FANTASIE ON BAGATELLE No.  4
for Chamber Orchestra

Adapted & Orchestrated by W. Brent Sawyer
original piano piece by Paul Merkus
9/19/2021
approx. length: 6:05 minutes

A thank you to Paul Merkus who kindly allowed me permission to arrange his beautiful Piano Solo, BAGATELLE No. 4. Paul's original Piano Solo version can be seen here.

I immediately fell in love with this Piano Solo the first time I listened to it.I heard many things in it that sparked new creatively in me. I recently added some new sample libraries to my toolbox of sounds and wanted to try them out as well as practice orchestrating and thought Bagatelle No. 4 would be fun to use. Paul graciously said I could play around with his piece and here is what came about. It was very interesting to change the tonal modes, keys, and even meters of the piece. 

Paul's original piece has 3 separate Themes (melodies). 

In my video I label each section and say some of the additions I incorporated to it. I really give myself permission to try anything here. I did not follow the original form of the piece too much about introducing the 3 Themes and just used them in different orders.
I really like the two 5/8 sections I created. Very fun. 

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