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I just finished the first movement of a new sonata. Here is the sound file and the score. The motif (the first 7 bars) of this movement has been in my head for quite a long time, and I could not get rid of it. It kept popping up all the time, so I had to do something with it. There may still be some errors in the score, and I would be grateful if you could review it. I am of course curious to find out what you think of this piece.. Best regards.

This is something I started working on yesterday. It's inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story of "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". Each movement represents a different aspect of the story. I'm planning on it having seven movements in total and will update as I go (hopefully with scores). My intention is to keep each movement around 3 minutes and each one will be written in triple time (I don't write in triple time often, so it's a good challenge).

This is great and your playing throughout is so sensitive, it really does credit to the piece! I think the staccatos in the opening section work really well. (Ex. M. 22) I would love to see some more dynamics written in around bar 32. That section seems ripe for big contrast between the mini phrases. I just got to bar 92, and thought, "oh, good! It's about time to play with tempo!" You do an excellent job of picking the right moment to change the character of the piece. I might have hinted at the right hand subject matter at measure 123 a little earlier in the piece though, if it was mine. It makes a good contrast. A sneak peak of even half a bar somewhere would have made the listener sit up and listen if it interjected earlier. Measure 160: ooh!! Part of me wishes that this had crashed to a more sudden stop. Thunder, thunder, thunder... two bars of still repose to remind us of the stately character where we started. This is really excellent. Congratulations and thank you so much for sharing it with the community here!

Hello everyone! This is a bit different from what I have shared so far. In fact, it is the transcription almost not at all elaborated of a piano piece improvised many years ago. My wife says it makes her think of the dawn in africa, so I'll call it "Dawn" even tho in my files it's a "Quintetto." 🙂 For the whole piece, the beat should stay the same, even though the time changes quite often. There is not much interplay between the different instruments, in fact I picked them only for color. Suggestions and critiques always superwelcome. Maybe I'll try and imitate @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu and record and post the piano version if I'm not too rusty.Quintetto clean - Full Score.pdf