Arrangement of sonata no. 5 mvt. 3 for string quartet

[NickJB]

Arranged this a few months ago, and wanted to see if you guys liked it

https://soundcloud.com/user-57079544...ta-no-5-for-sq

[gprengel]

Hi Nick,

I like your arrangement a lot! Thank you for sharing! I love it to hear the great piano works of the great Masters in other garments / arangements to discover other aspects of their beauty. Is there a way that I can study your score?

After your piece there comes also a string quartett arrangement of op. 109. Is this also from you?

Gerd

[NickJB]

There's another guy who wrote arrangements for Beethoven's sonatas as well xD
If you want the score I guess I can email it to you, or something?

[gprengel]

If you want the score I guess I can email it to you, or something?

yes, please send it to email(ad)gerdprengel.de. Thank you!! Which notation and sound tool do you use ?

[NickJB]

Sorry, it says email(ad)gerdprengel.de and gerdprengel.de is not recognized. I use Sibelius software. It's awesome!

[Peter]

Although generally not a fan of arrangements I really like this! It's not one of my favourite Beethoven sonatas, yet somehow I think it works better as a quartet. Your software is very impressive.

[NickJB]

Very unnderrated software for its price! Why don't you like arrangements?

[NickJB]

Although generally not a fan of arrangements I really like this! It's not one of my favourite Beethoven sonatas, yet somehow I think it works better as a quartet. Your software is very impressive.

I also wrote one for pathetique mvt. 2 and sonata no. 1 mvt. 2 if you wanna check those out! Working on more

[Peter]

Very unnderrated software for its price! Why don't you like arrangements?

Well we have Beethoven's own words on this in a letter to his publisher after he arranged his sonata no.9 for String quartet: 'The unnatural mania, now so prevalent, for transferring even pianoforte compositions to string instruments, instruments which in all respects should be so utterly different from one another, should really be checked. I firmly maintain that only Mozart could arrange for other instruments the works he composed for pianoforte; and Haydn could do this too ... I have arranged only one of my sonatas for string quartet, because I was so earnestly implored to do so, and I am firmly convinced that nobody else could do the same thing with ease.'

Beethoven was particularly proud of his arrangement precisely because he believed no one else could have done it as well. He didn't simply distribute the notes onto four voices - he also made significant changes to the course of accompanying notes, reflecting the specific characteristics of a string quartet, and the additional flexibility of having four independent voices.

[NickJB]

Oh wow that's a great quote. I often find myself tackling those very challenges! May I say I am firmly convinced that many of his sonatas can do wonders in string quartet format haha; and that it's difficult, but possible.

[Peter]

Oh wow that's a great quote. I often find myself tackling those very challenges! May I say I am firmly convinced that many of his sonatas can do wonders in string quartet format haha; and that it's difficult, but possible.

Well I think you did a good job with the 5th sonata!

[gprengel]

There's another guy who wrote arrangements for Beethoven's sonatas as well xD

I am just listening to the string quartett on the Appassionata sonata op. 57 from this man - It is fantastic!! Also all the other ones he did - marvelous! What a discovery!

https://soundcloud.com/jeff-briggs-1...57-appasionata

Gerd

[NickJB]

Yes I'm learning a lot from him. You should all listen to him too!

[gprengel]

I listened to the Arrangements of op. 53, 54, 57, 78, 106, all just fantastic and let me see these sonata in a new light! However the Performance of 110 Ab major I found rather inadequate, especially the fugue was much too fast... I had arranged this sonata once for orchestra which had been a wonderful experience for me.

[Quijote]

Although generally not a fan of arrangements [... ]

Me neither, even though arranging a piano sonata for string quartet is of course an interesting exercise. What about orchestrating one of Beethoven's piano sonatas? You all probably know of Debussy's orchestration of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie N° 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUlZylqILKI