Adagio for Pianoforte in A major op. 146

Adagio per Pianoforte in La maggiore op. 146

This is a slow movement I wrote on August 8th, 2007.

It has got two main themes and other small sections that link together the main ideas plus an area where there would be a cadence, which is not present in this recording but can either be improvised on the spot or just written on occurrence.

Adagio for Pianoforte in A major op. 146

I love it! Sounds very Italian. Very Mozartian. I also loved the Fortepiano, was this recorded on two instruments? One is more like the modern piano where as the other one sounds very much like a haprsichord. Not much else to say, you have lovely melodies. I would suggest you compose a sonata around it and maybe condense the piece a little.

Well done!

A little physical impossibility: There's no sustain pedal in the real harpsichord. Good job, though! There aren't many on YC, that have composed for harpsichord.

Thank you very much!

No it is not an harpsichord, it is a fortepiano. At the time each fortepiano maker had its own sound, so, some fortepianos sounded more bright and other sounded a bit more muddy, but in general that was it.

For example in the same period of the late 18th century, in england, fortepianos made by Clementi, sounded more round and "dark" quite more near the sound of today rather then the ones in vienna had a more bright sound. Just a little example.

Here you have the moderator, which is a little piece of cloth that goes on the strings and makes it a very soft sound, and it is actioned by a lever on the middle of the keyboard, when you take it off it puts on the cloth, when you push it in, it takes it off, and under the keyboard there are the damper and resonator which are activated by the knee.

So this is why you hear the difference from one part to the other. :)

I have got some sonatas for piano as well, didn't post them yet, will post soon ;)

Next to this I will post an allegro I wrote in september 2007 almost a month after this adagio, and there I use another pianoforte.