White Sleep
The work juxtaposes texts by different authors, all centering on the theme of “night”. While they are held together by their common subject, they are nevertheless characterised by a broad plurality of styles—Romantic poetry in classic sonnet form versus Expressionistic serialism with no apparent syntactic or semantic coherence—as well as a…
»Chorbuch a tre«
Contribution to Chorbuch a tre (publishers: Reiner Schuhenn, Winfried Bönig, Richard Mailänder, Walter Sengstschmid)
Today an increasing number of church choirs are lamenting the lack of male voices. The present Chorbuch a tre addresses this situation with 160 three-part settings.
The collection, designed for ecumenical use, offers a…
Today an increasing number of church choirs are lamenting the lack of male voices. The present Chorbuch a tre addresses this situation with 160 three-part settings.
The collection, designed for ecumenical use, offers a…
In Principio
Following the extremely arduous and protracted work of composing the Concerto for String Quartet SOLO, this piece was initially conceived as a short and simple work for flute, viola and harp—an instrumentation which preoccupied Debussy among others in one of his late works. However, it soon became clear that for ‘programmatic’ reasons,…
Concerto for String Quartet SOLO
The apparent oxymoron in the title of String Quartet No. 2 refers to a formal peculiarity of the work: four of its five movements end in a solo cadenza for one of the instruments—the fifth movement opens with this cadenza—which forms a recurring theme throughout the work. It is as though we are given the cadenzas of four concerti, two for violin…