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This is the first movement of my Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 3, my earliest piano sonata. I first wrote it in 1993, aged 15 - but somehow lost track of the score for a long time. It eventually found its way back into my hands, so I decided to restore and polish it into a performance-ready version. I'm introducing here the first movement only (hopefully the link will work). As usual, comments and feedback are totally welcome!

Yes, classical forms (that can be used in any style) teach us how to balance repetition and variation. And that's the clue. Music, as we know it, must repeat parts to fix the melody and harmony in our brain, but should include variation in the repeated parts. There are many ways to achieve it, and that's what Forms deal with.

To give you an accurate opinion on the form it would be nice to see the score. Anyway, since the piece is constructed on a repetition of a phrase, there is no complex structure here. Apart from the ending, perhaps, as a coda, from 4:00, the phrase repeats on and on in a sort of A1 A2 A3 A4, etc... What happens is that every exposition changes by means of the orchestration, or the chorus, or the sopran voice, or the rhythm. The arrangement is good, for me, I like it. Yes, of course it is repetitive. For the time it takes it's not boring, but .... almost. I think this work would improve a lot if you write a second theme, different and contrasting, just to build a basic ABA form. I always say that studying the classic Forms is easy and funny, and it allows us to make better pieces. For example, a modulation here would have been an interesting change, too.