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Hello, Here is a sound file (computer generated) of my first piano sonata (in D-minor). I wrote most of it many years ago, but now I had some spare time to review and improve it. The piece consists of three movements, in a classical style. Unfortunately I cannot provide you with the score for the moment (there are still a number of issues), but in any case, I would be grateful if you could listen to it and provide me with your opinion. Best regards.

this is incredible

I quite enjoyed it! I think each part works really well with itself, but sometimes things feel funky between parts, almost as if there was an unintentional dissonance for the sake of keeping the line as intended rather than adjusting to suit the moment. Sorry that's kinda vague! 😕 Anyway, I do quite like it! Gustav

I'm not sure about the program of this piece, but I really like how it sounds. The A sections are really nice with the percussion textures!

Wow, I think this is too risky. Atonality means no tonal center, but not lack of harmony. There is harmony in every kind of music. Other thing is that the harmony you hear is not tonal and hierarchical according to classic standards. In the Gymnopédies there are tonic centers. Again they are established in different ways. Most parts of Gymnopedies are modal. Modal music have also "centers", call them tonic center or whatever, but the music runs around the center. Atonality and politonality is not the same. In bitonality you have TWO tonal centers, and in true bitonality you need full development of each tonality with dominants and tonics. In politonality, it's the same but with more tonalities. When there are no tonal centers at all, you have atonality. It was the progressive "obsession" of those composers, first Schönberg was not convinced of free atonality because it could have "hidden" tonal centers, and he developed atonal dodecaphonism. Serialism was a step further. What happens in Mars is not politonality. For that, tonalities must happen simultaneously, not one after the other. I think Holst used bitonality here in some parts with centers on G and C#). This piece by Ives is truly polytonal: