Elegy on a melody sketch by Beethoven (1820, Biamonti 726)

The tune for this wonderful melancholic Elegy is a rather unknown melody sketch by Beethoven from May 1820 among sketches for the great E-Major sonata op. 109! I wrote this after my friend Armando from www.lvbeethoven.it introduced me to it and asked me whether I would do an orchestration of it what I joyfully did. Actually I feel that the theme sounds more like Mendelssohn than Beethoven, but in the middle I put out the Beethovian flavour of the theme - I hope you will enjoy it ...
More information: www.lvbeethove...
The recording was done with the strings from musescore 4 and the winds from www.noteperformer

[@ryanwilk1642]

Beautiful work Gerd! I’ve been meaning to ask you something. What are your thoughts on Beethoven’s unfinished 6th Piano Concerto from 1815? (Hess 15). If possible, I would really like to see you attempt a completion of it and maybe even write a second and third movement!

[@gerdprengel7616]

Thank you for your nice words, but I think the way it already has been completed is indeed wonderful, and I certainly cannot do it any better --> ua-cam.com/video/30tfq5UNMZU/v-deo.html or even better: ua-cam.com/video/VsdUrrkYg1I/v-deo.html

[@ryanwilk1642]

I know. Maybe someday someone (doesn’t have to be you) can write a second and third movement to it.

[@gerdprengel7616]

Hi, Ryan, see my new project of another unfinished Beethoven concerto: ua-cam.com/video/YCx24bDAAME/v-deo.htmlsi=h9IL3QBoFcIowtKx

[@ryanwilk1642]

@@gerdprengel7616 Wow! That's a really beautiful work! Such a shame Beethoven never completed it...