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Schlu
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Добавлен 9 апр 2017
Ben Schlüter // Composer
"A Leaf in the Wind" Fantasy for Orchestra
A Fantasy in F Major. Let the story unfold in your head.
Complete Score: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ghmfu-u7XI9kyC7itmTZdiWsXru9umdU/view?usp=sharing
(Any engraving mistakes in the video should be corrected in the files above.)
I have been a bit on a hiatus the last few months, because I'm currently working towards the composition entrance exams (which are not to be underestimated). But uploads will get more frequent and hopefully more and more professional moving forward.
I am satisfied with the atmosphere and emotions this piece conveys, however, I still find its pacing and coherency lacking. The harp part is to difficult and the woodwinds breathing isn't perfect. Despite these thoughts, I s...
Complete Score: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ghmfu-u7XI9kyC7itmTZdiWsXru9umdU/view?usp=sharing
(Any engraving mistakes in the video should be corrected in the files above.)
I have been a bit on a hiatus the last few months, because I'm currently working towards the composition entrance exams (which are not to be underestimated). But uploads will get more frequent and hopefully more and more professional moving forward.
I am satisfied with the atmosphere and emotions this piece conveys, however, I still find its pacing and coherency lacking. The harp part is to difficult and the woodwinds breathing isn't perfect. Despite these thoughts, I s...
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Lullaby for Piano and Cello
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.5 месяцев назад
I experimented a bit with different harmonies and modes. Hope you like it. Score: drive.google.com/file/d/1CsQoQEoQola2owBBrWG2t6f8T7ceqWFg/view?usp=drivesdk
Concerto in D Minor for Cello and Strings
Просмотров 7 тыс.6 месяцев назад
I have never before poured my soul into a piece more than I did here. I'd love to hear some constructive critcism - throw it at me! Complete Score (Updated): drive.google.com/file/d/1XIbRBLtTLheYgugCjZTIG_EjyWZw6EhE/view?usp=sharing I might make some revisions to the score, as in bowing, accents etc. I will keep the score updated acordingly. Score and Audio were made using MuseScore 4.
Serenade to a lost One
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.6 месяцев назад
A year has passed already - as if nothing ever happened. Score: drive.google.com/file/d/199DFxhsvoB0lKI1fOstuSq31vGkFHz5E/view?usp=drivesdk
Daydream for Strings
Просмотров 4,6 тыс.7 месяцев назад
~ A brief daydream - the thoughts wandering ~ First time I've written something for a String Orchestra :) Sheet Music: drive.google.com/file/d/1EdpmxaiJKAYM11LgjA8k235uSzO-JnF0/view?usp=drivesdk
Mémoire No. 3 in D-Minor for Flute and Harp
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Sheet Music: drive.google.com/file/d/1DqF-iCZDaCkRyP_VdmWtoXp-mueusrgE/view?usp=drivesdk The unnecessary time signature in mm. 23 and the enharmonic notation mistake in mm.14 are some oversights I failed to spot before uploading - sorry 'bout that.
Mémoire No. 2 in B Minor for Flute and Harp
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
I want each of my Mémoires to convey distinct characteristics and emotions. This one is more playful and energetic than the first. Sheet Music: drive.google.com/file/d/1AcR6T6ds4waK2ON0_jXwBc312_BPbyhf/view?usp=drivesdk
Mémoire No. 1 in Bb Major for Flute and Harp
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.9 месяцев назад
I tried something different with this composition. Something about the Synergy between Flute and Harp is just incredibly calming. The sound and score was made using MuseScore 4. Sheet Music: drive.google.com/file/d/1ABz82_fDPIyZyvEjB-hpFLtE9c8zvC9A/view?usp=drivesdk
Meditation No. 2
Просмотров 31 тыс.10 месяцев назад
My Meditations are short and easy to play Pieces that try to convey the experience of Meditation. They exist to be lost in - to calm the players mind. If one so desires, they are free to play the piece indefinitely. Sheet music: drive.google.com/file/d/19M_nQco38zZvtGahjbijMwUsRLMxCjns/view?usp=drivesdk (Don't forget the octave marking over the right hand treble clef...)
String Quartet No. 2: I. Andante cantabile - B. Schlüter
Просмотров 24 тыс.11 месяцев назад
The first Movement of my second String Quartet. It's my first time writing a piece in the Sonata-Form and I think it worked out. Feedback is appreciated! 00:00 Exposition 05:36 Development 09:11 Reprise Sheet Music: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zj4G8wWNqwwzCOPVHY5Rr2-PkPa4ntH3?usp=sharing
Swan 🦢
Просмотров 387Год назад
If anyone knows what style of music this is, please tell me. I'm no expert in music genres.
Nocturnes: "Wither"
Просмотров 4,4 тыс.Год назад
A dark and melancholic piece. Sheet Music: drive.google.com/file/d/15vMWrMViYEVmws5GGyOoH8m4FlTg9aeM/view?usp=drivesdk More pieces will soon follow. #piano #solopiano #originalcomposition #sadpiano #nocturne #classicalmusic #classical
You seriously never miss, bravo!
Thank you! :)
It's beautiful
Very nice!
Absolutely wonderful. You have such a bright future ahead.
Stunning!
great piece! 👏👏👏👏👏
Love love love your work! is there any hope that you will provide individual parts for this cello Concerto? Our cellist loves it and we are hoping for manageable parts for our amateur quartet. thank you so much for the lovely music you have made available. Ganz toll!
I'll try not to forget it. Maybe I'll have the scores cleaned up and ready to go by friday :)
@@schlu that would be so amazing! thank you for the quick response. We are a group of amateur string players in Portland Oregon, and we love your pieces: most recently obsessing on Daydream. So hard to find intermediate pieces that are interesting for the cello. Anyway thank you again!
I updated the link in the description. Any fingerings and bowings are just suggestions (since I'm an amateur myself), so you don't need to take them at face value. Have fun and, if you ever feel like recording the piece and uploading it, I would be absolutely delighted to hear it :)
Oh my gosh thank you So much! This is so appreciated and our cellist will be thrilled. We get together on Sunday, and will try it out. Just can't thank you enough for the response and taking the time to make this available. Feels like an early Christmas present 😊
I saw on your comments that you have a Patreon account , but I cannot find on the website. If there is a link, please send. Thank you!
@Homebodypiano's performance brought me here; Beautiful piece, I really enjoyed.
pretty
this and string quartet #2 are so nice, would love to play them with friends!
Thank you! I will update these scores next. I should hopefully have them ready by the end of the week :)
hey! this is absolutely AMAZING! it would be cool if you could add the individual scores for each section if possible. thank you!
I updated the link :)
It were fantastic, perfect, really felt from the sky until a weird harmonic decision at 1:17 that put me out of this transe. But yeah, you are good you know it
Why does it sound like there is a whole orchestra playing it?
I did use section samples out of necessity, because I didn't have good enough solo samples at the time.
Can I have your full name? I couldn't find it. And I'd like to try and record a little bit of this wonderful piece with my colleague if you let me...
It's Ben Schlüter - Well, there isn't anything to find online, since I'm pretty much just some german highschool graduate ;) Also feel free to record whatever you want - I would love to hear a genuine rendition.
Oh my god... This is actually astounding, great even. The depth and the richness is on point. The piece seems a bit aimless tho, but that doesn't significantly diminishes the overall quality of the work. I truly believe you are one of the greatest composers I've stumbled upon in this site, to a point that I wholeheartedly believe my life would've been diminished haven't I found your works. Sometimes I wish I did not want to be a composer, I always try to give up, but I can't, I keep picking up composing over and over again, but I only write mediocre pieces. Your music is so lighthearted and beautiful that it makes composing seem easy. I think I will pickup composing again, its been like 3 months since I last opened Musescore. Keep dreaming man.
You already are a composer. Never tell yourself otherwise. I often share the exact same doubts and went through so many ups and downs the past 2 years. Points at which I saw no Improvement for a month straight, but I just keept myself motivated by simply loving music. My advice for you is the following: - Improvise and exore the keys. Get a feeling for how the notes and harmonies work, and just let loose. - Compose more in your head. Try to not just place notes in MuseScore to hear them. Imagine it in your head - then write it down. - Don't rush yourself. You love doing it and you know that you do - so just do it because it's fun and not because someone wants you to be Beethoven by the end of the year. Do infact keep dreaming, it's a human thing to do, but don't let your dreams distract you.
Are these actually recorded or do you use some VST?
I use the MuseSounds from MuseScore 4, they sound solid enough and are incredibly practical.
This is really cool! So one thing you might hear being thrown around by composers and cello teachers is that writing cello concertos is hard because the lower end of the cello range is hard to hear. The upper register (I’m talking like E4 and above) is much more audible. If this is for a friend that specifically requested not much thumb position, cool, but I would highly recommend throwing a lot of this up an octave. If you’re worried about range, just know that the cello can go up to A6 and higher. Also if you’d like to keep the pastorale range, maybe consider thinning out the texture, having some instruments drop out occasionally to help with balance. Overall pretty good string writing!
honestly speaking this piece is too short to be a concerto. You should name this as concertino or concert waltz for solo cello or something
fair, but if he’s aiming for a more baroque style, then a concerto would work
So beautiful and full of emotions! I hope you will find an orchestra to play your pieces in the future in order to hear the full sound of your hard work!!
Is there any way to obtain the nusescore file for this bro? I really love messing around great compositions as this
Excellent piece, the textures are super incredible, the second part is incredible, could you share the individual parts of the orchestra or the midi in the description? If you do not mind.
Sorry for the delay ~ I updated the link with all scores
Absolutely gorgeous great job!
This seems like it'd be fun to play. Big fan of the pastorale section too. Few things from a cellist's perspective: - You can leave most of the bowings out and have just phrase markings. A few here or there help if you know exactly what kind of sound and how to get it on the cello, but the rest we can intuit. We also usually come up with our own bowings that work but try keep the overall phrasing intact (e.g. how many editions of the Saint Saens, Elgar, and Schumann there are out there) alongside our own interpretation. - The bowing is a bit awkward going into m. 65 since it lands on an Up bow based on the bowing you give. This might be one of the cases I gave above but since you're alive we can just ask. - If you want an open string in any particular spot you can definitely write it in if you want that sound. [H] would certainly be convenient to play an open string and it would probably sound the best since everyone is at full blast. Things in the score I'd have questions about if it were a reading rehearsal: How exactly would you want the piu mosso section in [B] phrased? You've down-up-up at the start of the piece, but the phrasing changes in the render. I'm personally a fan of the connected phrasing MuseScore 4 does. Slurring the last two notes of the measure would probably be the most common instinct of other cellists reading this but I could just be projecting.
Thanks a lot for the thoughtful comment. I am rather a novice in the cello, so I asked my teacher for help with the fingerings. MuseScore actually turned off the staccato on notes beneath slurs, so I had to use cluttered bow markings instead. Additionally I am not yet fully familiar with what is comfortable to play for strings and what is more tedious. The più mosso shouldn't be over-shot. There should be left room for some rubato during the crescendo. But I still want it to be noticable in the sense as to get you into the mood for [C]. I have revised the sheet music a number of times, so it might differ from the rendered sound or notation in the video. Thank you for your insights - I've always been pedantic about the bowing symmetry across players, so I'll keep it in mind. Might spare me a bit of struggle.
Never heard of "allegro" 😂?
IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS, HOW HAVEN'T I NOTICED THAT?! 😭
Lovely, like a music box!
Nice job, would be great to hear a guitar ensemble composition from you
I agree! Usually I "beg" my former guitar's students beginnig study composition, to write something for the Guitar ensemble of the Musical Gymnasium where I teach. Could you consider this possibility???
Nice work!!! Very beatifull
Simple, effective, stunning. Good use of rhythmic and melodic motifs. Would love if both themes were contrasting in nature, part of the beauty of Sonata form is how variety of both themes to give you almost a breath of fresh air, was a little hard to discern when the second theme came in without the score. Don’t let this comment detract from this piece, it truly is a gem. Love your melodic writing here! Am excited to hear more!
Lovely!
Some good melody and harmonic work. The only personal "nit pick" I would say, is to explore the cello's upper register a bit more in this one. Only since this is considered a lullaby.
What a beautiful nocturne thank you for sharing
Such a stunningly beautiful piece of music, the melody is soaring, and both the harmonies and counterpoint are reminding me of Rachmaninoff (which is definitely a good thing)! I'm really touched by this work, I'm excited to come back here and listen to this work again so that I may enjoy it and also learn from it. Thank you for sharing this Schlu!
Simple but not superficial.
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Ya got a new subscriber!! The B part made me cry 😢😢😢 This is quality music! Please keep making. ❤❤
Ya got a new subscriber!! The B part made me cry 😢😢😢 This is quality music! Please keep making. ❤❤
I'll keep writing for the rest of my life.
the orchestration of quartets is wonderful
who's the composer..and where is the rest of this work?
The composer is myself and the work is not yet finished, but I'm working on it ;)
Tutta musica bellissima, la vostra! Complimenti e cari saluti da Siracusa! 😍
AMAZING! Liked and subbed
Hello, beautiful work, I wanted to know if I can get sheet music so I can play it for my school
Thank you! The link should be in the description - if it doesn't work please inform me. When practicing and playing, feel free to make adjustments as you see fit :)
Hi fellow Sch!
Greetings 👋
This is beautiful, honestly feel inspired. Loved the harmony around measure 172 and what comes right after, what is it?
Glad I could inspire someone :) Measure 172-174 could be interpreted in a multitude of ways, but I thought about it as a 4 to minor 4 to dominant, with the cromatic movement in the thirds as the bass. The Dm7 is actually a Bb79, just drop the bass. The dominant (m174) then resolves to the subdominant Bb instead of the tonic F, leading into A7, the dominant to the parallel minor key. Then it's just a II-V-I in the dominant key, Dm - G7 - C7.
@@schlu Thank you so much, I tried to analyze that section for a bit, but was getting it wrong in some places, you are very helpful <3 And that sounded beautiful while still being mostly accesible to play and as a cello student and composer wanna be I can appreciate that a lot.
There are no composer wanna-be-s, only composers ;) One thing that helpes me a lot when composing is that I improvise in my free time. I gained a lot of harmony knowledge through exploring the keys, while analizing what I'm doing. I also looked at the most common chord progressions in jazz and used them as a basis for experimentation.
@@schlu True to that! Thank you for being so open to my question and kind enough to throw some tips my way, I'll be sure to learn something from there :)
Amazing bro ❤️🤌🏻
i love the baroque inspiration! after listening to the first part, i think embellishment in the middle voices-honestly having a strong, contradicting countermelody line-would do this piece a huge service. I’m rly impressed though and honestly, I hope I can one day get to your level of musicianship!
As I cellist and a composer, this is something that everyone should listen to. You are a really really good composer. ❤
Lovely Piece, well done.
Hi. What is the font you use for the title?
I use the standard font from MuseScore 4. It's called Edwin.
Thank you dude❤😊
This is actually insane how good this is. Man please make more compositions! This is such a great piece like all your others. Bravo to you good sir!
I'm on it! Doing my final exams right now, so I am sadly a bit stuck creatively.
@@schlu got it! Good luck!
this is lovely, was going to use it for a graduation that I am working until I saw it is present day work. Great work!
Thank you!