Waltz No.1: https://soundcloud.com/tilman-fricke/blue-winter-waltz?si=5a6db26a49ce4106afd94b0ae0fc7ffd&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Written 18th January 2024.
Engraved in Dorico Pro 5.
Performed by Noteperformer 4 plug-in.
© 2024 Tilman Fricke

Piano Solo: Love-Waltz In Golden Winter Sun Op. 13.3 (2024)

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I'm a (former) cellist, soprano recorder-, piano-, etc. -player. The violoncello has inspired me since early childhood. 

1977: Several years soprano recorder solo lessons, private teacher.
1981: Some years private cello lessons with her husband, cellist of Alte Oper Frankfurt/Main.
1985-1991 Cello lessons at the conservatory of Akademie fuer Tonkunst Darmstadt, music theory, ear training courses, 2 years piano lessons ibid. 1st and solo cellist in school orchestra, family chamber music and other occasions, bass in school choir, cornet in my father's car, etc. ... 

I particularly like to think back to the first student exchange between Hungary and Germany in 1989, after the borders were opened, in which I took part twice with the school orchestra of my high school in Szeged in southern Hungary shortly before my ‘Abitur’. Later, I travelled there again privately with my cello.

I grew up in Southern Hesse and began composing in Darmstadt, just before my father was diagnosed with an orange-sized glioblastoma, shortly before Christmas in 1989. 

His passing at the age of 48, nine months later, came at a time when I was preparing for my Abitur in Music and Biology. For finger tendons health reasons, I had to consider music as a hobby after school instead of starting a professional career as a cellist after Gymnasium. Since 1993, I have lent my piano to a family for life, so to speak, with whom I have no contact today. 

After school and then 15 months of diaconal inpatient geriatric care as an alternative to military service, I briefly studied at the tax office authority, but left it soon to pursue a career as a music retailer, specialized in classical and Orff etc. instruments, sheet music, and sound carriers. After IHK and practical examination in Bonn, I managed a ‘one-man’ music store branch for four years. Then I transitioned into the book trade.

Married since 2003 and nowadays living in Baden Wuerttemberg, I'm currently on disability retirement after a shoulder surgery 2014.

But music still lives in me, and I love to compose. You will hear Noteperformer 4 or other software-plugins within Dorico Pro 5 instead of recordings. I use Dorico since September 2023. Prior to this, I used the German Capella program for many years, then also MuseScore for a few months, and, traditional, paper and pencil. 

All of my compositions are available as PDF file sheet music, unless stated otherwise in the description, for noncommercial use upon receiving a personal and confidential request. 

I feel blessed through music, that's why I share it for free. 

The cello works I love the most are the concert pieces for cello and orchestra by Max Bruch, especially Kol Nidrei, which I was taught at the conservatory, and I love the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who took lessons also with Max Bruch. And, of course, I like many more composers and genres/styles as long as they touch my musician's heart...

All photos on my profile and tracks were taken by me.