Romantic Piano Short | Liszt & Chopin Inspired Music

Hey Guys,

I hope you are doing well. I really like composers from the Romantic era, like Chopin or Liszt, and I wanted to create a piece of music in that style. Did I nail the feel, or not? Feel free to share what you think! Thanks!

Hey @olivercomposer!

Nice piano piece!  I don't think it's very Chopinesque or Lisztian - but it certainly sounds like Oliver Kovacs!  I think your chord progressions are very unique to you and to your by now well defined cinematic style of composing!  If you wanted to make it more Chopinesque you could have included more rubato and long drawn-out roulades or fioraturas.  Liszt's piano technique is also quite a bit more difficult.  But I really enjoyed this piece of music!  Thanks for sharing!

6 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hey @olivercomposer!

Nice piano piece!  I don't think it's very Chopinesque or Lisztian - but it certainly sounds like Oliver Kovacs!  I think your chord progressions are very unique to you and to your by now well defined cinematic style of composing!  If you wanted to make it more Chopinesque you could have included more rubato and long drawn-out roulades or fioraturas.  Liszt's piano technique is also quite a bit more difficult.  But I really enjoyed this piece of music!  Thanks for sharing!

 

Thanks for your comment, it helped a lot! The roulades and fioraturas are good ideas!

I rewrote the piece a bit, added some ornaments, tempo changes, and a few runs. I think this version feels more like it could’ve come from the Romantic era. What do you think?

8 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hey @olivercomposer!

Nice piano piece!  I don't think it's very Chopinesque or Lisztian - but it certainly sounds like Oliver Kovacs!  I think your chord progressions are very unique to you and to your by now well defined cinematic style of composing!  If you wanted to make it more Chopinesque you could have included more rubato and long drawn-out roulades or fioraturas.  Liszt's piano technique is also quite a bit more difficult.  But I really enjoyed this piece of music!  Thanks for sharing!

 

I rewrote the piece a bit, added some ornaments, tempo changes, and a few runs. I think this version feels more like it could’ve come from the Romantic era. What do you think?

7 hours ago, olivercomposer said:

I rewrote the piece a bit, added some ornaments, tempo changes, and a few runs. I think this version feels more like it could’ve come from the Romantic era. What do you think?

 

 

 

Hi there! Nice piece. 

Critique here.

So anyways, make it more difficult and virtuostic. add fast octaves, fast runs, octave glissandos, octave grace notes. chords, and key changes. Don't miss out on tempo changes like in the following way either: Change to dominant with ritarlando, then faster tempo, something like tempo de marcia. Then you can in someway come back to this first theme, or do something else. It is fully your own choice.

You could have a clear theme at the start like you had, and 'secretly' bringing the theme back in someway later. (e.g. left hand octaves with the theme while the right plays fast runs or fast arpeggios or something).

Try using more contrasts, like from piano, to sforzando.

Also, lastly, try avoiding the dominant at the very start. Try first developing the theme, and then going to the dominant. 

Anyways, good job, and keep on composing!

Hi again @olivercomposer!

I think with the way you're using the ornaments and little trills here and there, to me it sounds more Baroque now!  LoL

17 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hi again @olivercomposer!

I think with the way you're using the ornaments and little trills here and there, to me it sounds more Baroque now!  LoL

 

But I invented the baromantic style. There's nothing wrong with that! I'm an innovator...

46 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hi again @olivercomposer!

I think with the way you're using the ornaments and little trills here and there, to me it sounds more Baroque now!  LoL

 

Anyway, jokes aside, maybe I’m just being ignorant, but lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Baroque music, and the trills in those pieces sounded more like groups of four sixteenths or thirty-seconds rather than triplets, the way I used them, or sometimes they had an even more intricate structure. But I could be wrong about that. To me, my piece doesn’t sound particularly Baroque, neither melodically nor harmonically. I actually feel it’s more Romantic than Baroque, though it’s true that it’s not really Chopin-like or Liszt-like either. Does it remind you of the Baroque style? Which part exactly? Thanks again!

3 minutes ago, olivercomposer said:

Does it remind you of the Baroque style? Which part exactly?

In the beginning and throughout the piece you set a consistent mood, which for me makes it sound like VGM.  But then the way you use rhythms and ornaments from 0:46 on makes it sound more Baroque to me.

3 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

In the beginning and throughout the piece you set a consistent mood, which for me makes it sound like VGM.  But then the way you use rhythms and ornaments from 0:46 on makes it sound more Baroque to me.

 

I think it's a pretty good piece of music, so I'm satisfied with the result... 😄 It seems that blatantly copying someone's style is not my real superpower at all... Thanks again!