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FYI, Classical Period Proper is by a nose the BEST period in music, and really if you think about it, the farthest we should ever have gone in technology in general. It becomes unsustainable...

GOTT IM HIMMEL! My YouTube channel has compositions I wrote in college and grad school in 1987-1993, and they have some good ideas, but my compositions improved after I jumped off that Ivory Tower. Some drunken Rock covers...

Because I'm at work right now I'll check it later. I subscribed to your channel already my dear friend

Well, me: can't play piano at all! Well, a simple thing like that Chopin E Minor prelude or the accompaniment to Schumann's Ich Grolle Nicht aus Dichterliebe, 1840 I could play if I practiced for a few hours, but it still wouldn't be very good. I guess the best instrument I play is Electric Bass, and I'm far from the best!

Hi ... the English Horn is in F it is not a C instrument. Did you transpose the part? As written it cannot be played ... the English is scaled to a low Bb similarly to the Oboe. Mark

Thank you very much. I don’t know any other instruments besides the piano, but ever since I was a child—since my adolescence and up to this day—I have listened only to classical music, especially from the Baroque to the Romantic era. I love the Classical period the most, and as the years went by, studying all these works, I became one with them. With a little talent, some musical perception, and my musical instinct, I gathered the courage to begin timidly composing. The most daring work I wrote is the Divertimento for winds, and you know very well how difficult and how different it is. In that piece, I did most of my work; it took time and filled me with much anxiety, but I enjoyed it once the result satisfied me.

Damn, five measures or so is enough to tell me you know already how to write for strings. I could probably teach you something about double-stops and chords, but not much else. As the Germans say, Kein Problem! I'll listen to the rest later. You are a fine Neoclassical composer.

Oh, I guess my favorite violin concerto is either Tchaikovsky's or Mendelssohn's.

Well, who wrote perfectly for violin; Paganini? Violinist, play it! Liszt for piano? Even world-class pianists have to leave out a note or two.

I love Beethovens violin concerto. Actually is my favourite violin concerto. 🙂 Ok I'll post my 2 minuets here if you want to check and let me know .

Sure, post one! Even MY favorite composer, Beethoven, could not always write perfectly for violin, so of course I can't either. His violin concerto is a masterpiece, but has too many scales and arpeggios.

Thank you so much, my dear friend, for your willingness. For the time being, it’s not necessary, because I don’t really have the luxury of time to dedicate to it. With two small children and work, the time I have for composing is extremely limited. At most, I have 2 hours, and those are at midnight. In the meantime, I’ve written two minuets for string quartet and a divertimento for winds, again in a Mozartian style. If you’d like, I can post them and you can tell me your opinion. For a first attempt, I did quite well—it was a respectable effort.

And you say you love chamber music but are scared because you feel you are unfamiliar with the instruments as compared to piano, which you play very well and tastefully? I could teach you to write for violin in an afternoon, with both of us sharing a few beers! Guitar is harder, but I keep writing guitar music anyway.

Thank you so much my dear friend. I'm so glad that you like it 🙏

Good Lord, but you can write a waltz, a good one I mean! Highlight of my morning so far.

A drum band in the streets some dancing an a guy with an electric guitar

I don't really know what's considered virtuosic in the bassoon? Maybe lots of big rapid leaps across the register break? Apparently Vivaldi wrote 39 bassoon concerti! So they may be a good place to start for inspiration. Meanwhile I've added some new material for the bassoon, so it's more prominent. Not quite sure what to do with the new coda? Maybe it could be longer; or perhaps keep it short and sweet?

Corrections have been made, both on this regard and the counterpoint of the coda. Thank you both kindly for pointing it out.

In fact, I am not! I was considered as a child prodigy even by my teachers though.

Thought I would share this as an ongoing project. I will be jumping into the development section soon. This is my first serious work for full scale orchestra. As many will know from my other work I tend to focus on chamber music. I hope it is engaging (I have been experimenting a little how I can keep the listener on edge with sudden, unexpected harmonic shifts and contrasting dynamics).

Well, this is a nice piece! Not my usual cup of tea, but I like it anyway. Are you Asian? Don't mean to be racial; we are all human! Just sounds that way, pentatonic. Orchestration very good.

Well, that sounds like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; a German singing in French. I'm sure he had some French, probably more than me, mon tres cher ami! Of course, the pronunciation is correct: He was a musician, after all!😆

I only listened to so far the first few measures of each, and all I can say so far is that both will be competent compositions! I can look at a score even without trying to hear it in my head and tell just by the layout if the counterpoint, part writing is correct, after 38 years of writing music. This is no criticism of you by any means, but the unnatural exaggeration of dynamics in music software programs is one of the reasons that while my paper manuscripts have dynamics, expression marks, and bowings for string instruments, etc, I never mess with these when I enter music into my site, Noteflight. I will revisit these, my interest is perked. You are obviously trained.

The low A is not present on the Oboe .... You can score it for Oboe D'Amore which has a low A in the scale or as been said English Horn. Maark

You could try musescore. It allows you to write 'interpretations' by hiding notes. You could also have it really plain by not adding anything. Controls are all simple. It is also completely free. The layout could be changed. Sadly, It is laggy when you write over 500 bars for me.