Gerd Prengel's Discussions

Fugue in C-Major for piano

Hi, I'd like to present to you my little fugue for piano:

https://youtu.be/S4UQ7B5XpZc?si=w5ed-5reL4J0efQe

I have had only little experience in writing fugues so far, so your let me know what you think of it ...

Gerd

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Piano sonata in e-minor I. Allegro con brio (based on a Beethoven sketch)

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

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a powerful first Beethoven draft to write a c-minor Symphony movement - Completed

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?.

my revised version of a completion by W.Holsbergen:

https://www.youtube.com/

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my new Beethoven realisation - a delightful piano concerto Rondo

I greet you with my new Beethoven realisation - a delightful little piano concerto Rondo :from an early Beethoven sketch:

https://youtu.be/ldUHAgGoLNw?si=Zxe_KYqxvvzb3TDg

I hope you'll enjoy it

Gerd

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Variations for piano in g-minor on an early Beethoven draft

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 -

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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:

www.gerdprengel.de/mahler.pdf

www.gerdprengel.de/mahler.mp3

Gerd

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Chorus for piano version and orchestra version

Hi, for the first time I work on a choir piece, based on a most melodic Beethoven cantata fragment - a version for choir and piano (the first 45 seconds and interlude at 1:22 - 45 by Beethoven) and a version with orchestra - what do you think? Are t

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new variations for piano on another sketched Beethoven tune

Hi, I'd like to share with you my new variations for piano again on a sketched beautiful and rather melancholic Beethoven tune from 1820. Formerly I have made already an orchestration of that theme.

https://youtu.be/t2xFOj5MOJo?si=9hZC7xt_SbZXbXVX

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Overture on the notes B-A-C-H

Hi, I'd like to present to you my new overture on the fascinating notes B-A-C-H, inspired by some sketches by Beethoven . Please read the remarks in the video description ... I hope you will enjoy it:

https://youtu.be/2jF1CNsXj7c?si=JJqqvOEzGBcEJw28

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Further Beethoven sketch realisations

May I introduce you to my latest realisation of some marvelous Beethoven sketches ? At the end there is a Scherzo which I think is one of Beethoven's best!

Can you imagine this to be done from these original sketches?

--> https://youtu.be/BVB_Jmak2Do?

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'Fantasia Farewell' for Piano

a piece for Piano which in its intial stages I had brought up here before, but now I feel it is finished: https://youtu.be/ekqplpNC0oA which I ha

A piece of parting from someone you love - it contains some of the most temder passages I ever wrote - I

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challenge for you - orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a concerto

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 Cello

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Elegy on a most beautiful Beethoven melody sketch

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 recording): https://youtu.be/H2VmrG

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guess the original composer/work of my new ochestration :-)

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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Mendelssohn's 6th symphony first movement (completed) - comparing 2 versions

Hi, I need your help! As you may know I completed Mendelssohn's wonderful fragmentary 6th symphony a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0dFe2nBn_s&t=148s

Now somebody else said I should do a new recording with more reverb and a better mixi

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Elegy for Piano in a-minor

I am not sure whether I presented this little piano elegy which I wrote in the early summer in the former forum, so here it is:

https://youtu.be/moe9nT3NGNw?si=QAGuvAQn2Q6GI4do

It starts very melancholically, then a more vived middle part follows and i

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Beethoven's counterpoint studies ORCHESTRATED

Recently I am active mostly in orchestrating Beethoven's wonderful counterpoint studies, for example these splendid and yet so unknown TripleFugues:

https://youtu.be/gQqM9iiOWMs?si=J1eeN5z2UDBppb8m ...

The notes in the video contain only the original

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Schuberts Unfinished symphony completed - III.Scherzo and IV.Finale

My biggest theme this summer was the " completion" of Schuberts Unfinished symphony on the basis of his sketches!! Here the Scherzo with an orchestration of the sketched main part and a new composition of the Trio with Schubert's sketched melody:

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