Unlike romantic/modern pieces which generally have a wide use of pedalling.

What are your views on classical pieces?

ie, mozart and so on.

My teacher says Mozart pieces shouldn't have too much pedalling.

Any idea on the pedalling for clasical pieces?

I think that this question is similar to the question should one play Bach on the piano; after all he did write his music for harpsichord.

The pedal was invented during the classical period and begun life being operated by the knees raising it (it wasn't a pedal in the same position as the current one obviously!) so Mozart wrote most of his music without the pedal being invented in the modern sense, and of course even if some pianos had these early pedals, others wouldn't have. For an authentic classical, 'as it would have been then performance' perhaps not; but you'd also have to take the engineering of your piano backwards a few hundred years too! If you feel that using the pedal enhances the music you're playing then do it; but don't overdo it otherwise your knee will get tired ; on a more serious note your playing may sound too 'inauthentic' if that makes sense (in the same way that you would be heavily criticised if it sounded overly romantic in other ways (e.g. too much rubato)).

What a detailed non-answer to the question!

I am playing a song by Beethoven for my exam this year and as for pedalling, I don't use it very often, but in a few important areas I do use it to make a big chord seem slightly more highlighted. This especially goes for those chords that are too big for my hands...

Generally what I'm saying is that pedalling should be used to slightly echo a few chords that you think are important to the piece. In my piece the last five chords are all humungous, loud, and final chords that go very well with the pedal.

My teacher says if its a 3 beat bar, you probably pedal for the first beat or - places where u feel might need the pedal.

i believe the piano during the romantic period was much different thus the difference in use of pedals for the pieces. (diploma topic?)

However I feel pedalling does enhance the piece! Improvisation (200 years late) to the classical period on our own!

As for bach, this is the reason why we play his partitas/inventions/so on.. with the short stacattos and broken chords. its to imitate the sound of the harpsichord/keyboard during his time.