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Without any intention of sounding smug, I daresay it did work!

If it's the Waldstein you want to play, then all I can say is don't stop until you get there!! It is my absolute favorite work of music, bar none. It had a profound effect on me when I was young, and I performed it in my mid-teens. I have since discovered and played countless other works, but none has ever taken the Waldstein's place in my heart.

Best of luck!!

One piece that's had a pretty big effect so far is Claire De Lune. I've had one girl who heard me playing it who came INTO the practice room I was in to tell me that I sounded beautiful, another at my church who as soon as I began playing that she ran over the the grand I was playing on [a beautiful Mason & Hamlin, it made Clair De Lune sound incredible] and was very, very happy that I was playing it. .
Another girl told me it's her favorite piano piece, and when I told her I can play it she was quite happy, but she's yet to actually hear me playing it, haha.

I have a friend who says that the way to meet interesting, beautiful woman, is to hang out by the Rachmaninoff CD bin at Cheapo Records in South Minneapolis. He's convinced they'll all stay up there.

Tomasino

There's a book called Twilight out that is all the rage (...frankly, I hate it, but that's just my humble opinion), and a lot of girls at my middle school think that because Debussy's Clair de Lune is played in it and they obsess over Edward Cullen (the main vampire character), that makes them have an appreciation of classical music. xD. So I suppose Clair de Lune would be popular with that sort of crowd.

From a teenage (13) girl's point of view, and I consider myself at least mildly appreciative of classical music, I would probably die if a guy played me the Fantasie Impromptu in C# Minor (Chopin) for me. It just sounds like love whenever I hear it. xD.

I've never learnt a piano piece to impress a guy -- there aren't any serious male pianists in middle school that I know about. My duetist is a guy, but we don't get along very well. Impressing him means that I've beat him in a competition, which doesn't go over very well... xD...

Anyways, I think some girls might like arrangements of Linkin Park, and I've heard requests for Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Just some random thoughts.

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why can't this thread die already??

Kinda funny how these threads seem to take off, while many others hardly make it past one page before they drop into oblivion on Page 2. :rolleyes:

My experience is that girls are mostly impressed by piano music that calls for very tricky fingering. Also, fast (double!) trills, broken (arpeggiated) chords (Un Sospiro!) and glissandos do a lot of good.

Kennessy
Is that avatar a Memling?

Thanks! Even though I can't play it very well now due to my limited technical ability, every day I should play through some of it so that I don't forget it. I've memorized everything up until the recapitulation. Hopefully as my technique improves over the next couple of years, it will become easier to play.

I wonder how much the ladies like the 3rd movement of the Appassionata? Probably not many. It's a little too dark and scary.

For what it's worth, the recap isn't too bad except for the runs at the end of the first movement - after all that energy used in the first part of the movement, Beethoven won't let you reach the finish line without some extra effort! :rolleyes:

I've looked at the recap of the Waldstein, and for the most part, it's almost exactly the same as the exposition. The main difference is that it's in E instead of B, with a few note changes scattered around. The coda looks like it could be tricky with all of those 16th note runs.

The majority of the 3rd movement looks very difficult. Especially playing the melody while trilling with the same hand.

haha

That's how I feel about it too. The hardest parts of the first movement I think are the coda that you mentioned and the second half of the development. waldstein11448998 is correct in thinking that the third movement contains the most troublesome passages.

Count Ferdinand von Waldstein must have been a heck of a ladies man.

You need to play well enough to earn a ton of money...then the girls will follow guaranteed...

Oh, so your suggesting Beethoven Op. 129?

Rage Over the Lost Penny, or Rage Against the Machine ?

I think the ladies would go crazy either way.

A little too intense...

Hey, with the piece of the duel you mentioned in another thread you should be able to get some girls saying what the Chinese girls were saying in that clip .