What an accomplished composition. The strings are divine - so rich and warm in tone, and the layering is as always so on point. Very moving. JX

Thanks for sharing Mariza, very nice movement !

Thanks for sharing this impressionable work Mariza.

Wonderful and great music, awesome orchestration! Thank you, Mariza!

I really like the textural feel to this..I also like your profile writing,I am not a musician so my sketches are also intuitive...

This is beautiful Mariza.  Thank you for posting.

Composed 1926-27 by Luíz de Freitas Branco (1890-1955), his 2nd symphony was dedicated to one of his sisters (Maria Cândida Freitas Branco) on the occasion of her joining the monastery of the Carmelitas Descalzas in Spain, and is based on Gregorian chant (so I'm told...). Here is movement 2 (Andantino con moto), played by Ireland's RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Álvaro Cassuto. This symphony has 4 movements (of which this is the least complex) and this RTÉ performance (my favorite interpretation of all available) can be purchased here: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/3175513?ev=rb

From the CD blurb: "The use of Gregorian chant is the consequence of the fact that Freitas Branco's sister, to whom the work is dedicated, had become a nun in a Carmelite monastery in Spain. This event left a strong mark on Luis de Freitas Branco, who by nature and belief, did not follow the principles of the Catholic faith in which he had been brought up."

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Luíz de Freitas Branco - Symphony 2 mov 2 (1927)

I am a scientist who started composing music as a hobby in 2013. I have not studied composition and do not approach it analytically, only intuitively. I took piano lessons in my childhood and teens, but spent most of my adult life without playing piano until 2013. So far I have composed mostly for piano, in a polyphonic style that borrows from the Baroque as well as the Romantic spirit. I describe my style as "Baroquemantic". 

Most of my piano pieces are easy to play.  Some are very easy to play.  

All of my pieces rely on 2 or more concurrent melodies (counterpoint).

Art shown above: Image of clockwork heart found on the internet without attribution.
 
A Portuguese guy called "Carlos Miguel" wrote the following on YouTube and  I think this is so so so so true! I will be quoting him everywhere I can:
"...a boa música é como as boas palavras, depende de quem as diz e de quem as ouve...podem não vir a ser nada e podem ser tudo...ou ambas as situações em simultâneo...genial também é quem ouve...pelo seu modo de ouvir... e não só quem  compõe...pelo seu modo de compor...Carlos Miguel"

Freely translated from Carlos Miguel: "...Good music is like good words... it depends on who utters and who listens... it can be nothing or it can be everything... or both simultaneously... for there to be a work of genius there needs to be a genius listener as well as a genius composer..."

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