Krebs, Fantasie in F minor (Fantasy, Fantasia, oboe)

[PandaLily3]

could you please do the flower duet by delibes? i think it would look and sound amazing

[RoofTopPiano]

this song totally suits my personality....

[biggerfiddle]

Seeing as how you've done some work with solo classical guitar, may I recommend Sylvius Leopold Weiss' baroque lute music? There are 9 CDs of his lute sonatas on the Naxos label, played by Robert Barto. The range of the baroque lute is huge, the deepest notes are below the cello's bottom C. I would put Weiss' music at the top with the very best, and Barto's playing is amongst the most musical I have ever heard.

[PandaLily3]

i used to watch your videos over and over and over until i got M.E. and i still love them. although they make me dizzy now, i still watch them often. im aiming to be a music teacher and these videos help me study certain pieces of music. my favourites are fantasie and canon, but i would love to see some of tchaikovsky's work on your music animator. do you have any of his work on youtube (nutcracker suite etc.) you and your work inspires me and makes me very very happy when i am down, thank you

[smalin]

@PandaLily3 I did a couple of selections from the Nutcracker, but they are only on my DVD (see my website); I won't put them on YouTube until I've sold all the DVDs.

[Radeir1]

Que delícia de cadência

belamente pontilhada

- smalin, você é um amor!

[parquar]

To be fair I wouldn't say that anybody is on Bach's level if Krebs is not. I have begun listening to his fugues and such and they are very good. Works like the Art of Fugue bring it to the next level but I don't think composers like Mozart, Beethoven, etc ever produced anything on that level either. Of course Mozart had the raw talent, but it is about what can be done with that.

[smalin]

@parquar It depends what "level" we're talking about. Krebs could write "straight counterpoint" completely competently, and he had a very good sense of harmony. However, I don't find his music as strong, structurally as Bach's, or Handel's, or even Vivaldi's (not that Handel or Vivaldi are at Bach's level in all areas). I've played a lot of Krebs's music (organ music, sonatas, etc.), and it's all good, but none of it is transcendent. The fact that this is his best-known piece says something.

[amazingwave]

@parquar I don't know a lot about music, if anything about classical except for the names of pieces and styles but I have to agree with you. I just find Bach's music more entertaining and frivolous not to say that other composers are bad but I just don't feel the same excitement or emotion that I do when I listen to Bach.

[garyleung142857]

the bass should be stronger

[danielkirk1]

Brilliant

[Darkovith]

complicated

[lennic95]

Wow weird instrumentation! Did you do it, smalin? I play the oboe and subsequently the Cor Anglais but to put them with a bass clarinet and a bassoon...is original

[smalin]

@lennic95 Yes, the combination was my idea.

[BANSHEE666999]

todas las canciones que a mi me gustan usted las pone y ademas me da las partituras.

i can`t speak very good the english sorry

[BANSHEE666999]

i like this

[4footcadence]

Krebs may not be well known, but those who hear this piece will not forget him.

[codifex]

Definitely and organ masterpiece! Never heard of Krebs and I have to wonder WHY? Thank you.

[lennic95]

@codifex not an organ

[OtherRoadProductions]

Do you think this could be played with Violin and Organ?

[smalin]

@OtherRoadProductions  Absolutely.

[YoureMyStar123]

Is this polyphonic? :O

[smalin]

@YoureMyStar123 Yes --- four independent voices, each with their own melodic interest.

[Magnifier091]

encajaria perfectamente en un juego de rol tipo Final fantasy IX.

[TikiFury]

@Magnifier091 a mi me recuerda a Medievil, sobretodo las primeras notas del principio! :)

[VampireChick1231]

isnt an english horn also caled a cor anglais?

[smalin]

@VampireChick1231 Yes. Cor = horn (like cornocopia=horn of plenty), and anglais = English.

[ImOnTeamEdward95]

Je pense que Krebs est un compositeur merveilleux! Même si je joue de la trompette, j'aime toujours cette chanson!

[ozgurtanriverdi2]

its computer made ?

[zuesposidenandhades]

i love this song i even asked my teacher if i could switch from french horn to oboe and she said maybe

[HeifetzRanew]

veeeEEEeeery nice !

Thank you for sharing

[dschanghsin]

约翰内斯·路德维希·螃蟹

[123pelerin]

哈哈好可爱的玩笑：）

[naihagar]

1600's?

[123pelerin]

mid 1700s

[ImOnTeamEdward95]

This is a lovely piece. You can clearly hear the voices, I have never heard this piece played so well before. In my years of experience, I have NEVER, EVER heard multiple oboes play in unison so well. And when you say "but not in J.S. Bach's league", I find you mislead. Nobody was in his league because there wasn't really a league for anyone to follow. So technically, no one had a league to entertain or compete in. But nice voicing in the music on the otherhand! :) TRUMPETS RULE!

[aramaat55]

@ImOnTeamEdward95

How can you hear this is an unisono? (got music exams incomming and could use some help)

[twilightfanatic162]

this is really pretty i love it <3

[LacrimaMax]

It's really nice song. But for me it's quite hard to follow all voices. Poor me.

[generatorium]

Very very exquisite!

[cyberprimate]

Your comment "not in J. S. Bach's league", is both true and unfair. No one is in Bach's league. But one can say that JS Bach was often not in his own league himself, as many of his compositions although always technically good, were not as inspired as this beautiful piece by Krebs. A composer that you made me discover. Thank you.

[Noahedwinbeach2]

I agree...a lot of Bach and Beethoven had technically good pieces but just do not sound as nice. Chopin is one composer I find to have awesome inspired pieces.

[stockcar5472]

I did this notation in BASIC in 1985 when I was 15 on an Acorn Electron! The processor was so slow the bar graph lines appeared before or after the notes played - it was good fun to watch though!

[smalin]

It must have been in the air around that time. I did this notation in 6502 assembler in 1985 on an Atari 800. Because the animation was generated in the vertical blanking interrupt service routine, it was exactly in sync with the audio (the BWV 886 fugue; its four voices stretched the Atari's 8-bit sound to the limit). But I wasn't 15, more like twice that (I got a late start in computers; this was my first "real" project, the one I learned on).

[godsloved3]

makes me think of background music in a menu of some kind lol

[Rasengan572]

@godsloved3 I think it sounds like some random FF music lol. Or any square enix game.

[godsloved3]

hahahahaha wow!!! you are totally right!!! hahaha just running around and whatnot music lol

[Viennaschannel]

This is beautiful, very very beautiful. I have never heard of Krebs before now, but he has definatly inspired me where no other composer could.. thnks for the great vid.

x

[VolkColopatrion]

No one could be as good as Bach, there will never be anyone more skilled at their craft.

However, I enjoy this a little more.

[haecceityofrain]

Wish I had a score for this. Do you ever give links to specific MIDI files?

[smalin]

In response to your request, I have made a score, a part for the oboe, and a MIDI file corresponding to the score. It took me about three hours. The are available as a free download (I've added an item to the FAQ). If you want to encourage this kind of thing, make a PayPal payment to my sales account (message me for the address).

[momma131]

Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with the rest of us. My 10 month old loves to watch these. Perfect way to introduce music to small children. I see on your site you sell the DVD's. We will be making a purchase soon.

[EduardoBrasil10000]

O único Krebs que eu conheço é aquele do ciclo da mitocôndria.

[rafaelGauad]

AHsuhasuhs De fato!

[chapotu]

hehehe eu tambem

[littleChloe22]

Krebs? Hans Krebs, discoverer of the TCA cycle? That's the only Krebs I know...

[nihil1]

There was also a Hans Krebs Nazi General. :P

[tarkle]

This almost makes me think I can visualize the music watching the colors. I feel like I can tune into certain tones (such as bass). It made me actually concentrate and listen to the music, not just hear it. Who would think a few colored bars would make me realize the amazement of this song. I can actually say I enjoyed this song. Tuning in to each part separately made this so much better. Thank you.

[smalin]

Your comment actually brought tears to my eyes. I'm so grateful to have been able to bring you this experience.

[alienhunter96]

this guy and beethoven have the same middle name

[smalin]

... not exactly ...

[alienhunter96]

oh yeah my mistake i saw ludwig and thaught so but LUDWIG is one thing they have in common

[smalin]

Right, but think about how many composers have "Johann" in common ...

[alienhunter96]

yes i guess thats true aswell

[NightHaunted]

The father of Johann Ludwig sent his 3 sons to JSB as pupils. Only JL was dedicated enough to progress sufficiently

The other 2 preferred to another profession.After the family talented persons JLK was the favourite pupil of JSB.Very interesting organ works are available and well playable especially on

an baroque organ.JSB remains the PRIMUS inter PARES however.....

[faisalleszion]

the reason maybe the timbre of the oboe and the organ. The resonance replicates many instruments that came out of arabic hands, like the oboe!!! look the the mijhiz and the shenhai, what westerners see snake charmers playing in the old Indiana jones movie. Speaking as a arab and musician.

[smalin]

Yes, I think you're right. The same piece played on string quartet would not have this effect on

ObliquePerfection92, I would bet (and, conversely, many slow, chromatic pieces played on double reeds would have the effect).

[padresam]

I'll have one of whatever ObliquePerfection92's been on!

[ObliquePerfection92]

I have never done anything of that sort. My imagination is simply very open and explores all that it may.

[K2nsl3r]

this sounds very nice, it has an airy quality to it (also deducible from the title "fantasy"), which means that it never grounds itself, but also that it never really ends, but only dissipates. That's what I get from it anyway, this "aery", ephemeral feel.

[cuallito]

I think Krebs was just as good as Bach actually! He just got shafted because he llived at the end of the baroque era.

[smalin]

It's hard to say. People thought of him as "up there with Bach" as an organist, but as a composer, I'm not so sure. He had Bach as a model, and his music sounds a lot like Bach's. But Bach's model was Buxtehude, whom he very much surpassed. Krebs only wrote a tiny fraction as much as Bach did, because he never got a decent gig. Maybe if he'd gotten more practice as a composer, he would have surpassed Bach. Who knows.

[ipwnallnubscuzirock]

I think its time to build a time machine :P

[ObliquePerfection92]

I love this piece, it sounds so mystifyingly Arabic. The magic feeling which it puts out is absolutely marvelous and enchanting. It reminds me of when I was reading the 1001 Arabian Nights. Five stars.

[ObliquePerfection92]

It also reminds me of ambient music for a garden in the moonlight, the light fragrances of the flowers swirling amongst the notes of the music and a lady wearing a flowing white dress sitting on a small stone bench, holding an ivory coloured rose. Looking upon the reflection of the moon on a small azure pond.

[Tripbag]

This statement reminds me of lyrics in the song Robeson by Saul Williams.

[AsSomedayItMayHappen]

Yeah idk what you've been smoking, any "arabic" elements here are subtle, and few and far between.

[ObliquePerfection92]

I have never smoked anything. My imagination is simply very open and explores all that it may, in this case it gave me a Arabic tone.

[Jirajya]

didnt know Krebs but it sounds really nice.

im not that much into classical music so which colour is which instrument? dark green is oboe and im guessing violet is the english horn although ive never heard of that instrument xD

[smalin]

oboe/english horn/bassoon

... are analogous to ...

soprano saxophone/alto saxophone/baritone saxophone

... or to ...

violin/viola/violoncello

... the Wikipedia entry for "cor anglais" has a picture ...

[TheGuitarguynumber1]

Is there aprogram to write music like this

[ibothebibo]

i dont find this piece very interesting its same notes ever and ever again...

[tararocksyoursox]

How many instruments do you play? Your amazing(:

[minichikiwini]

PRECIOSA!!

[chenierchenier]

smallin are you good like Bach and Mozart?

[smalin]

Are you kidding?!?

No, absolutely not.

Bach and Mozart were talented, inspired geniuses.

I'm just a skilled amateur.

No comparison.

Not even to be mentioned in the same breath.

[colorchanginchev]

if u played this bach stuff u are being too modest.i would kill to have this ability.this is a gift from god

[smalin]

The difference between your ability and mine is much smaller than the difference between my ability and Bach's.

[smalin]

You would be willing to kill for my ability?

Would you be willing to practice?

Would you be willing to practice as much as I did?

It is not a gift from God.

I worked hard.

It's hard to work hard if you don't care enough.

Trust me: if you dedicate yourself to getting better, you will.

[hiddensob]

smalin you've done great work! i love this kind of music, along with metal ;)

[exo762]

So do I. BTW, I recall some results of studies of musical tastes that say fans of metal like classical music.

[smalin]

Interesting; can you find us a cite for those studies?

[hiddensob]

That seems interesting! Could you please post some link or at least some search term that could lead me to those studies? I've had some extensive arguments about whether metal can be considered music as opposed to noise, so some studies like this could really help to enhance my point ;)

[cirro1]

lol... I don't know why but somehow I find this funny. The many lines in the video together with the music. :)

[roymaury]

escuchala en una noche lluviosa...

[Askelairlines747]

its like i heard it in my past life in the 16th or 17th century :-O i think i was in a street

[Aleve909]

ahahaha.

i didnt read the "its like" the first time. that was awkward.

[akcarlton1228]

dis came out pretty good......

[skinnyman1423]

wonderful peice you have to love the classic

[zombiiination]

baroque ;)

[chicafresa6289]

Muchas gracias. Es un buen trabajo. Suerte que gente como usted todavía se apasione y apasione con el noble oficio de las artes musicales. Un transmisor de la obra excelente, un método dinámico genial. Disfrutamos de su constancia.

[irfrapg]

I love the original version with the organ and the oboe, but this one is beautiful too. Such a sweet tune tears are always guaranteed!!! :-)

[benzhobbz]

very romantic, reminds me of some of the modern relaxing pieces.

[youknowhow123]

Wow the citric acid cycle creates music ?!?!?!?!!!!!???

[Blashyrkh22]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe the title of the piece is actually Fantasia in F Minor. Absolutely beautiful piece.

[smalin]

Since "minor" is not a German word, it's not likely to be part of the original title.

[Blashyrkh22]

Well what I meant by that is that the title should be Fantasia, not Fantasie.

[smalin]

Right, and what I meant was that since the word "minor" was translated from German to English, it would be consistent to translate the word "Fantasia" too. The question is: what's the proper translation? When Krebs was alive, the English word "fantasie" was common; nowadays, "fantasy" is standard. If you Google, you'll find all three spellings, as you will if you look at scores from different publishers.

[Blashyrkh22]

Ah ok I understand what you're saying now.

[JAKinit]

Wow you are harsh, sheesh, you act like we drowned your dog?

[smalin]

Yep, that's me --- as harsh as they come.

[NedNefarious]

If all Krebs' pieces sounded like this, he WOULD be in Bach's league. But yeah, they aren't all this good. I could listen to this all day.

[Frascati07]

Wonderful piece, it sets at ease. I just ask myself, whether it would also sound great with string-instrumentation: violin, viola, cello

[MrSuperBallzack]

hah this could be lik the NES version of guitar hero but CLASSICLE HERO!

ROCK OUT WITH BEETHOVEN!!!! =D

i love this music =]

[MrHoppybunny]

that was hilarious

[anelir]

O.O Malice Mizer uses this in one of their songs, beautiful

[smalin]

Really? Which one?

[anelir]

Kyomu No Naka De Yugi. It's a bit different, but it sounds pretty similar, at least in the begining. this song always reminds me of it now XD

[crazyedd123]

i think sibelius needs an update on its sounds

[Radeir1]

Simplesmente genial

ver , ouvir e incorporar - Estrelinhas musicais

[alberto09ggg]

É curioso como esse som é tranquilo e agradável

[1000jamesk]

Realmente! A música parece ser turbulenta e alegre mas é calma e muito bonita. Não sei de onde nosso cérebro tira essa ideia de que algo ousado é similar a algo desagradável, que com certeza nos causará mal. É claro que de uma forma devemos temer coisas muito arriscadas ou impulsivas...

[Synsacrus]

Sibelius for the win.

[morgan115511]

love it, very well put together

[ProgWill91]

This is some well-worked counterpoint. I wouldn't mind listening to a live rendition of this as well.

[1amzie7]

this is actually really nice

[SPLIMLETLET]

Sparkling, shimmering and sweet.

[kubers02]

great!!!

[supersmalleyes]

so nice! mysterious yet beautiful.

[ViktoriaTheresa]

Sounds too much like church music...i don't like it, but although great work!

[sbutton001]

could it be because of the instruments?

[Jochendaspferd]

sehr schönes stück und vor allen dingen hast du es diemal auch sehr gut ein/gespielt

gut arbeit mein freund und viele grüße aus deutschland

very nice song and this time you've played it very well. good work my friend.

greets from germany

[Lyss27PIVI]

thats a beautiful song... very soothing :)

[3cplantin]

Beautiful work again, smalin!

[imogenheap12345]

this song is very soothing

[energycore345]

wow music :D krebs did quite well.

[DostExo]

Is Really amazing

i can get mp3??

Where is the download :S?

[smalin]

You can download the movie right here (for eighty-three cents).

[marcushelbling]

great job!

[lapididepedra]

wow =]

[mindygrahamkrauth]

i love you...!!

thanks for the new post, sweetie!

you know i love your stuff...mindy

[ArcaneWaif]

Poor guy. Krebs in German means cancer, so he probably got a lot of shit from people in his time.

But the piece is alright.

[MusicalEutopia]

That's interesting, because in astrology cancer is represented by a Crab.

[smalin]

Krebs had worse trouble than being called names (like struggling to feed seven kids).

[Totennebel]

Krebs does also mean "crab" in German.

The disease of cancer wasn't even known at his time I think.

[smalin]

"Cancer" meant both "cancer" and "crab" in Latin, long before Johann Ludwig was given his name.

[super6plx]

man I wish the sound still played when you dragged the bar across the video, just watching all of those notes play in about 15 seconds would be awesome

(after properly listening to the whole piece of course. ;P)

[carlwh123]

This is really excellent.

[Kurtyoungblood]

Thanks for another great video, smalin.