What a piece is this?

[Sorrano]

@Alisa : Peter had refered to my orchestration of Beethoven's op 06 which by now I have in YT: https://youtu.be/Zk3n_GsgYNk I still see more Mozart in it than Haydn ;-)

@Quijote: This Satie piece is indeed very beautiful and so far unknown to me. I will try to orchestrate it till tomorrow ...

I enjoyed this rendering very much, thank you! If I recall, you used Finale with an add on for your orchestrations? Long ago I had Audio Logic for Windows, using a MIDI device with instrumental samples but what you have scored sounded much better.

[gprengel]

I enjoyed this rendering very much, thank you! If I recall, you used Finale with an add on for your orchestrations? Long ago I had Audio Logic for Windows, using a MIDI device with instrumental samples but what you have scored sounded much better.

Yes, it is called Noteperformer. Here you can hear how ingeniously good it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOxIjOXHY2s or in my new orchestration of the op. 130 quartet: https://youtu.be/eZy0gMHtLDk

[Sorrano]

Yes, it is called Noteperformer. Here you can hear how ingeniously good it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOxIjOXHY2s or in my new orchestration of the op. 130 quartet: https://youtu.be/eZy0gMHtLDk

I appreciate that, thank you! I am looking into purchasing these but they are a bit pricey.

[Quijote]

Here is my little score - very roughly edited and very simple, just the notes of the original piano adopted without any notes added (unlike Debussy):
http://gerdprengel.de/satie.pdf (of http://www.gerdprengel.de/satie.mp3 )

Thank you, Gerd. Orchestration is quite an art, isn't it? What do you think of Debussy's orchesration? Any surprises for you? I had to do the same exercise many years ago for an orchestration class - I can't say I got any gold stars for it!

[gprengel]

Thank you, Gerd. Orchestration is quite an art, isn't it? What do you think of Debussy's orchesration? Any surprises for you? I had to do the same exercise many years ago for an orchestration class - I can't say I got any gold stars for it!

The video of the Debussy orchestration contains 2 pieces and the second at 3:05 is the one which also I orchestrated. But actually I like the first one more, for the second with the added harp and the strange percussion in the background, but also the unisono strings changes the intimate character of the original piano piece, I think. I corrected some unbalances in my orchestration by now: http://www.gerdprengel.de/satie.mp3 What do you then think of the Debussy- and my version?

[Sorrano]

Yes, it is called Noteperformer. Here you can hear how ingeniously good it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOxIjOXHY2s or in my new orchestration of the op. 130 quartet: https://youtu.be/eZy0gMHtLDk

I fought Finale, so thank you for your recommendation. I haven't gotten Noteperformer, yet, but have been looking at it. Someone owes you for a commision on Finale!

[Quijote]

I fought Finale, so thank you for your recommendation. I haven't gotten Noteperformer, yet, but have been looking at it. Someone owes you for a commision on Finale!

I have already sent a cheque to Gerd! The post here though is very unreliable, I hope he receives it.

[Quijote]

The video of the Debussy orchestration contains 2 pieces and the second at 3:05 is the one which also I orchestrated. But actually I like the first one more, for the second with the added harp and the strange percussion in the background, but also the unisono strings changes the intimate character of the original piano piece, I think. I corrected some unbalances in my orchestration by now: http://www.gerdprengel.de/satie.mp3 What do you then think of the Debussy- and my version?

Hello Gerd, I think your version is very satisfying, lush and romantic - I like it! I also like the way you share the melody between oboe and clarinet (with flute doubling). I was kind of expecting you would add some pizzicato effects in the lower strings (something I would have done) but that's just a personal preference. I think too that I would have been tempted to give the melody to a cor anglais instead of an oboe, again, that's just a personal preference. But yeah, nice work, well done!

[gprengel]

A few days ago I was sent this beautful melancholic melody sketch by a composer and I was asked whether I could arrange it to an orchestral piece?

http://www.gerdprengel.de/xy-orig.mp3

Would you guess the composer?

This is what I did with it and call it "Elegy in a-minor":

http://www.gerdprengel.de/elegy.mp3

What do you think?

[Peter]

A few days ago I was sent this beautful melancholic melody sketch by a composer and I was asked whether I could arrange it to an orchestral piece?

http://www.gerdprengel.de/xy-orig.mp3

Would you guess the composer?

This is what I did with it and call it "Elegy in a-minor":

http://www.gerdprengel.de/elegy.mp3

What do you think?

Don't ask me why, but possibly Mendelssohn? I like what you've done with the material, very nice!

[gprengel]

Don't ask me why, but possibly Mendelssohn? I like what you've done with the material, very nice!

Well, I also would have guessed Mendelssohn, but it is indeed Beethoven(!!) - a melody sketch from 1820 :-)

[Quijote]

A few days ago I was sent this beautful melancholic melody sketch by a composer and I was asked whether I could arrange it to an orchestral piece?

http://www.gerdprengel.de/xy-orig.mp3

Would you guess the composer?

This is what I did with it and call it "Elegy in a-minor":

http://www.gerdprengel.de/elegy.mp3

What do you think?

I didn't have the chance to guess the composer, I logged in too late. That said, I wouldn't have guessed it was by Beethoven, specifically.
As to what I think: a pleasant "cobbler's patch of a melody" (Cf. Beethoven on the Diabelli theme) with a simple and repetitive tonic-dominant harmonisation (I-V) with one subdominant chord (IV) - not much else you could have done with it, IMO. In terms of orchestration: solid and classical.

[gprengel]

Hi, here a new orchestration - do you guess the original work? https://gerdprengel.de/x_orch.mp3 For me one of the most ingenius works of the composer!

[Peter]

Hi, here a new orchestration - do you guess the original work? https://gerdprengel.de/x_orch.mp3 For me one of the most ingenius works of the composer!

It's Mozart's Fantasie for organ in F minor. Nice orchestration Gerd.

[gprengel]

My latest orchestration - does anyone recognise the original work? http://www.gerdprengel.de/xxxxx.mp3 (not so easy this time ...)