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Let's dedicate this thread to the earliest pieces of our favorite piano composers. You don't have to post only the very first pieces, as long as they are among the first. Let's say, composed at age 16 or younger. I find some of them very charming.
I learnt Mozart's Minuet in G, K1 a few months after I started learning the piano at 10 (OK, I was - and still am - a slow learner ).
I felt like I'd taken a major leap to become a 'real' pianist then, because the Minuet was written by a 'real' composer, in contrast to everything I'd been taught before (which was mostly John Thompson and his very, very simplified arrangements of classical tunes....). From then on, I refused to play simplified arrangements .
Beethoven wrote three piano sonatas, WoO 47 at the age of 13. For some reason they are not included in the 32. I especially like no. 2 in f minor. The first movement reminds me of pathetique.
Working on
Chopin: op. 25 no. 11 Haydn: Sonata in in Eb Hob XVI/52 Schumann: Piano concerto 1st movement Rachmaninoff: op. 39 no. 8
Schubert First sonata in E major D. 157, 1815, composed around the age of 18. I like the second movement; it is already imbued with the typical Schubertian melancholy and lyricism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvHXhW8W8Q
Verbum, those sonatas are pretty good, especially for someone so young. I think they are fine pieces! Barry Cooper's edition includes the three WoO sonatas.
