In fact, in the end it doesn't even seem like an invention to me; anyway, as I wrote on YouTube, I am perfectly aware of the simplicity of the piece, and the fact that (having realized this more while playing it) by making a few changes in certain parts I could lengthen it and make it more interesting, because as it is, it's a repetition of the main theme except for the central part, where even there it wouldn't be bad to intervene; let's just say I wanted to leave it as simple as possible, which is perhaps why I don't feel good about it.
The piano sound is always the same one I used for Winter 2011; it sounds distant, almost as if played in a room, without reverb.
I had another version, more decisive, slightly faster in the main theme, but I messed up a part: instead of holding a note down, I struck it again, so the second version won, which obviously convinces me less.
Well... if only I had the skills to be able to compose something like that. It has something modern about it, I don't know what, but it is not very baroque and that makes it so, so pleasant.
I thank you, but you must believe me when I say that on one hand this pleases me, but it also embarrasses me, because I know many simple pieces that far surpass this and others; it doesn't matter if they were written by a Schumann or a Mozart, they are perfect, both from a harmonic point of view and pleasant, and this is what is missing. This is one of the simplest, and even if simple does not mean banal, I consider it inferior to "Semplice", which I wrote just after, but I usually write quickly; these are pieces that come to mind like that and are written, but in those moments I know they are not
particularly interesting things, and I sincerely do not have the skills to claim to be a true composer; the intention is there, but I do not have sufficient means and I am still lagging behind, so I am a bit in limbo in this sense. The positive thing is the aspect of the approach to composition: compared to the past, I am writing simpler and more linear things, and this could be a way to slowly approach something more complex and coherent, which I cannot yet aspire to.
To give you an example (it's not a flattering example, no, it's sincere; I would exchange—even though when one writes "their own" things, I put it in quotes because there is always a minimal influence—these are not pieces of contemporary music in which techniques are used that, moreover, I do not know, because I don't even know the traditional ones) I consider the Nocturne that Frank has recently written to be a mini masterpiece, because it contemplates polyphony and melodic beauty, a piece of short duration but of considerable intensity. I like pieces of that kind, or the introduction (I define it this way because he did not continue it and it would deserve to) from the 2011 fugue by Marco (CromaDiBrera), spectacular because it is for 6 voices and convincing in the entries of every voice; these are just 2 examples.
