Listen to my very first piano composition that I composed!

[chopin2256]

Hi everyone,

I posted my very first "major work" piano solo composition that I ever composed, and its on my website.  I'd like to know your feedback.  I composed more than this piece, but I have to record the others yet and put them online still.

The link to my piece is here:

https://www.recordhall.com/piano-music.html

[Nana_Ama]

I like it a lot, how long did it take you to compose it?

[Daniel_piano]

Hi everyone,

I posted my very first "major work" piano solo composition that I ever composed, and its on my website.  I'd like to know your feedback.  I composed more than this piece, but I have to record the others yet and put them online still.

The link to my piece is here:

https://www.recordhall.com/piano-music.html

I think this piece of yours if wonderful, so much pathos
I think your pieces will become even more interesting (to listeners) after listening to your other pieces because originality is found on the fact that as different in style your pieces may be they will always have that particular unique character resulting from the person you're, what you have experinced and your vision of the world
That's what I love more about music, the fact that you can always recognize the style of whatever composer (famous or not) even if one piece is romantic and the other is impressionistic, and I love each time finding those unique unrepeatable sound characteristics
For instance despite many soundtracks are similar I always recognize the composers beceause no matter how what but your music will always be the result of all you've listened in your life but expressed to your brain re-elaboration of the sound data
Why I'm saying all of this? Just to point out that "you must find your voice" is a ridicolous statement because even when imitating other composers style you can't help but being original since there not anyone else like you and the way you process the musical data and the emotions you have collected through your life is unique since your lifetime and your experiences are unique and no other piece will sound like yours despite them being similar in style
Don't buy that idiocy that you can be original only by using strange devices and always changing style, the best way to be original is to be yourself in whatever style you compose

I think you should try to send your pieces to MasterPrize Contest that would be a way to win a prize (hopefull) or at least to have someone know you and your compositions

I look forward to hear other pieces from you
Congrats

Daniel

[abe]

All i have to say is wow, that was really cool. Is that a midi, or are you playing it? Because it sounds really hard to play so cleanly. Good job, i'll never be able to compose like that.

[alextryan]

That is truly a meteor shower of romanticism! 

I'm gathering that you wrote this out by hand on a computer, and had your Bosendorfer play it.  That certainly opens a range of musical possibilities not open to the average player. 

I hope you'll take this next bit with the greatest humor -- 

Something about the piece makes my hackles go up.  So many composers have used gail-force storms of notes to convey a feeling, but ultimately they're using lush virtuosity to cover up an emptiness of melodic and harmonic meaning.  I don't personally have any powers of discernment when it comes to those pieces, so I make no judgment about your piece per se; I only wonder if you are losing yourself to the luster of what midi offers. 

That said, and cynicism aside, it sounds like a brilliant piece.  May I be bold and ask how you write?  In my hopelessly limited experience writing in midi, it's easiest to start with a theme and add accompaniment on accompaniment.  Or do you have the whole concept in mind before you begin writing anything down? 

Also, I have to wonder...  can you play this piece?  You are certainly a virtuoso if you can!

[chopin2256]

This piece may sound like just a bunch of fast notes, however I sneak a theme into it

I try my absolute best not to write redundant material.  However this was after all, my first piece.  I composed it when I was 18.  I am a much more mature composer now at 23.

Check out my next recording, Ballade #2 in F minor here:

https://www.recordhall.com/piano-music.html

[julie391]

this is my kinda music! keep us informed of all new recordings 

[Spatula]

I just wish the 2nd Ballade was recorded with a higher quality instead of 20 k, it gets really mushy, but again the bandwidth restrictions are a pickle.

[alextryan]

The 2nd really does show greater development.  I think the real point is that I'm dead jealous of your ability to create music that sounds like a neo-Alkan magnum opus.  It's rich, mature, sexy... whoo, what was I talking about? 

[Ludwig Van Rachabji]

Yes, I like it. It seems a bit monotonous at times, but overall it's quality work. I would really like to see the sheet music. That way, I could better understand how it's built.


Ludwig Van Rachabji

[Spatula]

The 2nd really does show greater development.  I think the real point is that I'm dead jealous of your ability to create music that sounds like a neo-Alkan magnum opus.  It's rich, mature, sexy... whoo, what was I talking about? 

The 1st ballade sounded more like Chopin's influence, reminds me of Chop's Ballade # 1.

I still wish, despite the bandwidth, that the 2nd recording could be more clearer with a greater file size. 

[zemos]

this is very interesting, erasing all the responses you don't like reading.
thought you'll take it as a constructive criticism though.

[chopin2256]

I started 2 identical posts, one in Performers Center, and another in Repertoire in case theres confusion.

I figured there may be different audiences at the two different topics.

[Derek]

I think this piece of yours if wonderful, so much pathos
I think your pieces will become even more interesting (to listeners) after listening to your other pieces because originality is found on the fact that as different in style your pieces may be they will always have that particular unique character resulting from the person you're, what you have experinced and your vision of the world
That's what I love more about music, the fact that you can always recognize the style of whatever composer (famous or not) even if one piece is romantic and the other is impressionistic, and I love each time finding those unique unrepeatable sound characteristics
For instance despite many soundtracks are similar I always recognize the composers beceause no matter how what but your music will always be the result of all you've listened in your life but expressed to your brain re-elaboration of the sound data
Why I'm saying all of this? Just to point out that "you must find your voice" is a ridicolous statement because even when imitating other composers style you can't help but being original since there not anyone else like you and the way you process the musical data and the emotions you have collected through your life is unique since your lifetime and your experiences are unique and no other piece will sound like yours despite them being similar in style
Don't buy that idiocy that you can be original only by using strange devices and always changing style, the best way to be original is to be yourself in whatever style you compose

I think you should try to send your pieces to MasterPrize Contest that would be a way to win a prize (hopefull) or at least to have someone know you and your compositions

I look forward to hear other pieces from you
Congrats

Daniel

I agree, Daniel. When a composer writes music, he is already writing with his own voice. I believe if a composer hears a sound that he likes, he ought to use that sound in his own writing, since he feels some affinity with it. Whether or not a composer comes up with an approach unique enough to attach new terminology to it is immaterial, in my opinion. I think it would be difficult NOT to write with one's own personal stamp. Imagine trying to write a composition which would fool a trained ear into thinking it was by beethoven or chopin or bach!  impossible!  but one can borrow elements from these men without copying them precisely. Listen to Saent-Sans! The "French Beethoven" he was called. Nonsense! So he used the same kinds of chords, harmonies, and rhythms. I'm sorry but the music of these two men is still unmistakably their own.

However I would add that the more styles and idioms one absorbs, the more "musical landscape" one can place one's own personal stamp on. Universalist composers often are hailed as great originals. Bach for example absorbed all sorts of styles into his own, Chopin based his nocturnes off of John Field, Keith Jarrett absorbed pretty much every style of piano music in existence.

[jbmajor]

You're very talented, dude.  Keep it up!!  In time, you could be remembered centuries from now, much like the Greats.

[jbmajor]

chopin2256,  on your website under "My Music" section, you say you composed your 2nd ballade and all pieces thereafter at the piano.  Are you a pianist yourself?  If so, congratulations on your virtuosity. 

[anda]

these ballads remind me of the works of a student of chopin's - except that yours are more ellaborate.

[superstar]

I think ur compositions are just fantastic , id love to play them , really..
as much as id love to compose my own , but , ya know the whole of my life i was studying the piano my self . and right now , im at the academy of music in Poland and im learning everything , tho i dont play bad .. really .. a lot of people here had music teachers for 12 years and they play quite the same like me ... GOSH , im talking bout myself while i was meant to reply to this topic .. sorry
anyhow , id love to compose myself maybe next few months .. and ill show ya ..
can i contact ya personally somehow ?

[chopin2256]

Superstar,

I tried emailing you but your address does not work.  Just email me at music@recordhall.com if you would like to talk with me.

Mike

[jlh]

Do you have sheet music available?  I'd love to play some of your stuff sometime.

[chopin2256]

I do not have the sheet music ready yet.  The sheet music is a mess right now, and I need to add markings because of the many different tempo changes and dynamics.  There will be no slur markings, or pedal indications.  The pianist can use the pedal at his own leisure.

I will try to get samples up on my website soon though.

By the way, Superstar, my emails to you keep getting bounced back.  I tried emailing you from my hotmail account.  If that doesn't work, do you have another email address so I can get in touch with you?

Mike