Concerto for Fortepiano and Orchestra In F major (Allegro)

[@geoffthedonkey2295]

Usually you can tell when something is ‘pastiche’, even if it is excellent. No matter how good the composer is, there’ll always be something tiny in the texture, or in the formation of a sequence or a theme or something that just doesn’t sound right. However, if someone presented this to me as a newly-discovered Mozart concerto I’d completely buy it- everything is absolutely spot on. Probably because it isn’t ‘pastiche’ it’s truly original and inventive and full of freshness. Well done, it’s undoubtedly the best new piece I’ve ever heard written in a classical style.

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

Thank you for comment! That means a great deal to me :)

[@geoffthedonkey2295]

@Carl Carlsson in that case, where can we hear your compositions Carl? I imagine they must be even better than Mozart’s own.

[@geoffthedonkey2295]

@Carl Carlsson precisely what I expected- nobody will remember your tedious critique, but the music will live forever. You lose

[@Pawel_Malecki]

Carl: "This is not what a Classical composer would do!" Mozart: writes the Dissonance Quartet, Musikalisches Spass, Kleine Gigue and C minor Introduction and Fugue Rosen's book didn't help me understand Mozart at all. It helped me understand Rosen. For understanding Mozart I read his own scores. BTW Carl you're trying to sound smart with the piano opening comment but you seem to have never heard the opening of Mozart's 'Jenamy' Piano Concerto no. 9 in Eb major, K.271 where the piano jumps in right at the beginning and actually responds to the opening tutti fanfares. We had a great performance in Vienna a few weeks ago by Varvara and Swedish Chamber Orchestra, you could have learnt something if you were there.

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

@carlcarlsson4362 Sorry I've only just come across your comment. I know you didn't mean slander in your comment and I do respect your critique. However, I am aware that likes of Haydn/Mozart wouldn't have written out the continuo line in the solo part (If that's what you're referring to in your comment) I just like the sound of the keyboard playing along with the orchestra. In a way, I like to think it makes it sound a little bit authentic and maybe HP? but of course I only have half decent sound samples to work with. Overall its just suggestive for the effect and not a product of traditional 18th notation. Saying this, I have come across to some additions of Mozart's Piano concerti where the editor has implied the practice of continuo by writing out the bass line like I have done here so although its not historically included, it sometimes is in some additions.

[@niilokorsulainen]

This is one of the best emulations of Mozart's style I've ever heard - and that's coming from someone who's also specialised in this stuff for nearly a decade! I've never commented on your scores before but I've been following your work ever since I first discovered your old channel in 2016. Back in the day, you were one of the few people I knew of who were also doing this, and your early uploads were of great inspiration to me. I've been hiding on musescore for all these years, but now that I'm uploading here as well, I thought I'd finally say hello :) I've been focusing on Mozart's church style lately (I'm currently working on a full-scale mass in the style of K. 427), but this movement really made me miss writing in the secular style! The concerto-sonata form is a difficult one to master, and you do it beautifully, with clever phrase structures, melodic beauty and an impeccable sensitivity for nuance - all trademarks of Mozart's mature style. Really, really great job!

[@Pawel_Malecki]

The opening is absolutely gorgeous. Starts resolute just to explode into pure excitement at bar 25 and almost reflect upon its 'immature' behaviour at bar 41 and finally reach a compromise at bar 65. Like a kid who wants to be treated as an adult, then a young who gets fed up with adulting at 25 and tries to go back to freedom, settles down firmly around 41 just to figure things out when retirement comes close.

[@severusgrabercomposer4365]

This is both great fun and beautiful!

[@Pikpus2357]

"This concerto is a happy medium between too heavy and too light. It is very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being insipid". Someone once described his own F major piano concerto that way, and it clearly fits your new masterpiece perfectly. Your work is a joy to listen to, and, among its many exquisite details and ideas, I must say that I just love how you re-state the main them in the L.H. between each cadential trill. To my ears you are a true 18th century composer and maybe even a18th century man (there is hardly any bigger compliment in my mouth :) ), and the music you offer to us is a wonderful gift that makes us all 18th persons too! Thanks a lot and please keep up the great work!

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

That’s without a doubt the most meaningful comment I’ve received, thank you! This concerto reflects on Keyboard works Mozart wrote around the early 1780s and like you said it is a happy medium between was it too difficult and easy without being vapid. I’m happy to hear you enjoy my work and there will be certainly more coming soon! I tend to write very slowly and at times will scrap entire passages over again till it works :)

[@Nooticus]

Absolutely astounding... I am beyond shocked that you aren’t a professional composer, this is staggeringly amazing I can’t even put it into words!! I would 110% believe this was written by Mozart! About to listen again straight away!

[@Nooticus]

Your command of Harmony, melody AND rhythm, as well as the tender moments of this style is absolutely stunning!

[@kevinteichroeb6997]

Wonderful! I was excited to see another piece of yours come across my feed, and I was not disappointed! Thank you!

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

Thank you very much! I’m happy to hear you enjoy my work and there will be more on the way :)

[@pervycreeper]

This is *excellent*! The only problem is that it seems to be missing two more movements.

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

Thank you! :) I do intend to finish these works someday. I’ve looked at some of your works they are also very good! I like your string quartet

[@andreasgoss6279]

This is amazing! Really like the well crafted piano part throughout the piece :)

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

Thank you Andreas! :)

[@adalberus_slav4875]

Is awesome. Can you ask the notes to play?

[@late8641]

This is just nitpicking, but if you intended to write this piece in the style of Mozart, the fortepianos of his time could only reach F6, so the G6 in bar 117 would've been impossible to play. Fortepianos that could reach 5½ octaves all the way to C7 only came in the late 1790s. But this is probably an irrelevant fact, what a lovely composition nonetheless!

[@JohannMichaelHaydn17371806]

Wonderful! May I ask, what piano samples are you using here? Thanks for sharing!

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

Thank you :) i use note performer

[@JohannMichaelHaydn17371806]

@@matthewwhitehouse301 I am also using too. But the piano sound is really nice here. Thanks!