Prelude No. 1

This is my first real completed composition. As a young composer, I look forward to your feedback.The recording is myself playing it on an unweighted midi keyboard. I needed to do this in order to demonstrate the rubato feel, though I am not a piano player so please forgive the few mistakes. I would really like some input on what needs to be done to the score to match the playing, in terms of tempo marks etc. I fear that based on the score alone, there is a lot left up to interpretation.

Prelude No. 1

I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. At first, I had thought that perhaps you had too many ideas here but then after I read the subtitle "Fantaisie Sur un Thème d'Amour" - it made sense! This is quite an impressive first work I look forward to hearing more from you. Thanks so much for sharing this.

This is nice.

It's certainly not 'early 20th century' in style though -- more like early 19th century, a la Beethoven / Mendelssohn.

You do a lot of things well and tastefully here. What I suggest for now is that you try to expand your harmonic palette. The most interesting harmony in your piece is a diminished 78th... there are many, many more possibilities you could be exploring.

Look into neapolitan sixth chords, augmented sixth chords (all three types), half-diminished, ninth chords, and added-note chords (where you take a triad and add a 2nd, 6th, or 7th, for example).

I'm interested to see what you'd write with this expanded tonal palette.

Thank you so much for the kind words!

I was thinking the exact same thing about the tonal pallete. I plan on making this a set of 3 preludes for piano, and I want to bring back themes from this piece in a more tormented sort of way. I'm interested to try out these new chords, thanks for the suggestion!

This is a really great piece. Plain old composers who compose for piano fail greatly, but pianists/composers who write for piano succeed magnificently. This is great to listen to and, I think I'll recommend this piece to my piano teacher. I'll give this a 10/10 and add to my favorites. Keep up the great work.

*Continuing my last comment, you may not be a pianist but you are one of the rare gems in music that can really write for piano. You have inspired me to write more piano music. Thank You.

I could not even tell there were any mistakes, so you played excellently :phones:

Like Jason said, at first I thought that there were too many ideas in the piece, and later felt somewhat differently by the end. The piece is genuinely very enjoyable, but you do need to explore each part just a little more fully. The melody is so close to being a powerful hook, but it kind of hovers around instead of sticking in the listener's mind...the rhythmic scherzo-like jarring is so close to really accenting the flowing feel of the rest of the piece, but it's put in slightly awkward places...this piece is really a huge diamond in the rough. With just a little polish, I would stick this right in my favorite's list as well :nod:

Really fantastic work! Thanks for sharing with us :D

Welcome to Young Composers: I hope you also offer your thoughts/criticisms on others' hard-worked pieces on the site, so that they can benefit from that as well. And they may return the favor! :)

Compared to my first, this is far more superior, sort of the level I write now. Good effort!!! Keep up the good work!!!

the piece is composed well, but attention to the form! even if the piece is a prelude to the development of ideas should be more consistent, the recovery section is too narrow, too elusive for the introduction ...

you recompose the piece using the ideas and improve coordination