[Composition] Piano Sonata No. 1 (the whole thing)

[xdjuicebox]

So I've already uploaded the fourth movement: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=64520.0

But I'm going to put all four movements in one place. I thought it was time I shared this piece with the world, since it looks like publishing this thing might take a while since I'm soooo swamped right now.

A bit of history: I began this sonata in July of 2016, after completing my "10 Preludes" project. This was also when I first started studying with my current teacher. It took me until November to complete the first movement, and then in December I hit an /epic/ writer's block, which I did not break out of until March. I completed the Sonata in May 2017.

This piece was my struggle to find my own voice in the modern world, my struggle to find a middleground the tonality that I so dearly loved with the atonality that fascinated me...

...my struggle to cope with one of the hardest losses of my life, and how that loss changed me. There are four movements; the first describes my life before I met this person, the second describes how this person changed me, the third was losing that person, and the fourth was...the aftermath.

The first three movements will be MIDI, since I can't play them...yet LOL. The fourth one I recorded myself, and will reupload. I'll probably revise the second movement at some point.

Please let me know what you think!