Becoming a composer: a good idea or not?

[ibanezmonster]

I would like to transcribe Prokofiev's piano sonatas to string quartet. I can't help feeling he wrote them for the "wrong" instrument.

I can see the 9th or the 7th working out just fine. The others (especially 1, 2 and 6) I just couldn't imagine...

[eyeresist]

Yes, the late ones more than the early ones.

[karlhenning]

Well, follow your bliss, and all that . . . but . . . the late  Prokofiev piano sonatas, written for the wrong instrument? . . . I'm not on board there, at all, at all.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I had the notion once of transcribing the Ring Cycle for string quartet. Fortunately I never followed up on this plan.

[karlhenning]

The string quartet must send you flowers annually, in gratitude ; )

[Cato]

I would like to transcribe Prokofiev's piano sonatas to string quartet. I can't help feeling he wrote them for the "wrong" instrument.

Karl Henning is right!

To quote W. C. Fields on dealing with feelings about exercising, lie on the bed until the feeling goes away!   0:)