Strings excerpt

Hi! Today i'd like to share with you a small part of bigger work. It's intended to be romanticism styled. I know about variety of instruments used in this epoque and here are just strings, but at this moment, is it good? Harmony is clear, or unnecessarily complicated? Is there's too much/lack of tension?

And how about double basses used as independed voice - little bit too risky? Better to keep violoncellos divisi and left them this voice? Or change double bass to bass clarinet?

Originally i wrote on grand staff for piano, melody and harmonized it, but while translating into strings i've changed some things.

In advance thank you for any feedback.

score2.pdf piano.pdf

That sounds lovely. And well-balanced.

I think that in a chamber music setting like this, the double basses can have their own independence at certain moments and in certain phrases. That’s how the great Romantic (or post-Romantic) composers did it.

I think this is lovely romantic writing. When we use "romantic" to describe a composition, it reflects a style. Many think...romantic period has it is own harmony. Romantic composers use the harmony as classic ones. It "how" they use it. It also in part writing, lines for fluid and lyrical!

That is why @Luis Hernández when I say: let the double bass more melodic and fluid. It is just not used as a pedal. It can create tonal color.