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May I humbly invite you to listen to Theme and Variations for solo piano, composed years ago but recently recorded. Heavily influenced by Ludwig! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loA2GX6cof8 Many thanks.

I know I couldnt get it to go away so I just accepted it lol. thanks man.

There's a slight audio glitch in your recording at 0:45. Very expressive harmonies you use in this piece. Despite how you seem to explore those different harmonies you end up in the same key (or on a very similar chord) as the beginning from what I can tell (so I am not the only one who seems to be doing exactly what he intends in his music LoL).

Yes, I can send the vote tally for your respective pieces in a private message. As for the tallies of the three winners, I'll see what I can do.

I will be happy to provide feedback; however, owing to the length and complexity of some of these submissions—and the fact that I have some impending deadlines approaching outside of this forum—it will be some time before I'll be able to actually sit down and compile my comments. My best estimation is after the second week of January. I apologize for keeping you waiting that long and hope you are understanding of my circumstances... 😬

That's a great tip that I didn't know about! Thanks for that! Although what I have most trouble with is quick crescendos and decrescendos on a single note. Right now the only way I see of doing that is to split the note into two or more parts and give each part a different dynamic with a hairpin in between them (say for a sforzando piano kind of effect). It looks kind of bad in the score and there's no way to just hide that extra stuff and make it look like just one note as far as I know. Thanks again!

I really liked this piece! There's a fair deal of rhythmic variation and some mode mixture which keeps things interesting, but overall it still feels grounded and consistent. And you've managed to come up with a memorable main theme that ties the piece together very nicely. I'm trying to think of a criticism but I can't come up with any – all I can say is that it would sound much better with an actual singer performing!

Bravo @yuchanbot. Really nice piece of music!