Pieces to be prepared for the first round:
( playing time max. 40 minutes )

1. One of the sonatas by J. Haydn or W. A. Mozart or one of the
following sonatas by L. v. Beethoven: Op.2/1, 2,3, op.7, op. 10/1,
2,3, op.13, op. 14/1, op.22, op. 26, op 27/1,2, op 28, op.31/1,2,
3, op.78.


2. Two Etudes, one of which by Chopin (Works excluded see below.)
and one by Liszt or Rachmaninov or Debussy or Skrjabin or Ligeti .

3. A piece of music composed after 1970 (own compositions being
excluded)



Pieces to be prepared for the second round:
(playing time max. 60 minutes)

4. A sonata for piano by Franz Schubert (Works excluded see below.)

5. An opus or a cycle or a group of works of a min. of 20 minutes
playing time, composed between 1825 and 1950.

For the first and second round exclusively original works are admissible, adaptations will not be accepted.

Pieces to be prepared for the third round:
(playing time max.70 minutes)

6. A program at your free choice, including one opus composed prior to
1750.
7. A composition especially ordered for the Bremen Piano Contest 2007
of approx. 8 minutes playing time which will be made available to
the contestants in July 2007 together with the certificate of
admission to the Contest.

Pieces to be prepared for the Finale:
(with orchestral accomaniment):


8. One of the following piano concertos:

Beethoven - Concerto No.3 c-Moll/Concerto No.4 G-Dur/Concerto No.5 Es-DurChopin - Concerto No. 2 f-Moll
Liszt - Concerto No. 1 Es-Dur
Mozart - Concerto KV 271 Es-Dur / Concerto KV 466 d-Moll / Concerto KV 467 C-Dur / Concerto KV 482 Es-Dur / Concerto KV 491 c-Moll
Rachmaninow - Concerto No. 2 c-Moll
Schumann - Concerto a-Moll
Tchaïkovski - Concerto No. 1 b-Moll




Exclusion is being made of the following works:

Chopin - the three Etudes without opus number as
well as Etude opus 10 No. 6.
Schubert - Sonatas D 157, D 279, D 459, D 557, D 566, D 840 .



The contest program must be played from memory.
(except for the composition especially composed for the Contest and to be played during the 3rd round)

Participants are kindly requested to inform us about their precise time data of their contest program (including those in relation to the individual movements)!