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This is a very good start, your counterpoint Is very effective for the most part, though a brush up in a few parts definitely is recommended. Your opening is of course very similar to Eine Klein Nachtmusik, while not a bad thing, it obviously draws comparisons which I think you could avoid by having your initial theme come through earlier. the second theme is nice with some harmonic development, from bar 70 onwards, I really enjoyed that section. be careful with trills in lower and middle registers, they may come out a bit muddy. My main problem with the movement overall is one of balance, more care could be taken with dynamics, melodic range and feel, especially in the more chaotic opening it feels a bit too busy and confusing, in the development bar 140 feels very out of place and jarring, but that's my personal perspective. and then the rhythmic themes afterwards feel very out of the blue, maybe if you introduced it more throughly earlier it could work more convincingly. over all you have many impressive things in this piece and it's a commendable first attempt at string quartet writing. I look forward to hearing more of your writing.

This is exactly what I said... 11 years ago. lol. But honestly the point Nirvana was making is that he didn't like the label because it didn't describe, to him, what the end product sounded like, and I argued that the label is a label of the method of composition, not a description of the end result. If you layer 6 keys on top of each other (ie, C C# D# E F F#) you end up with a bunch of clusters that, if you were to ask anyone, wouldn't be really defined as "polytonal" or "tonal" anything, it'd be just a wall of sound. IF you then started to separate them so that each key had different hierarchies and so on, you can start to bring out a "tonal" character out of it which is audible. None of this has any bearing on the technique per se, only on the execution, which is where the real distinction lies.

Nice piece. the melody is captivating and it goes beyond. I like the acceleration in 1:50..

after a long hiatus, I'm back. during this hiatus I wrote a piece which I consider my best yet, a string quartet in a classical/ early romantic style, I wrote it very quickly for a module in the summer of last year (which is why there are so many repeats, it had to be a certain length of time, and I was very pleased with the result. let me know what you think and what you recommend

Another sinfonia...

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