 10 No 3.
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Like Gail, I’ll be working on the Pastoral Sonata op. 28. Looking forward to learning and celebrating with all of you!
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Andrea Buckland My lovely German twin
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Gail Starr
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This is a great opportunity for me to solidify Pathetique 2nd movement. I learned and practiced this piece the first half of the year. It has already slipped away from my memory. Thanks for inspiration.
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I working on the whole moonlight sonata would love to give the last movement ago will do practice video can we submit the performance video in advance it's just I'm in new Zealand and the hours are different so I don't play piano at night I have a keyboard but it's pretty quiet
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Maybe Appassionata, 1. Or maybe another thing!
Ciao!
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I'm working on the Op.90 E minor sonata. It's been frustrating because it feels like I'm having to spend about 90% of my practice time for the first movement on the wretched/notorious extended Alberti bass pattern – and still can't do it up to speed! But would love to give it a go anyway
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Mark Ware Hey, Mark! If YOU can’t get it up to speed, no one can…
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Gail Starr we'll see … !
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Mark Ware I have enormous confidence in your abilities!
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May I join this illustrious group of pianists in order to watch, learn and enjoy?
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Adena Can't wait to hear you!
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I will learn the very charming op 14 no 2
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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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Jeff I like how you contrasted the repeat! Such a tough piece to memorize with all the neat modulations. You're sounding great!
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Jeff great stuff Jeff, and I agree with Judy very impressive memorisation!!
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Mark Cooper thank you!
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Jeff Great job!
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Gail Starr thank you!
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Jeff Nice beginning! I like your touch, the tone. Can't wait to hear!
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Jeff Great job playing and memorizing this wonderful movement!
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Vidhya Bashyam thank you for listening!
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Jeff what a masterpiece! Like the others I am also very impressed with your memorization skills! Amazing! Great work!
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Ursina Boehm thank you, very kind!
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