Beethoven: Heiliger Dankgesang (Part One)

My arrangement of the third movement to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 in A Major, Op. 132. The movement is marked Molto adagio — Andante, and is subtitled Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart ("Convalescent's Hymn of Thanksgiving to the Divinity in the Lydian Mode"). As always, this transcription is no substitute for the original, but it pains me not to be able to play music like this. Let me know what I can do to improve.

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• op132

[Zachfive87]

WD-40 that squeaky ass chair. Otherwise awesome.

[BooteeDesigns]

lovely :)

[kmatson07]

Its really wonderful, thank you for this gift. Consider traveling and giving recitals with your transcription. Bravo!!

[asemtu]

lo mejor el encuadre!

[leomulder]

It's so beautiful! But don't be afraid of sustaining all the tempo of the large chords!

[eckarteckart]

What a difference to the string quartet version! I remains an experiment. That's why it sounds so brisk and marchy. Strings can sustain the notes, piano cannot (except great pianists, who semm to sustain..., you know what I mean, if you are professional). Just diligent, but (for me) in vain.

[skagnfka]

If you can somehow share the sheet music for your arrangement it would be very appreciated. It also pains me not to be able to play music like this. please, i beg you

[weepingforbrunnhilde]

Yes! Varying the dynamics in the trill! Excellent suggestion.

[weepingforbrunnhilde]

First impression, at the beginning, is it's too brisk, too marchy. Not weighty enough. Also, something of the mystery is lost, but that's largely because so much of it is created by the timbre of the strings interacting.

Thanks so much for playing for us!

Bravo!

[norcalrobbie2]

Nice! You might want to pay a bit more attention to voicing & phrasing so that the long sections sound less like successive chords and more like 4 individual voices (it's a 4-voice hymn, after all). I like how you executed that part beginning at 2:20. Maybe quicken the tempo here, for contrast. Try to vary the dynamics in that long trill to make it more interesting. Again, a little more attention to phrasing and voices. This is a really good transcription! I like it a lot.