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INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
CARL MARIA VON WEBER 6.–13. October 2024

INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
CARL MARIA VON WEBER 6.–13. October 2024

 

Category IV


Participants born after 06.10.1999

1st Round (15-20 minutes)

  1. S. Bach: One Prelude and Fugue from the ”Well-Tempered Clavier” Book I or II

  2. A virtuoso Etude by Chopin or Liszt (excluding Études pour le piano en douze exercices) or Bartók or Saint-Saëns or Debussy or Rachmaninov or Scriabin or Prokofiev or Stravinsky or Ligeti or comparable

  3. A selection of works by Carl Maria von Weber:
    6 Variations sur l‘air de Naga de ‚Samori‘ op.6 or 7 Variations on „Vien quà, Dorina bella“ op. 7 or 7 Variations on an Original Theme op. 9 or Grande polonaise op. 21 or Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major op. 24 or 7 Variations on “A peine au sortir de l’enfance” op. 28 or 9 Variations op. 40 or Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major op. 39 or Piano Sonata 3 in D minor op. 49 or 7 Variations on a Gipsy Song op. 55 or Rondo brillante op. 62 or Invitation to the Dance op. 65 or Polacca brillante op. 72 or Piano Sonata No. 4 in E minor op. 70 (single movements of the sonatas are admitted)

2nd Round (30-40 minutes)

  1. A sonata or the first movement of the sonata (one sonata-allegro movement) by Haydn or Mozart or Beethoven (excluding op. 49) or Schubert

  2. One or more works or single movements from the Baroque period up to the present

3rd Round – Final Round

  1. One  of the  following  piano concertos has to be  prepared for the final with the Hochschulsinfonieorchester conducted by Prof. Ekkehard Klemm:

    Carl Maria von Weber: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 11 or Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 32 or Konzertstück (Concert Piece) in F minor, J.282, Op. 79 or Clara Schumann: Piano concerto in A minor, Op. 7 or Robert Schumann: Piano concerto in A minor, Op. 54 or Frédéric Chopin: Piano concerto No. 1 E minor, Op. 11