Family Album...looking at it, reminds a lot...seeing your relatives photos, but never seen them alive, because some photos are shot in the beginning of the last century...then some music idea appears from nowhere, and you put your fingers on the keys...
It took a lot of time and efforts to finish this piano piece:

 

You have to work hard. Composing a real piece and performing it with a piano is one of the hardest things in the world. It requires a lot of everything.

 

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Yes, I already noted this in my post...
and the main reason is the fear of breaking cliches, and different ones at that.
And Chopin helped me overcome them, I have a collection of midi files of different composers, including Chopin...I saw that he can change the meter, tempo, tonality many times during one piece, and this helped me overcome the constraint in breaking the "rules"

 

All those classical composers must have found the rigid old rules suffocating. Like a hacker I abhor state-imposed rules, in music too. Yet I'm continually hunting for songs containing harmonic melodies and vocals to listen to them while doing graphics. But every time I plan to do my own music, I swear to abandon all rules. Like Hendrix played the guitar. I thought he was a junkie, but was humbled to discover he got multiple nervous breakdowns from overwork. Plus he could also sing surprisingly well. :-oOo He couldn't read music! WOW! He didn't want to marry either.

 

You are a quite comfortable player and have skill too. Couple hundred years ago there was a rumor about an ancient mega-piano monster instrument (with a lot more keys, like an organ) that bypassed most if not all musical laws and probably also any basic musical frequency rules as well. The problem with that thing was it was not made for music, but for creating special combined frequency resonant waves to manipulate cellular tissue function in living bodies. As nowadays in nature, there are insects that respond well / attracted to or are repulsed to specific frequencies. You can check out YT videos to which instruments cows and elephants and birds are attracted to.
This ancient mega-piano could change cellular function in living bodies thus was allegedly capable of healing tissues or causing injuries. Its ancient name was Alla Attapan. Imagine the extreme amount of knowledge it required to be played safely. I recently thought about it: what if was given the opportunity just sit down to hit some keys on the thing? But quickly deemed it potentially unsafe for even daring to try to see how it sounds.

 

I say this cautiously because I'm not sure if what I'm saying is true or not. I feel like the piece you wrote is built on unright principles. The principles of music are fixed and cannot be easily broken. Your piece doesn't sound very right to me. Breaking the rules of music demands its own rules. I recommend that you study the rules of music again. Maybe there's no need to break them at all, and everything you need is within the rules.

 

Oh, please...just a couple of examples:
If George Gershwin had strictly adhered to the rules of voice leading, he would never have written Rhapsody in Blue, and if The Beatles had followed the rules, they would not have written Can't Buy Me Love.
PS. As a tag for that piece I added the word "scherzo" to SoundCloud, look at what music critics write about scherzos written by Chopin

 

UNSOLID = Foster = troll. Ignore.

 

Many composers of the 20th century became famous because they created new things. Many of them were unaware of the principles and rules of music and composed songs without knowing those rules. The number of these people is countless, people who became famous for the 20th century's need for innovation. Innovation is a defining characteristic of the 20th century, but many of these innovations have not added anything special to music. Everyone in the 20th century tried to become famous through innovation because the market needed it to sell more. The composers of the previous century are worthy of praise, but their compositions should not be considered a basis for rejecting the principles of music.

 

Now talk about notes