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Here my new piano piece in Romantic style. Does a Bagatelle fit with the character? I'm not sure of the title. Any feedbacks are wellcome.

Hey, about 5 weeks ago some friends told me about a composition contest is launched by the Xalapa Symphonic Orchestra, (Xalapa, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico) which is one of the most important and respected orchestras in Mexico, with very high level players from this country and foreigners, with an European conductor. This contest sounded like a very good chance to get a piece performed since they said not only one piece will be selected, but 8, and they are open to see the composer cataloge, anyway, I didn't delay much and started writing exactly 1 month ago, an piece in Overture form, with max. of 4,4,4,4 - 4,3,3,1 Timpani, 3 perc. Harp, Piano/Celesta and Strings, and 8 minutes maximum. There is no $$$ prize, but the pieces will be performed and recorded. Dead line is march 19, and results will be april 21. So, this is my entry for that contest, and I share with you here as a tradition to me. Obertura Magica.pdf

A very high quality video and soundtrack you've made once again! I like the various artwork and effects. Is it just me or are some of the voices slightly out of tune in some places? I like your change of key at 1:55. The only thing I miss in this is that once you're in a certain key you basically tend to stay in that key. Even when you change keys you do so abruptly without any transitions. You manage to return to the original key as well but once again without any transitions ... it would have been a good opportunity to use some chromatic chords out of your key that could have been laced with more tension. Nice cliffhanger ending! Well done overall!

I don't particularly like 1812, but if there is one piece that everyone else likes and I don't, it's Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending!

I like Zimmer's soundtracks. For what they are, they generally work well as music for films. perhaps my standards are lower in that context. I'll admit I find the Gladiator soundtrack very catchy. In my opinion, the finest example of a soundtrack in regards to both popular appeal and high degree of originality and quality of music in their own right is Bear McCreary's music for the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. Not a single mediocre track in the lot.

Interesting analysis @PaperComposer. I never thoght of that being a sonata form. For me thats a typical ABA short piece, main theme starting on mesure 2 with the dotted rythm, and mesures 8-12 I see as a development of the second half of the main motif (second half of mesures 3 and 6). I like the effect of grouping the bar 3+3 at the begining and than mesures 8-23 the music ideas are group into 2 mesures phrases. I agree the 2 bars after the recapitulation are a bit awkward. Fist I tried to make the repatitulation directly after the dominant suspension 46, but it was to abrupt to me. That I thought to introduce the Dm minor scale after the recapitulation it works a bit better, but probably the rythm is a bit unrelated with the previous material and can be better. I'm thinking now to replace somehow the EM7 of mesure for and aumented 6th chord (Bb-D-F-G#) which already contain some of the notes of Dm (Bb-F). Maybe that the return to Dm sounds more natural and convincing. Both the aumented 6th and EM7 habe de same harmonic function, working as a dominant of the dominant, but the augmented 6th is a bit more dissonant and have a stronger feeling of a minor key, so maybe it works better here. I will make a try. Thanks for you comments!

Guess I'm a bit late to this party, but I was absolutely blown away by this. I'm curious out of the eight or so pieces that they selected what could have beat this out. This belongs in some sort of YC hall of fame, this is wonderful and brilliant. Thanks for sharing. In the end, I think competitions are a good motivator but sometimes they fail in their ranking of top talent. And by top talent, I mean those who have truly searched and continue to do so to find and polish their own unique musical voice. The precursor for their success is probably ticket sales; maybe they were looking for something different. My musical heroes weren't renowned for their prowess in some clown show of entertaining the richies, but rather their success in molding music into something that radiates only of them. For instance, I liked this a lot: This piece had moments drenched in beauty. I'm excited to dive deeper into your score, and you've inspired me to attempt an orchestra piece. I hope that's a win in your book. Again, well done man. This deserves a resurrection as you have quite the talented musical voice.

Very nice and consistent piece of music. I love the main motif and how you start just with the piano and then it growns with more instruments to finish just with the piano again. It feels very natural and nice. Good job!

This song is so great! You did a good job. 😁

Love it. Beautiful music and I love the sound fonts.

I couldn't shake the feeling there was some hard-to-identify timbre in there. An organ was my closest idea, though silly in hindsight. I agree that the whole thing contributes to the impression, but I'm guessing the bassoons and flutes, maybe with somewhat sudden attack and release, contributed most. The harmonics glissandos probably add a bunch of harmonic complexity very subtly. I really dig how the timbres add up to create a whole that's much more than the sum of its parts, so I hope the tone will be at least as mysterious in a real performance.