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Hi everyone! I am posting the 1st movement of my Third Piano Sonata in C sharp minor. This movement starts at 2019, but was abandoned since I had to focus on composing my two Clarinet Quintets then. Then after finishing my Sextet movement I wanna write something trash to restore my originality, so I choose this one to work on. What I had is only b. 1-8, b.177-180 and b.225 till the end, so my job was to extend them and make the music as smooth as possible. Luckily the final product isn't quite trash at all, even though the style is less original than the Sextet. I know the recording is bad, especially with those tears, but hopefully it doesn't hurt! Hope you enjoy it! This movement for me is furious, but it acts as self therapy by composing and expressing all my anger and confusion. I was in a state of depression at the composing period, worrying from the world to myself. Luckliy this movement saves me from falling to the depression trap. I make use of the opening falling fourth motive and that triplet rhythmic motive all through the movement, which results in something Beethovanian and reminds me of his Appassionata. I started to enjoying it more and more after playing it myself. It's challenging but very enjoyable to do so. Piano Sonata no.3 in C sharp minor First Movement.pdf Piano Sonata no.3 1st Mov Audio.mp3 Here is the structre of the movement: 0:03 Exposition, First Subject. Uses the falling fourth motives and the triplet rhythmic motives in the whole movement due to coherence (and laziness LoL) 0:39 Transition 1:02 Exposition, Second Subject, in dominant G# minor. 1st theme more chordal, 1:17 2nd theme, more cantabile in nature, 1:35 3rd theme with furious octaves, and the next passage with 16th triplets on top with the fate motive underneath reminds me the Appassionata most. 2:10 Development, begins with imitation and canon, then reach the more beautiful theme in 2:44, but soon crushed and the Appassionata related F minor comes in at 3:29. The progression here I am sure I have learnt from Schubert's Fantasie in F minor for piano four hands. 4:19 Recapitulation, First Subject. Try something Bramsian here. 5:10 Recapitulation, Second Subject, same as the exposition except in the tonic key. 6:19 Coda, using that beautiful theme from the development again (except with that freaking wrong note LoL). Building up climax until reaching 6:51(my favourite passage!), and is agitated till the end. Feel free to criticize it or just take note on something interesting of it. I will be very happy for all your opinions! I know the recording is bad, especially with those tears, but hopefully it doesn't hurt! I recommend the YT video version more since it seems to filter out some of the tears! Henry

Sorry for coming late to the party, Henry. I’ve been planning to comment for a while and actually listened to this piece quite a number of times. I can clearly hear the Beethovenian influences with the fate motif, and the piano writing is indeed chopinesque. As others have mentioned, the harmonies are completely suitable for the type of work you are writing. Although there are touches of Henry Ng in this piece, I do think there are heavy influences from other composers shaping your music. In the process of finding originality, I think you should try shaking those influences a bit more. Perhaps add some 7ths or sharp 9ths to those V - I progressions, and spice up the rhythms of the fate motif. Writing smaller pieces will help, that way you can fully work with a specific idea you want to explore. Hope this helps Great work on this, though. I could probably never write or play this well.

Very nice! The pianist did a really great job bringing this to life! I really love those sudden and unexpected modulations between E minor and G minor with that 9th added in there for a very affecting harmony! The rubato is really nice and the pianist's interpretation brings this to another level. BUT, I think you can still improve your engraving and show pedal marks. Congratulations on getting your piece performed and thanks for sharing!