Gustav Mahler - Completion of an amazing draft for a symphonic Scherzo
Hi, I would be very grateful, if you could give me your thoughts on this orchestration of an uncompleted draft by Mahler for a Scherzo:
Gerd
Read more…Hi, I would be very grateful, if you could give me your thoughts on this orchestration of an uncompleted draft by Mahler for a Scherzo:
Gerd
Read more…After a night ot troubling dreams, Gregor Samsa awakens to find he has transformed into a giant insect. A speculative meditation for string quartet.
https://soundcloud.com/user798687192/gregors-dream
Read more…Greetings, everyone. I've hardly composed anything for months, but the other day I sat down with a cup of tea and wrote this little ragtime piece, which I've named for the beverage I was enjoying. Any thoughts or feedback would be welcome.
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Another little ragtime piece, this one is modelled more on the novelty ragtime of people like Zez Confrey, Arthur Schutt, and Rube Bloom than on the "classic" ragtime of Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and James Scott. Any comments or feedback would, as always
Read more…Another long period between composing (seems like old posts were removed?) ... at least this is a space where people can relate to this feeling.
I dont know if I can call it a "composition", but its something i sat on for a month or so, developing sl
Read more…Hi, before publishing this video I'd like you to listen to that which I was working on in the last 2 weeks. Again based on a fascinating Beethoven draft (hias notes marked yellow):
How do you like it? Anything I should change? --> https://youtu.be/Ols
Read more…Dear friends,
would you please compare these 2 versions of an amazingly powerful first Beethoven attempt to write a c-minor Symphony movement ("Presto") from the early 1790s?.
A tonal piece based on an unusual mode inspired by Peter Mennin.
It was more a technical exercise but not being as clever as Mennin I had to reject all but the slow movement (submitted here). It's also more true to the mode.
The atmosphere has a 'lost
Read more…Hallo, I just wrote these variations on a beautiful early Beethoven piano draft. Please share with me your thoughts. Till next week I may present to you also the notes ...
https://www.gerdprengel.de/Kafka125_variations.mp3
Especially the second last -
Read more…A shambolic moonlight ramble. For string orchestra.
A Fold in the Fabric of the Night.mp3
A Fold in the Fabric of the Night - Full Score.pdf
Read more…This is my first piece I did as a string quintet. I used Dorico to score it and Orchestral Tools VST for the audio.
Ontoño Árido (Arid Fall)
Here in Southern California we get pretty dry in the Fall. Trying to overall
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I submitted an earlier version of this quartet some time ago on the earlier forum but it needed trimming down a bit. It comes from a more tonal era (for me).
It's four short impressions of a small tropical town for flute, cor anglais, clar
Read more…I wrote this little miniature today. I'm not usually an "express yourself through art" person, but this is a raw reaction to current events.
Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xQ4M-pdsmG6J7TMmuQwTeGX2CKTJS9oz/view?usp=sharing
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I confess to being a contrarian and an iconoclast, which is reflected in this latest fugue of mine, in ways that should be readily apparent to the listener. Or so I hope. :-D I have a lot to say about this offering totally not in the spirit of Octob
Read more…This arose one evening at a Dartington summer school when three of us were left with nothing much to do so we decided just to write a two or three part fugue, see how we got on.
This was my effort.
A Little fugue-050612 - 160.mp3
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Hello! It's been forever since I've posted on here, and I just remembered about its existence so I thought I'd post my most recent work on here.
This piece is a tone poem for wind quintet and two percussionists, based off of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tel
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