FOUR ETUDES for piano (2020-22) | Frederick Viner

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This is absolutely great Fredrick! You’re truly a mastermind. Keep us posted with more of your compositions please!

Loved these! Thank you for sharing them!

Very reminiscent of Ives, and indeed these pieces have that same inexplicable draw that I feel for Ives' music. Superb work, thank you!

The second one in particular is quite remarkable.

It sounds like it’s 2am, I’m trying to compose music late at night but my little brother is randomly playing piano in the other room.

I adored #1 and #4. The first had the hypnotic, atonal polyphony that simply mesmerized me. So beautiful and so much to absorb! I also loved the playful and jazzy rhythms of the fourth. Being more of a tonal piece, it will be more popularly accessible, but the crunchy chords and rhythm quirks kept it from being predictable. Bravo, Maestro!!

Good to hear that the other three etudes measure up to that toccata. Seriously, keep doing what youre doing: youre a history-grade composer, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Id love to be able to listen to these works in a few decades alongside the other incredible things im sure you will write!

Wonderful works

I really enjoy these. The second one is really something. As if there is a constant feeling of uneasiness and dread that never resolves. Great work!

Fabulous 🎉

How did you create your website to sell your scores and do you use a midi to make these videos if so which one because it sounds really realistic, I’m trying to sell my own scores.

man how do i become this creative, all my sketches are just essentially just romantic in form/structure with a bit modern harmony in places

Absolutely beautiful Frederick. As someone who's very fond of Ligeti's piano music, I especially enjoyed the first one.

These pieces transcend their collective title as most great pieces do. Bravo

Bravissimo! Momenti di grande luminosità 🌥🌤☀️

after a few repeated listens of the toccata and taking in fully all the motifs, in my opinion of course, one of the best pieces ive heard in a long long time. Everything in there is so fresh and original, the last 35 seconds or so are as majestic as they are mad. The meditation as well, really good stuff, defiently going in my s tier playliszt

All of these are fantastic. The ending of the first is magic. The second reminds me of the interstellar soundtrack in some weird way - highly intellectual “outer space music”, I guess? I think my favorite is still the toccata but the second is a close second (ha). You really put a lot of thought into texture as well as harmony.
Do you compose more at or away from the piano? Everything flows naturally, but I’d have a nightmare converting these ideas into legible sheet music.
That being said, this score is beautiful. Like artwork on its own.

amazing rhythms/grooves

Maybe don’t have as much dissonance?

Great!

These are absolutely mind-blowing! I feel like a whole new world of inspiration has been opened for me in the pieces I'm working on, haha. Thank you for writing and sharing these – I think the 2nd is my favorite.

Thank you for your work. I feel like you really found some interesting tonal and rhythmic spaces here. The etudes 2, 3, and 4 especially hang together for me as being a cohesive whole. Happy to have come across your original work after seeing some of your other videos.

Thank you! Lovely music!

Thank you for sharing your work. I’ve been a sub on this channel for a couple of years already and somehow missed this video and I had to comment this time. I wasn’t sure what to make of it at first (especially when listening to the first etude, since I’m not that much of a Ligeti-fan myself) but the set as a whole was and still is very striking to me. Full of colors, both intriguing and fascinating at the same time. Not hell-bent on making each etude a technical or rythmical nightmare without trying first to create music and express something that transcends pure technique. It’s like a story told through different perspectives, each time adding a new layer of magic and culminating in a Toccata for the ages. I can’t tell if it’s your best work yet, but I can confidently say it is the best music I’ve heard by a contemporary composer in a long time. Kuddos to you, and thank you for making us a part of your journey as a composer. Until next time!

Flyby is truly something else...

The second one is great.

The first is also very good, but just a bit too far out, "not like regular music" for me.

The third and the fourth: sorry, didn't get them. Should listen to them again.

Incredible works. My personal favourites are 1 and 2 -- simply stunning, and such intense evocations! Thank you so much for sharing these gems.

Among other things I really love the use of grace notes in your work. It sounds so crystaline.

I really love your harmonic language. I especially adore the polytonality of the first etude. I tend to get frustrated easily listening to music where I can’t latch onto a tonal language, but superimposing those two sonorities upon each other makes for a really exotic and tonal adjacent experience. I love it!!

And I love Ligeti! What do you mean by Ligeti-an tempo fugue?

Beautiful works! I love your use of counterpoint and the harmonic language, also very evocative and colorful characters! True masterpieces!

First one reminds me a bit of Szymanowski. I enjoyed your music a lot! 😁👌🏼

I come back to this video once in a while because I love the way Etude 3 is notated. Super clear exactly what the intent was in each section, and surprisingly easy to read

This is more of a sonata than a set of etudes.

So beautiful!

This is remarkable stuff. I had only heard your comparably "simple" and more immediately accessible works before, however this set is next level. Unfortunately beyond my technical capacity to play (for now).
Please keep composing! Hope your works become more widely known so I can hear them performed live some time!

Absolutely fantastic!!

What were the exact settings or preset that you used for the CFX Concert Grand Piano to render this 'mock up'?
This is by far the most convincing and realistic piano performance I've ever heard on a MIDI instrument. I have the same VST, but I'd love to know which settings you used.
The music is of course incredible too, which helps, haha

Stunning stuff! Even without any of your descriptions in mind, these works are so lushly evocative it feels super weird even thinking of them as etudes. The toccata in particular is one of the most ecstatic things I've heard.

At multiple points here I was reminded a bit of Ravel (some of the lines here seem right out of Ondine, albeit in a much more polyphonic context), which should count as the highest possible praise!