What a piece is this?

[gprengel]

it is the Scherzo from Schubert's Unfinished (!!) with my orchestration of the main part according to Schubert's full worked out piano version and my composition of the Trio where Schubert sketched only about 16 bars of the mere melody

[Chris]

I enjoyed it Gerd, but I had no idea what it was from. I'm not as familiar with much of Schubert's output as I'd like, I'm sorry to say!

[gprengel]

No idea? Isn't it quit obvious that it can be only Schubert?

[gprengel]

May I show you my latest project and ask you what this may be? https://gerdprengel.de/xxxx1.mp3

[gprengel]

Bravo - but not only the Sinfonia but also the final Capriccio :-) https://youtu.be/yCTKI8oDa10

[Peter]

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

The Sinfonia from Bach's partita no.2 in C minor.

[gprengel]

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

[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]

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!

[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]

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 :-)

[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]

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?

[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!

[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.