Also thank you for the condensed score for reading along. That's a good idea to make the sheet music accessible for following the structures without having to decipher smallest details in a super large score.

Hello, thank you very much for uploading this stunning symphony showing an intriguingly fascinating musical language. I really enjoy experiencing a style of your own with a fascinating amalgam of different stylistic layers that don't fall apart into single sound bites, but contribute to a unique and coheseve whole. There are so many --- quite good and remarkable --- symphonies by younger composers out there on KZfaq that are promising, albeit not yet crossing the line of mere pastiches of existing styles like --- mainly --- Mahler. So, finally there's a voice of someone who already knows what his own language is like and who is able to create a new world of refreshing, exciting, unpredictable but totally convincing music full of very personal ideas and colors! Your free handling of rhythm and meter, your creativity with really interesting orchestral choices, your harmonic richness, the interesting shapes of your thematic material... that all adds up to a characterful personality which I very much appreciate listening to. I would like to invite you --- if you may --- to my KZfaq channel where I just recently uploaded my own first symphony. I signed up as your new subscriber and am really interested in getting to know more of you! I wish you the best and send you my fondlyest greetings, Franz

ahhh this is so surreal! I had no clue that you had a pretty active KZfaq channel! I remember being absolutely obsessed with the Starbound OST when the game came out. I had the soundtrack on the iPod Shuffle, and I distinctly remember pressing the voice-over button and hearing "Vast, Immortal Suns - Curtis Schweitzer" and thinking "Wow this music is so great, it's a shame this artists isn't recognizes so much" and fast forward some years, and like, you made music for freaking *Halo*!! That's so cool! Right before I was typing this, I've been trying to learn M54 on guitar and just decided to search KZfaq for your name and I am so surprised and happy that your still active. You've been a huge inspiration to me and I hope that on my journey to learn music and guitar, I may be able to step into more in depth compositions like the ones you make. (As a side question, if you remember that M54 piece from Starbound... how exactly do you master the timing? I'm still pretty new to guitar, and the piece is so delicate and slow that I struggle timing the notes properly. Is there even a BPM to reference? or did you play by feel?)

The Curtis Deluxe In all seriousness, The Mind is a Shadow. The journey of an aging musician coming to terms with memory loss and the struggle that she can only express through creating music. The melancholy and frustration of losing the memories she held dear. Writing down the ones she can recall. Learning to enjoy what she has left while holding on to what makes her, her. Slowly understanding that she can create new ones, and recall them, with the help of her music.

🥹 SO GOOD!!!!!

Lovely! Which notation software and playback did you use?

I've loved your music since the Starbound days. It is on par with Final Fantasy Tactics Ost, which is my favorite game of all time. Many thanks for this. ❤🙏

I love this

Beethoven, wake up, Schweitzer plays his second symphony Wait, you are deaf, no worries, you can read the notes then!

Growth and Decay

Summer is gone

I was thinking The Time Has Come or Aftermath

JOTTED THOUGHTS: measure 1 Suspense, beauty, curiosity, grand reveal, journey beginning(?), majesty, the music is breathing in & out, measure 32 we’re soaring high! … we’re in the sky now, passed through dark clouds and found a secret beauty within, it’s overwhelming at first but now we are taking in the view and shining ourselves … it feels as though we are harmonious with this ethereal vista … measure 65 we begin to reflect on the journey, the experiences are now getting to us but where we are now has made it worth it … measure 75, we find peace and can rest our mind, now that we are where we are TITLE IDEAS: “Journey to Rapture,” “The Limenavis”/“Bird of the Threshold,” “To Find Serenity”

Lovely track. At first I pictured a vast ocean. Then I felt like I was going through little passages underwater. It gave me a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea vibe. But also, it seemed to show the passage of time. It felt as if the ocean was growing old and reliving memories. Or at least that's how my weird brain worked. These names popped up as I listened. Child of the Sea Aquarium's Clock (Aquarian Clock?) Life Cycle of the Sea The Sea Remembers The Burial at Sea Thanks, Curtis.

Bittersweet Welcoming

I dont fuckin know how to name this, name it yourself old man. I love your music but this track is a bit so-so, i dont really hear a climax or a point to this.

Dawn of the Sun

Trial of the Unknown!

Beautiful lush soundscape! I was wondering when the next video would drop as it's been a while :)

As always, in love with how you develop melodies with octaves and harmonies, and go into the next with such grace ❤️‍🔥 (I wish I knew how to play with dynamics like you do haha)

Beautiful been on the fence about Berlin Strings but this sounds damn realistic. You should pick up Spitfire Appassionata as well, best legato string patches I’ve ever heard!

Это очень замечательно, автор постарался❤

A lot of very impressive and unique textures in this work. Awesome!

i was all the time waiting for the 89 batman motif

I could imagine Stravinsky writing this.

💥💥💥

Feels like a whole fucking fantasy anime episode, i love it Just finished the whole thing, someone hire this man ASAP

Starbound vibes, love it

very noiceeee <3 <3

Muito bom. Obrigado.

More cowbell pls.

The track sounds awesome man. May I know the libraries you have used?

Thank you Curtis very good and a help to me Phil

hey Curtis this is Kade, I wanted to let you know how excited i am about listening to your album Vespers. I have a couple of other questions as well as a message for sharing my support to your work. questions: 1. How Many Albums do you plan to release each year? 2. what do love about releasing your own music along with video game scores? 3. are you planning on releasing your track Promethean Anthem as a single or an album someday? thank you for sharing your music into the world. you style really is moving and useful for background while i'm play writing, gaming and they help with my emotions.

This is so beautiful! And it's amazing you included PDFs of the scores for this album ❤

i absolutely love your music, your music is one of the most beautiful things i ever heard not even kidding

this sounds so sick

Sounds really amazing and beautiful. Big CONGRATS!!! in advance and can't wait to listen to more of this special album.

👀👀👀👀

Can’t wait this sounds like it’s going to be something special!

My family went on a lot of road trips when I was about 12-13, and sometimes we'd drive for 9 or 10 hours at a time. I had about 15 songs of the Starbound soundtrack downloaded, and I'd just listen to them on repeat for the whole ride. I dunno man, my head's still been fried from the short-term dopamine feedback loop but there's something about the stuff you make that just fills my whole brain and when I'm listening to it I don't need to think about anything else. Anyway I used to be in an orchestral band in high school and this one sounds like the one song the director assigns for the last concert of the year that everyone does their best to get perfect even if they're not usually that into it because everyone can just feel how it's supposed to be yknow? And then they keep the memory of it years later. I don't know about names but I'm glad it's here.

Your compositions are always so rich and emotional. They resonate with me on a nostalgic depth.

Maybe something like "Peace of War"?

Again, great as always Curtis!!!! Got a couple ideas from this! I'm getting "Behind their Eyes" because it kinda feels like two oposing themes or "Gossamer" like a spider web that is strong yet fragile, or "Entwined Fate/ Fate(s) Entwined"

Prologue: The Prophecy

unlocking the wind's mystery

oooooooooooo the strings

The way to the stars!

This composition sounds almost like what you would hear during a fantasy film montage where an ancient city is destroyed, setting its people wandering, some as mercenaries, some as refugees, some as seekers of revenge. Broken, uncertain, making their way in a foreign land, and haunted by a past they can never reclaim, they try to hold together their lives with their loved ones despite what (and who) is missing. In that case, I would simply suggest naming it after the town itself. But I do not know what that name is.

Treasures and tales in the knighthood's Storehouse... And it's secret's...