Symphony #3 in A major

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard... you are incredible O_O

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it! :D

I'm gonna share a thought that I heard in this piece; not sure if anyone else heard it (I didn't read the whole thread).

This was Mozart. No doubt. But it was the Mozart of the 45th or 47th symphony. It felt like a classical composer urging himslef to break free from the classical model. As I read your story J. Lee, that is how it went down. Interesting.

One personal thing, the quote from Eine Kliene Nachtmusik, whether intentional or not, really annoyed me because of my sheer abhorance for the piece. But that was a personal thing.

I'm gonna share a thought that I heard in this piece; not sure if anyone else heard it (I didn't read the whole thread).

This was Mozart. No doubt. But it was the Mozart of the 45th or 47th symphony. It felt like a classical composer urging himslef to break free from the classical model. As I read your story J. Lee, that is how it went down. Interesting.

One personal thing, the quote from Eine Kliene Nachtmusik, whether intentional or not, really annoyed me because of my sheer abhorance for the piece. But that was a personal thing.

Do you mean 40th or 41st? I'm not familiar with his 45th or 47th symphonies are those posthumous?

Do you mean 40th or 41st? I'm not familiar with his 45th or 47th symphonies are those posthumous?

No. I was meaning Symphonies Mozart would have written if he lived longer. He died so young. Had he fully developed his transition into Romanticism, we probably would have thought of him very differently in retrospect.

One personal thing, the quote from Eine Kliene Nachtmusik, whether intentional or not, really annoyed me because of my sheer abhorance for the piece. But that was a personal thing.

You mean the accompanimental figure in the finale, no doubt. That, and almost all the other material in the movement, is taken from the opening 11 measure theme; I divided it into several short motifs and developed them throughout the movement. I was aware of the resemblance to EKN, but I did my own thing with it, and it's not a direct quote.

Yes, I suppose this is Mozartean as he might have been by 1797 or so.

i like your work

good job

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Thanks! :)

I've been what I call a "Classical Revivalist" my whole life. I do dabble in other styles, most notably Baroque - convincingly enough, apparently, that I was accorded membership in Vox Saeculorum, a society of Neo-Baroque composers - but Classicism is the music of my heart. The vast majority of all my musical thoughts are in this vein. As I have often said, I might compose more contemporary-sounding music if I had more contemporary thoughts.

Basically, this is a question for any composer writing in other styles or, at least, composing after a particular composer's model. Talent or mindset in doing so is solely a question of personal empathy into the musical thinking of another composer, be he/she of our time period or of a bygone time. And, of course, a question of good knowledge of the compositional rules and metaphors of the respective composer and the time period he/she lives/lived in.

So there's no disqualification of composing in other styles if one is motivated to do so on the background of these prerequisites. Denouncing this as "pastiche"