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My biggest theme this Summer was the " completion" of Schuberts Unfinished symphony , here the Scherzo with an orchestration of the main part and a new composition of the Trio with Schuberts sketched melody: https://youtu.be/FSndEjJPeTM?si=62TpTBfnH2xbq4

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Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion challenge for you - orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a concerto
"I made further additions and can present it now in YT: https://youtu.be/YCx24bDAAME?si=UIEFQO7tGFRZWxNX"
Mar 3
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion challenge for you - orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a concerto
"Now after only about 2 weeks I am happy to have  finished the movement on the basis of the mentioned draft: Let me please know your thoughts :-)
www.gerdprengel.de/concerto1802.mp3
www.gerdprengel.de/concerto1802.pdf
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Feb 23
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion challenge for you - orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a concerto
"Wonderful job! I did the same : https://youtu.be/p4G-sgHQtKc?si=fAWZ95EgvUyV9EIQ  "
Feb 10
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion challenge for you - orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a concerto
"ok, then I will let you know when I hopefully finish the movement. The first 3 minutes I finished already (till the entrance of the solo violin and cello) and I am very exited about the result :-)
What sonata did you you orchestrate? I did the alse…"
Feb 9
Gerd Prengel posted a discussion
Hi, I started today the orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a a triple concerto apparently for violin, cello and piano, which predates the familiar Triple Concerto or at least a concerto for violin and…
Feb 6
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion Elegy on a most beautiful Beethoven melody sketch
"did you hear these strings in https://youtu.be/CtoYm6BZ_i0?si=UeX4ATGSJaf2TFKQ ? They are just sooo wonderful and I feel I must re-record a lot of my former recordings! Unfortuneately the fast strings of musescore 4 do not sound so well ..."
Jan 19
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion Elegy on a most beautiful Beethoven melody sketch
"I mixed the Noteperformer part and the musescore  strings via audacity with the wave files of both..."
Jan 18
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion Beethoven's counterpoint studies ORCHESTRATED
"Thank you, Ken, for your comment. My software does have good abilities to  do articulations. The way I did it I felt appropriate for classical fugues and I did it intentionally so. Maybe it would help me if you could refer to specific passages where…"
Jan 17
Gerd Prengel posted a discussion
Last year I wrote this elegy but was not satisfied with the slow strings from NotePerformer. Now I discovered that the slow strings from musescore 4 are much more beautiful. What do you think of this work (and the…
Jan 15
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion Beethoven's counterpoint studies ORCHESTRATED
"There is another fugue from Beethoven's counterpoint studies which just overwhlmes me in this version which I just did for string orchestra ! Here I use for the first time Musescore 4 for the slow strings instead of Noteperformer. I see here the…"
Jan 7
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion guess the original composer/work of my new ochestration :-)
"Yes, the f- minor quartet is fantastic and most dramatic!! I orchestrated that too: https://youtu.be/1mAUlPdXpms?si=2Xr7ZjdsWvo6Bktf"
Jan 1
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion guess the original composer/work of my new ochestration :-)
"Spohr? I never heard anything by him that comes even close to that work. I find Spohr very boring. Did you consider Mendelssohn?"
Dec 31, 2023
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion guess the original composer/work of my new ochestration :-)
"Thank you, Mike - I am glad you like it ... see the solution at the bottom :-) "
Dec 31, 2023
Gerd Prengel replied to Gerd Prengel's discussion guess the original composer/work of my new ochestration :-)
"It can't be anyone but Mendelssohn! --> a very much underrated string quartet:  https://youtu.be/0FSKV54uNxQ?si=KxAtSRZB5Kj_aO7z"
Dec 31, 2023
Gerd Prengel posted a discussion
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
Dec 29, 2023
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Dec 19, 2023
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  • Welcome Gerd.
  • Dear H.S. Tech, I very, very muched enjoyed your piano Fantasia yesterday!! Just wonderful!! I myself was recently active mostly in orchestrating Beethoven's wonderful counterpoint studies, for example https://youtu.be/gQqM9iiOWMs?si=J1eeN5z2UDBppb8m ...
  • Hi Gerd, good to see you here! Hope to hear more of your work soon.
  • Welcome to the forum, Gerd! Please upload some of your music.
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