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Little Rondo for a piano concerto based on a Beethoven sketch

Last week a friend sent me a little Beethoven theme sketch from 1799 for probably a Rondo for a piano concerto. Based on this I wrote this "Mini"-Rondo of about 2 minutes, which someday I may work out for a whole movement: I hope you will like it:

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Are Virtual Instruments (VSTs) going too far?

I did a little experiment to see how realistically I could recreate the 1st movement of Beethoven's 6th symphony using only MIDI files and virtual instruments. I wanted to understand the piece better to not only improve my own music writing, but to u

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How to compose good themes?

Hi everyone. 

I'm new to this forum so I don't know wether this is the right place to ask this or not, but I think it is so I'll go ahead.

After I got myself familiar with the popular classical piano repertoire, I became more interested in composing.

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Moonlight Sonata one octave higher ?

Hey everyone,

This has been nagging me a while. When I read scores of Moonlight Sonata (Quasi una fantasia) by Beethoven, Op. 27 (part 1), the score indicates one octave lower than what I hear pianists play. I was wondering if anyone had a quick exp

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Not Fur Elise

Hi,

 

Just finish writing and recording "Not Fur Elise" for a new book for mDecks

It's a variation on Beethoven's Fur Elise where elements, form and structure of the piece needed to stay unchanged. (like a parallel universe version of the piece !! :

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