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Not a bad a work. I'll comment on details later. There were a few things that sounded somewhat strange for my taste. I'll tell you later where exactly were those parts. So far, it's a pretty nice job.

Absolutely brilliant piece. Thanks for sharing. Would be really fun to see it played in live.

Hi again, I was just curious about the kind of inspiration that lead your composition process. I've always felt intrigued about how certain composers can make people feel emotions, or even draw pictures into people minds through their music. Say composers as: John Williams,Danny Elfman, much older composers as Dukas, Mahler, Prokofiev or even Beethoven. I feel that eventually your might want to become a film composer, and its quite interesting see how you develop your ideas, or how's your appreciation of music that make you write to like this. Well, yes. I think it is not a bad idea to annotate the feelings that comes along with your musical ideas. Regards,

I liked this quite a lot. It fits perfectly for a suspense movie. What you had in mind when you composed this ?.

This sounds as if you were discovering that musical notes exist, and you were experimenting to find out if you'd ever make them work for something..... and you did: You could grab the attention of a few naive listeners to make laugh some of them, and tick others off. Well, go ahead, and keep doing so until either you find something better to spend your life with (something far less sad, preferably) or they definitely ban you off. And with all due respect to Mr. Sachs, you're right, it is somewhat fool to require a score of this from you.

Reminded me a little fugue from Haendel. Hm !!. Not a bad work, when you can compare it to one of Haendel's. ha ha ha !!!. Very nice job, man.

All the works are simply outstanding. You make a beautiful treatment of the pianos. Very virtuosistic and plenty of ideas. Certainly, one might feel a little bit from Gershwin in your "duende theme". Regarding the themes, I don't think that's much of the same. You show a lot of contrasting ideas, but I admit that obfuscation with virtuosity could make them feel somewhat monotonous. I don't know if you said it already, or suggested it, or you expect one to take it for granted, but I don't see any of these works as anything than etudes. Is that what you intended ?, They're certainly amazing works, but they all felt as exercises to me, and not real finished music works. Well, this is just a modest opinion. I'm far from being a professional musician, and even further from being a real composer. I just write music for fun, and I'm mostly unable to appreciate properly some of the heavy-weight works that some highly skilled composers use to post here. But I can't get rid from feeling that these are works for very advanced students (piano players and piano composers alike), but not necessarily for exhibition purposes. Maybe you meant that by saying "undeveloped". I apologize if that's the case, but as a non-native english speaker, and I might (and do) miss some of the real significations of certain expressions. By the way, keep up the good work. bye.

Very very funny. but not a bad one. Hmmm. I wouldn't call it impromptu. The "etude" fits good to me. I can't tell you much. Cool music.

Wow !!!. What a beautiful inspiration !!!. Absolutely lovely for my taste. You've got beautiful variations on the string section. Though, there are sometimes that arpeggios in the piano turn rather annoying. I don't think that the orchestration need that much work, most issues here could be fixed only adjusting the dynamics of each part along to achieve a proper balance. Task for which a vst synth/sampler, might not be quite accurate or helpful. I think that David's got a point when speaks about the leaps in the arpeggios. Not pretty sure about the usefulness of looking at Liszt's or Chopin's Etudes, considering this one does not really demand the skills to play those etudes. In the case of looking at Rachmaninoff's concertos, I'd say it could enrich your ideas to use other resources than arpeggios, and perhaps develop a little bit more the interaction between the piano and the orchestra, issue for I should say - except for all the parts where piano's arpeggios become annoying - its quite plenty already. This is just is you ever think about rewriting it. Beyond that, Beautiful work. Considering it's been sometime since you posted this work, have you uploaded it completed and revised ? or the web issue does still bother? Regards,

I like your work pretty much. It is certainly desirable that you could post the score some time later. Sincerely, I thinks its a great job. Now, about your play. I think you might improve the articulation of your scales and arpeggios, specially in the right hand. Sometimes they tend to sound somewhat choppy. I think that you have to work in your play a bit, to make it sound loose and clean. Beyond that, if I'm allowed to say so, this is a work that deserves to be written and posted. Excellent work !. <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" alt=":)" />

Hi. It's an excellent and lovely work. Not so sure about how "unique" your textures might be (I felt kind of acquainted to them already), but there's certainly a kind of "Mojsiejenka sound" in approach, as to say so. As been said, "very well thought out". Congratulations.

Man, This is a great job. If I'm allowed to use this word, as I'm not native english-speaker: it's "delicious". I think that you might have made it a bit longer, because it's captivating. This is a professional work.

"The captiving effect of this piece rely mostly upon the talent of this very promising cellist". Desde luego, pero la pieza es una belleza por sí misma. (Indeed, but music is quite beautiful by itself).

Hi Stefan, Here's the comment I told you I was going to post. Considering, the time you've got studying music, I'd sincerely say you write good works. I encourage you to keep studying, you're quite talented. I enjoyed the Fanfare very much, but I still feel it has a very abrupt ending. It feels as it is cutted or unfinished. In the score, you do not need to write "moderato" for every single instrument, unless you're transcribing particellas, which is not the case. As you've been told already, MIDI doesnt help that much with the final quality of music. If you get chance, try to get a library you can attach to your Finale or whatever software you use, to get better sounds. Thing with MIDI is - in comparison with today standards (VST,DXi, among others) - that takes away a lot of the feel you might want put on your music, and does not contribute to make it enjoyable. Although I consider rough, to judge your music by the media used produce it instead of the music itself, it is highly recommended that you may get a nice patches library. Of course, the fact that you cant get one now, shouldn't prevent you to keep composing. Well, I couldnt understand the "reprise", I couldn't get the theme nor the intention of it. As you've declared you're still working on it, I'll wait until you post to entire work finished, to tell you a more accurate opinion. Keep it on, man. You're already a striving musician. Regards.