Zwiebelmeister

I specifically object to the idea of categorisation by instruments. There's a category for piano. I am a pianist, but I find the concentration on the piano slightly disconcerting. Then orchestra and a pop/band/jazz/everything-else. Basically, anything that isn't piano or orchestra goes to the third category, including chamber music, music for solo instruments other than piano, opera, electronic music, and so on. This renders those categories virtually useless. Categories have been installed, disliked and subsequently removed twice already. I thought you should have realized that by now. EDIT: Eek. Now a category for experimental and atonal music. What the? What about atonal orchestral pieces, where do they go? EDIT 2: I also see that string quartets and brass quintets have been put into the orchestral category. I recommend that you go to the library, grab the New Grove and look up the definition of "orchestra". Also, what about the "orchestral arrangements" in the description? I have a few orchestral pieces, and they're most definitely not arrangements.

Well, here is my first piano sonata. One day, I just started writing and went on and on, and in the end I had a work longer than I intended. Anyway, here it is. Stylistically, it's not that different from my earlier works, except that it is a bit more tonal in some places (and less so in others). Like most of my works, it is in one movement. Anyone who's brave enough to try it at the piano may feel free to do so. Anyway, what do you think about it?

I intended to post this in the "Composer Depot" forum, but that one is read-only, and the Mozart and Rachmaninov sub-fora won't work, but here goes: I think there should also be forums for the following composers: Leonin Perotin Guillaume de Machaut Gilles Binchois Guillaume Dufay John Dunstable Johannes Ockeghem Martin Praetorius Heinrich Schütz Claudio Monteverdi Giovanni Palestrina Orlando di Lasso Georg Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Haydn Carl Maria von Weber Gioacchino Rossini Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Franz Liszt Antonin Dvorak Giuseppe Verdi Anton Bruckner Gustav Mahler Carl Nielsen Igor Stravinsky Sergej Prokofiev Aram Khachaturian Erik Satie Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel Charles Koechlin Dmitri Shostakovich Paul Hindemith Arthur Honegger Francis Poulenc Darius Milhaud Edgard Varèse Olivier Messiaen Bernd Alois Zimmermann Gy

It seems I can't edit my own posts. All other forums I know allow this, how comes I can't do it here? EDIT: It seems that it is possible here, but not in the Off-topic forum. Or is it only possible for a certain time after the post has been sent (as in the old YC forum)?