Piano Sonata No. 1 in Eb Major

A little piano sonata originally composed in 2018. I tried touching it up a bit... I'm still not happy with it (for example I left out any dynamics except in the beginning and ending measures), and i'm publishing it still in its rough form. Here's why: I think this piece illustrates one of the main problems I face when composing, which I've mentioned before but basically is: too many ideas for multiple ways i could do things, + lack of knowledge that would guide me to choose one of those options over another. I often feel like I have no guiding forces governing the choices I make when composing, and so I end up with pieces that don't have that cohesive deliberateness indicative of someone who really knows what they're doing. Any feedback is welcome, on this piece specifically or on how I could solve this greater issue with my composing.

That being said, please enjoy 😅 I'm still quite fond of this sonata, it's got a decidedly galant sound but with my own idiosyncrasies thrown in.

It sounds very good and I identify it in that early classicism style.
I think it has good themes and a quite spectacular development.
The only thing I have to object is that the union of the sound of the virtual piano and the speed of the piece makes (for me) that the musicality is lost a little.

Greetings.

@Luis Hernández Thanks! Yeah the virtual piano is terrible lol. The speed though, do you mean you think it's a little fast?

Yes.
For my taste it is a bit fast. 
But it's a personal thing. I think the phrasing is lost a bit and the repeated notes, for example, sound totally percussive.

On 5/3/2025 at 8:39 PM, user011235 said:

That being said, please enjoy 😅 I'm still quite fond of this sonata, it's got a decidedly galant sound but with my own idiosyncrasies thrown in.

Yes its Good.....................What TEMPO-BPM.......... is that ?

6 hours ago, FILMSCORE said:

Yes its Good.....................What TEMPO-BPM.......... is that ?

 

Thankyou Luis

I didnt realize that there was a NAME for playing that fast...........so it can be done in Real-Time.

10 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

Yes.
For my taste it is a bit fast. 
But it's a personal thing. I think the phrasing is lost a bit and the repeated notes, for example, sound totally percussive.

 

I totally hear you, i think it's the midi piano creating most of those problems. But a performer could take it a few bpm slower, i wouldn't mind

Really nice!   I would just suggest more dynamic markings but otherwise if someone told me this was a lost piece by Mozart found in some dusty music library in Vienna, I'd believe them.

@bkho Ohh haha thank you, i've got a lot to learn before i'm near someone like mozart, but i appreciate the compliment nonetheless. Totally with you about the dynamics, they went through like four different iterations before i decided to cop out and leave them "up to interperetation". Maybe i'll try again

On 5/3/2025 at 8:39 PM, user011235 said:

Any feedback is welcome, on this piece specifically or on how I could solve this greater issue with my composing

If there was a way to share your Copyrighted© ...........Midi-File of your Original-Composition©

it would then be interesting to hear how it would sound via , This Classified-Alpha/Beta program im currently using for production Trax.

As at present its "never been tested primarily for Piano-Solos" even though, free-midi-files are available on line.

so it might Be quite a surprise to hear your compostion interpretated on an,

Imperial Bösendorfer 97-key grand piano