Prelude no.1

Hello! I recently got obsessed with this prelude by scriabin:

So I composed a piece trying to work with those same sweet dissonances.

It sounds ok to me, but I got some backlash because of it's sonority, so I thought maybe my treatment of suspensions and dissonances here was very poorly done.

I would love to hear how it sounds for you guys!

Thanks in advance for your attention.

Hi @Enrico,

I don't think it's very poorly done! It does have some touches of early Scriabin. That Scriabin prelude is full of upper chromatic appoggiatura and you use that well here. Maybe it's the similar motions to a fifth or octave make you feel bad bit I think it's ok since it's not a strict Baroque piece.

Thanks for sharing!

Henry

Quite like this rather modern piece, the dissonant melodies which makes this piece rather rich in quality. I'm not very familiar with Scriabin, but this explores a great fusion of Baroque and some impressionist tones, particularly the counterpoint with the dissonance.

Very creative piece of music I say. The backlash could be people not being very used to modern music, but personally this is really one outstanding piece

I had never listened to this prelude before so first of all, thank you, it was a pleasure. I'm not particularly a fan of that three-stem choice of Scriabin though, but I've seen much worse choices overall. Now, regarding your piece:

• It doesn't resemble the prelude a lot but; a bit on its essence likely because what @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu described. This is for the good of the piece in my opinion.

• I would not say that your treatment of dissonances is poorly done at all, you let the music breathe in my opinion. The starting motive of the prelude is even catchy to my taste and there's nothing in the piece that threw me off.

Overall a more than OK —in my humble opinion— work: solid and sweet indeed, just like Scriabin's one in that regard. Looking forward listening to the next one you may produce.

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.