Fruisen

Hi everyone these are some short pieces I’ve composed recently. Please comment any suggestions or errors you notice so that I may correct them and improve my abilities. Thank you very much! 🙂

Very beautiful and romantic! I especially like your use of triplets.

Very beautiful, I love the pastoral galloping sort of feel (at least that’s what I got). The chromatic opening in the melody reinforces this especially, and the modulation you use in very interesting. Based on this I’m very excited for you to publish the rest of your preludes. If I was playing this one however I would probably be inclined to go slower than the recording you’ve provided, so as the emphasize the left hand pattern a bit more and to make the rolled chords in Measure 8 and elsewhere more distinct.

I love it! Its always a pleasure to hear a new mazurka, and this one is very beautiful and idiomatic. I’m sure it would sound even better with rubato, which might smooth over Measure 15, the only part that sounded slightly unusual to me. I personally didn’t think the accompaniment was too repetitive, but I do wish it was a bit longer. Perhaps you could extend the themes a bit and repeat them, or add something like a scherzando section. That could also allow you to use a different left hand pattern if you like. Nevertheless it’s still a very good mazurka, and I hope you continue writing more of them in the future.

Thank you @Bradley Scarff and @Tónskáld that’s very kind of you! The piece is in D Major not A I made a very silly typo, but when I revise the piece I will definitely take your suggestions into account.

Hi again! I wrote this piece for fun after attending a horse race. Thank you for listening if you do! 🙂

I made some revisions after I copied the score so the audio sounds slightly different sometimes.

https://youtu.be/4mcjOHacgwE My first post in a while I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts again!

Hello, everyone. This is the first composition I have posted which is longer than eight measures in length! Though I have presented it as a Barcarolle, being as it was initially inspired by Jakob Rosenhain’s Barcarolle in A-Flat Major (Op. 68), it has largely strayed away from the lighter, calmer characteristics of that form, and is ultimately not really a coherent or performance-intended piece. I feel also that I have listened to it so many times these past few days that I can no longer tell if it sounds strange or not, which has driven me to post it in its current state. Any feedback or advice you could give would be very helpful, and I would like to thank Luis Hernández, Monarcheon, and edfgi234 for their comments on my last series of eight-measure pieces.

A very lovely piece indeed. I almost fear praising you too much, but I found that while the themes and writing in general was influenced by Chopin to some degree they were still fascinating and original. Combined with the carefree yet romantic feel you have so expertly conveyed it is certainly one of my favorite compositions of recent years, and I must admit that I have already listened to it several times. Personally, If I was performing this piece I would probably be very tempted to play the main theme from Measure 3 onwards a bit faster than the tempo you have prescribed, perhaps even more so when it returns later on, but that is only because I would be so engrossed in it’s beauty. Though it is really only a matter of personal opinion I also thought the section preceding the Adagio from Measure 38 - 41 was a bit harsh, but that takes nothing away from the fact that it is a piece I would love to see in concert one day. Bravo!

Hello, everyone. First, I’d like to thank Luis Hernández, Gustav Johnson, and bkho for their comments and advice on my last upload over a month ago. They were very much appreciated and encouraged me to continue composing. Unfortunately I have been traveling frequently since then and as such have been unable to access a piano. This has caused the difficulty of my compositions to increase rather dramatically, and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some are virtually unplayable, though I have done my best to exclude chords beyond the octave. In the same way it would also not be surprising if some are in a key different to the one in which I have written them, the major focus of these studies (or expositions) being A Flat Minor. Consider No. 11, the easiest and only one not written in this key, as an apology for any such flaws. I should also mention that I am working on pieces longer than eight measures in length, but in the meantime any feedback you could give would be greatly appreciated.

https://youtu.be/Nd9hPcYEbFw Hello, everyone. This is my first submission to the forum, and one of my first attempts at composing music. I really enjoyed writing these, and any feedback you could give would be greatly appreciated!