What a piece is this?

[gprengel]

I'd like to have another quiz with you again: Today I finished this orchestration and ask you - what might be the wonderful original composition?

http://www.gerdprengel.de/piece11.mp3

Gerd

[Peter]

This is the Adagio in B minor by Mozart K540.

[gprengel]

Yes, Peter, I knew you would recognise it...

[Peter]

Yes, Peter, I knew you would recognise it...

Not immediately. I knew it was by Mozart and that it was a piano piece. It's a long time since I heard K540 so my immediate thought was a sonata slow movement, then I realised there were hardly any Sonata slow movements in a minor key and the B minor Adagio came back to me!

[Roman Koval]

If I'm not late, it is Mozart's Adagio (https://musescore.com/user/11373346/scores/2903836)

[gprengel]

Are you ready for another quiz? Do you know this piece which I just orchestrated? --> http://www.gerdprengel.de/xxx.mp3

[Peter]

Are you ready for another quiz? Do you know this piece which I just orchestrated? --> http://www.gerdprengel.de/xxx.mp3

This is the minuet from Beethoven Op.2/1 - sounds more like a scherzo in your version Gerd and I like the orchestration!

[Schenkerian]

This is the minuet from Beethoven Op.2/1 - sounds more like a scherzo in your version Gerd and I like the orchestration!

Very impressive, Peter.

[gprengel]

Very good, Peter. I must admit that I did not really know this little movement so far, till I was recently asked to orchestrate this whole sonata . The first 3 movements I finished and now I try the Finale... I can't beleive that all of my life I am a lover of Beethoven and I didn't really know this first sonata so far ...

[gprengel]

Another quiz? Does anyone know what this is? I must admit that I didn't know this gem before orchestrating it in the last days ....

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

[Chris]

Another quiz? Does anyone know what this is? I must admit that I didn't know this gem before orchestrating it in the last days ....

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

It's the delightful Sonata for Piano, Four Hands in D major, Op. 6. I used this one with a piano student once. It's great fun to play!

A very nice job you did of orchestrating it as well!

[gprengel]

Bravo, Chris! I love Beethoven all my life and I can't believe that didn't know it! I really discover the early Beethoven ... Do you know a piece by Beethoven that is as Mozart-like as this?

[Peter]

Bravo, Chris! I love Beethoven all my life and I can't believe that didn't know it! I really discover the early Beethoven ... Do you know a piece by Beethoven that is as Mozart-like as this?

Strange you say Mozart, it sounds more like Haydn to me!

[gprengel]

Strange you say Mozart, it sounds more like Haydn to me!

The Mozart influence I think is so obvious in the melodious second movement, but also the first movement ist strongly influenced by Mozart's great 4 hand sonata K 497, especially in the beginning of the development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ1cKfianu8 --> 5:50
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQeMmNr0Nz4 --> 1:28

[gprengel]

Here another piece which I just orchestrated - do you recognise this movement?

WWW.gerdprengel.de/xxxx.mp3