Week 1: Select your piece!
Week 1 — Pick Your Piece
Welcome to the first week of our March Challenge!
This month we’re celebrating Mozart — his clarity, elegance, and incredible sense of musical conversation at the keyboard. The goal of this challenge isn’t perfection or speed. It’s about spending a few weeks living with Mozart’s style and learning how to bring his music to life in your own playing.
How the Challenge Works
Over the next few weeks, you’ll work on one Mozart piece (or short excerpt).
The idea is simple:
choose something manageable, stay with it throughout the challenge, and gradually refine it week by week.
You’re welcome to:
Share practice clips
Post questions or discoveries
Or simply follow along and enjoy the process
At the end of the challenge, we’ll celebrate with a community recital / watch party featuring participants from the forum.
Step 1: Choose Your Mozart Piece
Pick something that feels achievable but interesting. Short excerpts are completely welcome.
Some possible ideas:
Beginner
Minuet in F Major, K.2
Minuet in G Major, K.1
Theme from Ah vous dirai-je, Maman
Late Beginner / Early Intermediate
Sonata in C Major, K.545 (1st movement or excerpt)
Sonata in F Major, K.280 (slow movement)
Variations on Ah vous dirai-je, Maman (selected variations)
Intermediate
Sonata in A Major, K.331 (Theme & variations excerpt)
Sonata in C Major, K.330 (1st movement excerpt)
Sonata in B-flat Major, K.333 (slow movement)
You can also choose:
A movement from a Mozart sonata
A set of variations
Or just 8–16 bars of something you love.
This Week’s Goal
Choose your piece
Post it in this thread
If you’d like, share a short video or recording of your starting point
Even a rough first reading is perfect. It gives you something to build from over the coming weeks.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone chooses.
Let’s make March full of Mozart. 🎹
13 replies
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I’m learning Mozart’s Andante in C Major. This will be my classical-era piece for the Minnesota Music Teachers Association level 5 piece.
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I am learning the first movement of Sonata no. 7 in C major, K 309.
This is one of my favorite versions:
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I'm learning the third movement, Allegretto grazioso, from the Sonata nº 13 in B flat major K 333. It reminds of many Mozart concerto finales, I like its playful character and theatrical dialogue.
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I'm selecting from the more accessible early intermediate list, but as I've played the first movement of Sonata in C K545 before, I've decided to give myself something new to learn & I'm going to have a go at the 2nd & 3rd movements. Perhaps it'll be too much, & I won't get to a recordable standard doing both, but I will enjoy the challenge nevertheless!
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My eldest son Noah on violin and myself on piano are working on the first movement of Sonata for violin and piano in E minor K304
as well we hope to present first movement( or excerpt) sonata in G major K 301 with Noah on violin and my younger son Daniel on piano
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Friends, I just realized, my idea for the Liszt project came out of nowhere, and I didn't mean to sort of hijack the forum with that mega project while there is a superb Mozart challenge going on! My apologies on the bad timing. The Liszt is only in nearly 5 months, so let's focus more on Mozart for now!
Even if I won't participate in this challenge, I'm thrilled to see that you are working on bringing Mozart's heavenly piano music to life, and looking forward to watching the recording of the watch party next month!
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Working on Sonata in C major, K 545, Andante Movement, starting on measure 33. Challenging for me, but I do love this section! Can tell already I need to work on hand mechanics in the left hand.
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Initially, I chose K282. But I’ve fallen in love with K475. So many beautiful pieces, so little time.
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I'm playing Sonata in C Major, K.330, I've started learning piano about 5 years ago as an adult. I know there's quite a few mistakes and I will have to do better recording but I'm loving the live streams so here is mine (even though it is not very good ;)) . Not sure if this is how we submit the video?