Who guesses the original composer/work of my new ochestration? --> https://gerdprengel.de/orch.mp3 Any remarks about this orchestration I would appreciate before I create a YT Video with the score ...
Gerd
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I don't know the work Gerd but your scoring, without actually reading it sounds absolutely bang on for the classical/early to mid romantic period so I congratulate you. The antiphonal wind/string scoring work is great as are the instrumental combinations. The use of sustained winds in tutti is appropriate to Mozart, Beethoven et al and the tutti work with appropriate brass parts is also very effective in a historically crooked kind of way. There is clarity and excellent vertical spacing from what I can hear, great job and actually thanks to your orchestration a very nice enjoyable piece.
Thank you, Mike - I am glad you like it ... see the solution at the bottom :-)
Could it be Louis Spohr? Don't know the exact piece though.
Spohr? I never heard anything by him that comes even close to that work. I find Spohr very boring. Did you consider Mendelssohn?
I hang my head in shame that I'm not familiar with Mendelssohn's works, even though I've heard of him.
It can't be anyone but Mendelssohn! --> a very much underrated string quartet: https://youtu.be/0FSKV54uNxQ?si=KxAtSRZB5Kj_aO7z
I guess as Gerd has already posted Mendelssohn stuff, it would have been a good guess and certainly sounds very much like the composer, now that I got round to hearing the beginning. I've occasionally tried to listen to the string quartets but apart from no. 6 which does have something of a tragic character, they're simply too lightweight for me.
Yes, the f- minor quartet is fantastic and most dramatic!! I orchestrated that too: https://youtu.be/1mAUlPdXpms?si=2Xr7ZjdsWvo6Bktf