My first big piano sonata, how is it?

Hello everyone, 

I’d like to share my new piano sonata, "Rebirth". This is a single-movement large-scale work that follows sonata form, incorporating smaller inner sections and a fugue in the development section. I tried to build a thematic transformation throughout. 

I finished it some time ago, but last week I finally got around to inputting the notes into the software (it was actually written on paper in pencil, though). One day, I’d love to dedicate a month or so to detailed performance work on this piece and make a real recording.

Anyway, for now, I would appreciate any outside opinions and suggestions, points of view, etc.

Why I wrote this piece

The main reason I wrote it was simply a strong desire to compose something substantial for solo piano, using some contemporary compositional approaches while mixing them with traditional techniques to create a coherent storytelling experience through music.

I would love to hear your feedback on the composition, structure, and, especially, emotional impact. I am especially curious to know if my ideas work on paper. Any thoughts or constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated!

P.S. I added time-codes with some Structure indications to the video on YouTube. I hope it helps in some way! 

Thank you for your time and attention, 

Dima

Hello @Dima Kravets and welcome to the forum!

This piece has been sitting on the forum for quite a while without any responses so I decided to give it a go!  From the get-go it seems to display a high level of sophistication that I can't hope to delve into and understand fully with one casual listen.  For a piece that starts with a series of seemingly atonal chords and returns to them throughout, it does seem to be quite unified.  And the piece as a whole does not seem to be atonal or gratingly and deliberately dissonant.  Which is a nice breath of fresh air!  I love the tasteful changes in key and complex but comprehensible rhythms.  There seem to be some motives and the pianism is full of clear textures.  The chords are never muddy.  The only thing that I observe that could perhaps be improved is that the more important lines can be brought out more in high relief to create a clearer hierarchy of importance between the different lines.  Sometimes the texture is polyphonic and the lines are all equally important.  But in other places the top note should clearly be the more important element but it is sometimes a bit buried in the texture.  That's my only critique.  But I don't know what software you're using and how easy it is to do that.  In Musescore I have to use velocity values to offset the foreground and background elements.  The sonata seems to get more harmonically interesting and crunchy towards the end.  Thanks for sharing!