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I really appreciate the kind words from all of you so far. Just like everyone here, I 'm also striving to improve my skills and hearing such positive feedback from other talents composers like you all means a lot and I hope my feedback in the future can be of some value to you as well.
I guess it might be worthwhile for me to give some context to some of the pieces here.
The Sonata Movement and the Wanderer's Nachtlied were both for a music theory class in college. The Sonata Movement was meant to emulate the style of C.P.E. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti and is a typical tight sonata form. The Wanderer's Nachtlied was an attempt to emulate Schubert's style and is set to a text by Goethe.
The Violin Sonata is heavily inspired by Brahms. I finished that movement quite awhile ago and have a second and third movement in the works but unfortunately I've been stuck on them for awhile. I'll probably put them up in the other forum for some advice.
The Requiem is, in part, my way of trying to come to terms with the unfortunate events going on in the world today since 9/11. The Dies Irae and the Lacrimosa are the only finished movements right now but this is the piece I'm most actively working on.
The Fugue in D minor, Double Violin Sonata mvts 1 and 3 come from an early period when I was just totally in love with Bach when I was in my early years in college. The first movement is heavily influenced by the Bach double violin concerto. The String Suite piece was also during this time, more an attempt to write a set of movement similar to Dvorak's Slavonic dances (of course I only managed to finish one).
The Scherzo I wrote extremely quickly which is very rare for me; I wrote it in 2 days, just as a virtuosic show piece. I was fortunate to have a friend of mine who is an accomplished violinist read through it one time with the university orchestra... unfortunately it apparently is almost unplayable at that tempo so I'll probably have to edit the solo violin part at some point. I wrote the Fantasy for Viola around the same time (I was a violist in the orchestra); kind of my humble attempt to add to the limited viola repetoire. I've always felt that the viola is an exceedingly underrated instrument.
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