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👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
24
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
156htotal est.
3hard segments
* Assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
72
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
1,147
Total Notes
60%
Interleaved
7.5
Avg N/Beat
14
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎭 Emotional Character
Bright and open, like sunlight through a window — patient, letting each moment settle, steady and unwavering in tone.
🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH
Lower dot = LH
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required
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📐 Note Range per Hand
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | F1 |
| Highest | C6 |
| Span | 55 st (4Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 942 |
| Widest leap | 43 st |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | G3 |
| Highest | E6 |
| Span | 33 st (2Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 205 |
| Widest leap | 24 st |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 48 st (48 st)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3 notes · 307 chords
⚠️ 87 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 st (M6)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 27 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 11 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
3%
Repeated
Only 1 of 39 bars repeat — largely through-composed.
Repeated bar
Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages ?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures scored by note density and interval leaps. The hardest are recommended for focused practice.
Spend extra time on these passages before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 8–9
Hardest
📍 Measures 22–23
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 24–25
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin on piano?
Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin is rated Expert with a score of 72/100. Composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. Expert-level repertoire.
How long does it take to learn Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin?
Approximately 24 weeks (~156 total hours) for a expert level student.
What piano level is required to play Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin?
Suited for Expert level pianists (score 72/100). Polished technique, high note density stamina, and expressive control required.
What is the mood or feel of Shostakovich Romance (From The Gadfly) Piano & Violin?
Bright and open, like sunlight through a window — patient, letting each moment settle, steady and unwavering in tone. Played at 60 BPM.
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