Symphonic Fugue in B minor - Episode 4 (Orchestration)

My dear fellow composers, after some weeks of quiescence, I’m presenting to you today my first attempt at orchestrating an existing composition for a full symphony orchestra.

The „sketch“ I have chosen is a composition of my own, a huge six-part quadruple fugue for piano in B minor, from which I picked the fourth episode being a transitional section between the development sections.

I especially love that section for its modulations, its slow arpeggios and the interwoven voice leading, which finally leads to a calming point on a diminished seventh chord before starting the next fast development section.

As I have no experience in orchestration for an entire ensemble, all kinds of feedback are appreciated. During the last few months, I thoroughly followed the excellent reviews of @MK_Piano on orchestrated scores, so that I hopefully got around with the most obvious pitfalls due to its help. However, there are a number of open questions remaining.

I hope, you’ll enjoy the piece.

Wieland

Episode4-Symphonic-Fugue-B-minor.pdf

To give some background to the work, here my immediate repost, where I share the piano score and the piano rendition of the excerpted fourth episode from the original fugue.

Comments and questions about the piece are welcome.

Episode4-Fugue-B-minor.pdf