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My Repertoire Solo Piano: Wanderer Fantasy Op.15 by Franz Schubert Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit M.55 by Maurice Ravel Sonata No.3 in B Minor Op.58 by Frederyk Chopin Concertos: Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11 by Frederyk Chopin

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Hey thank you Peter! As you well heard, I like to adopt the sinuosity of the poem to follow its harmonic trace. This is the intention of my Laforgue cycle, staying on the edge of the tonal while losing the listener in the meanders of an impossible love. In French, Jules Laforgue's poetry constantly oscillates between poles of irony/Tenderness, or refinement/popular. This is also why I always look for a kind of balance between a song appearance in prosody and a reference to the melody more written in the tradition of French music. Thank you very much for your attentive listening!

Hey @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu! Glad to hear you managed to finish one of your juvenilia! There are many features of this composition that I really like. Many have already mentioned the Neapolitan 6th which you apparently didn't even know about at the time of writing this. I don't know if it's common to prepare the N6 with it's own dominant 7th like you have here (A7), which I really like. Also - very cool and foreshadowing use of different divisions of the beat - freely transitioning from triplets to 16th notes. Also - there's some really cool variations of the main melody in the left hand (the Meno Mosso at m. 134). The crossing of the hands to bring the melody into the bass register is also really creative. It just shows that even as a really young Henry, your musical instincts were innovative and refined. I'm surprised that upon revising this work you didn't expand the fugato section into something more substantial. It's something I keep thinking of doing for my 10 Variations on a Gypsy Theme. The fugue variation there is really stunted and incomplete too. Nice ending in C# major and with a plagal cadence. Overall, a really great piece - thanks for sharing!

Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it! I'm actually quite busy with music at the moment. I'm presently in the middle of writing music for a new horror film that will be doing the festival rounds next year, a couple short pieces for a local documentary and actually just finishing up the next album: A Gothic/Dark Orchestral album for which I actually managed to recruit some grammy-nominated string players for.

Funny!

I also support your idea of ''getting people to actually sit down and listen to the "nerdy" classical music, because it's SO GOTDAMN GOOD PEOPLE ARE MISSING OUT''. I like this idea!

I recommend also making videos on like... less known stuff? Like the Waltz B.21 by Frederyk Chopin. Or this one! Make it in to a solo piano piece! . Or try orchestrating Op. 46 Allegro de Concert by Frederyk Chopin. It was intended to be a concerto anyways...

Aw that's super sweet of youuu Thank you very much One of my goals when starting this channel was exactly that, to get people to actually sit down and listen to the "nerdy" classical music, because it's SO GOTDAMN GOOD PEOPLE ARE MISSING OUT

Dude you're perfect for youtube, and I think you reach an audience that helps people find how great "classical" music is. Your editing is great, and you're pretty funny. I'm excited to hear you mentioning your original work too, that'll be great for your channel. Awesome stuff, you've got a great personality in your videos!

I really love The Nutcracker Suite, or "Waltz of the Flowers" by Tchaikovsky to be fair, I often times am very bored in class, maybe I'll get one of those notebooks that have a staff in them, and print out a piece or two, and just sit down and write them thank you for your words of advice!

You must have orchestral pieces that you really like? Maybe even, like, film scores or musical theater scores? When I first got started soooooo long ago, I would spend hours listening, replaying, transcribing, and writing everything that I heard. And holy hell, I definitely got better because I was engaging my brain in piecing everything together. Copying note-for-note is alright (as long as you're listening alongside it), but transcribing it arguably even better. And, bonus, you get to practice transcription too! But yeah, basically, don't be so beholden to the original work, is my biggest advice. There's a reason that every collegiate composition course in the world has you take a very, very short piano miniature and orchestrate it. I remember my class took Ligeti's Musica ricercata, II., and orchestrated it. Super short, and literally only three notes. It was hard. But with practice—and creativity—it all comes together.

thank you very much! I've actually heard of this method of litterally writing down by hand existing works, and even have done it a few times, sadly I really don't think I'll have the time in the near future to write down an entire orchastral score I'd definetly go over his version and study it though, thank you for the kind comment

how is this related to ones' work?