UE Newsletter Winter 2005 English by Universal Edition

04 New representation for UE in US. Music publisher Theodore Presser Company starts UE representation on 1 January 2005.

07 Birthday approaching. Pierre Boulez celebrates his 80th birthday on 26 March 2005.

20 Janácek viewed cinematically. New animated movie of "The Cunning Little Vixen” on DVD.

42 Georg Friedrich Haas. Updated worklist inside.

Wolfgang Rihm

newsletter 01/05 • winter 2004/2005

Contents

NEWS Representation — 4 Hire and Sales Material — 4 COMPOSERS Rihm — 5 Halffter — 6 Boulez — 7 Sotelo — 8 Baltakas — 9 Staud — 11 Pärt — 12 Berio — 13 Cerha — 14 Haas — 14 Sawer — 15 Feldman — 15 Furrer — 16 Schnyder — 16 Mozart 2006 — 18 - 19 Janácek — 20 Mahler — 21 Krása — 22 Berg — 23 Bartók — 24 Kodály — 24 Krenek — 25 Martin — 26 Weill — 27 Martinu — 28 Schmidt — 28

Dear reader, dear Mozartprogrammer, REDISCOVERIES Zemlinsky — 29 Edmund von Borck — 29 - 30 Rieti — 30 Alfvén — 31 Atterberg — 31 REVIEWS Schreker — 32 Birtwistle — 33 Bennett — 33 ANNIVERSARIES — 34 - 35 WORLD PREMIÈRES — 37 NEW RELEASES — 38 - 39 NEW ON CD + DVD — 40 - 41 WORKLIST Haas — 42 - 44

we would like to thank you for the numerous positive reactions to our Newsletter's new format. They confirm our belief that there is a need for concise and clearly structured information on the music, composers and activities of UE. It may surprise some to find themselves reading about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the editorial of this second volume. But Mozart's 250th anniversary in 2006 is of twofold importance to UE: firstly due to the results of the latest research on Mozart interpretation (Wiener Urtext Edition), and secondly thanks to all the new, exciting and highly individual ways in which our composers continue to deal with the phenomenon of Mozart. You can read more about Mozart - viewed and heard anew on page 18 -19. The editors

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REPRESENTATION

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HIRE AND SALES MATERIAL

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RIHM

Three decades of music The coming months have in store a decidedly divers selection of Wolfgang Rihm's rich oeuvre. Few contemporary composers have been able to enjoy seeing their music become part of the concert repertoire to such an extent. Indeed, conductors and ensembles now turn to Rihm's compositions as a matter of course, thus contributing to a living tradition of interpretation. Christoph Eschenbach is to conduct Musik für Klarinette und Orchester (soloist: Jörg Widmann) on 17 and 18 Dec in Hamburg; Marek Janowski will lead a performance of Sotto voce with the RSB and Majella Stockhausen (piano) in Berlin (13 Jan); Ensemble Modern will present Jagden und Formen to the Irish public on 20 Feb in Dublin; Peter Rundel is to conduct the string orchestra pieces Ländler and Erscheinung with the Jonge Filharmonie in Courtrai/B on 12 March; the Minguet Quartet will be playing String Quartet No. 3 in Duisburg on 27 Feb 2005; Ensemble Recherche will bring Drei Vorspiele zu einer Insel (flute, violin, percussion) back to Freiburg, the city where it was premièred, on 7 Dec.

We can also look forward to three Rihm premières: the Basel Sinfonietta commissioned an orchestration of the songs for tenor entitled Rilke: Vier Gedichte (2000); soloist: Christoph Prégardien, conductor: Emilio Pomarico (10 Dec), the Philharmonie Köln has commissioned Trio for flute, violine and cello (20 January), and Über-Schrift for 2 pianos will be premiered at the Vienna Konzerthaus on 16 January 2005.

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HALFFTER

Music for Madrid and Dresden For the occasion of his 75th birthday, Christóbal Halffter (born on 24 March 1930) was invited by the Dresden Philharmonic to compose an orchestral work. Palimsesto for timpani and orchestra will receive its première on 5 Feb 2005 at the Kulturpalast in Dresden, conducted by Pedro Halffter and with Alexander Peter, timpani; the piece is dedicated to the memory of longserving artistic director Olivier von Winterstein. Palimsesto means to write or paint something anew on a page or a canvas on which something has already existed. … I used this process on a piece which I had composed

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back in 1956. Of this score, I left only the formal structure intact. Over it I laid sound surfaces of various dynamic densities, resulting from my experience during the nearly 50 years spent composing since then. Hence, Palimsesto is a "new" score in which the "old" elements can still be heard, depending on where we focus our eyes or our ears. (Halffter) In celebration of the 100th birthday of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Halffter wrote Eritaña for orchestra, an arrangement of the original piano piece Eritaña from Isaac Albeniz' piano cycle Iberia. The orchestra is given the role of the main instrument. World première: 30 December 2004, Teatro Real, Madrid, c. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

BOULEZ

80th Birthday approaching … It will be a special birthday indeed: his 80th, on 26 March 2005. One easily gets the impression that the entire musical world is hastening to prepare. After all, this is the birthday of a personality who, for decades, has made his mark on the musical scene like none other - perhaps even becoming its very symbol. It is about a composer who, with his compositions, writings, teaching and interpretations, as well as with the foundation of IRCAM and Ensemble Intercontemporain, has had an epochal influence. It is about a man who, even today, pursues an utterly astounding array of activities with unbelievable strength and energy, providing us all with an example of how one can continue treading one's chosen path at an advanced age. In everything Pierre Boulez does, he serves the music of today and of tomorrow. Over the next few months, he will be conducting several works in Paris (cummings ist der dichter, Dérive 2, Notations I-IV, VII), New York (Dérive 2), Munich, Cologne and Amsterdam (Domaines). Notations I-IV will also be performed by Barenboim in Berlin, David Robertson

and Ensemble Intercontemporain will perform …explosante-fixe…, Zsolt Nagy will conduct the RAI-Orchestra in Figures-Doubles-Prismes in Turin, Ensemble Alternance under Robert HP Platz will play a birthday concert in Düsseldorf (Dérive 1, Dialogue de l'ombre double et al), and Vienna's Konzerthaus will stage a Boulez marathon with works for piano.

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SOTELO

Dance into the center of sound At a benefit concert for UNICEF on 6 Dec 2004 in Florence, Mauricio Sotelo's Cuaderno de Danzas for violin and ensemble will be given its world première by the Contempoartensemble. From a 'kaleidoscopic' perspective, it touches upon the sounds and echoes of old flamenco dances …. A 'Fanfarria' (show-off) gets us acquainted with the multifarious being of a dance which is fast, passionate, stirring, ecstatic and burlesque, while always bearing massive confusion within. Here, dance means a dance into the center of sound, not an actual dance: felt or sung by a violin… (Sotelo)

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Beat Furrer, who celebrates his 50th birthday on 6 December, received the dedication of the work Wall of light red - for Beat Furrer for saxophone and chamber ensemble, which Klangforum Wien will première on this date in Graz. Sotelo took his inspiration for the piece from the Irish painter Sean Scully and his pictures Wall of light … (red, black, brown…), which Sotelo considers to be among the most intense works of contemporary painting. Here I allow myself to quote Scully himself, whose view of his work has a lot to do with my own musical viewpoint at the moment: 'I am trying to give light a feeling of body… The words light and spirit are interchangeable in my opinion. I'm trying to capture something that has a classical stillness and at the same time has enough emotion or dissonance to create an unresolved quality…'

BALTAKAS

Mountain and stone Asked about the latest part of a cycle to be written for the festival ‘das neue werk’ in Hamburg (première on 24 February 2005), Vykintas Baltakas answers with a metaphor: What is a cycle? You stand on a mountain top and have a stone lying before you on the ground. Anything is possible, you are still free. But you want to use this freedom. So you move the stone, at which point its own life begins. How it falls and what else happens as a consequence depends on innumerable factors. One can also imagine a mountain without beginning and without end, with countless stones capable of moving in all directions, even upwards. I know I need only move the first stone. Everything else I can only observe and note. My field of vision is limited; my impressions can result only in a mosaic-like image of the mountain. And that is a cycle.

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STAUD

A map is not the territory Following the successful Japanese premiĂ¨re (25 August 2004, Tokyo Sinfonietta, c. Yasuaki Itakura), Johannes Maria Staud's A Map is not the territory (2001) for large ensemble is about to receive its US premiĂ¨re. HK Gruber will conduct the New World Symphony on 22 January 2005 in Miami (see also Friedrich Cerha). The title of this work refers to the theory of Alfred H. Korzybski (1880 1950) who developed 'General Semantics' in his principal work 'Science and Sanity'. Elaborating on the idea behind the title, the composer writes:

Is the acoustic result not dependent upon the way in which the performers follow - interpret - the map? Does this not indicate the presence of an additional quality, indispensable to the effect of music? Something, without which the symbols and notational markings on the page would never "come to life", without which no poetic meaning could be made accessible through them?

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PÄRT

Of pilgrims' songs and swarms of bees New York: With a "Special tribute to Arvo Pärt", the New York ensemble Continuum, led by Joel Sachs, will offer a cross-section of Arvo Pärt's chamber and string music at Hunter College on 5 Dec. The programme includes: Wallfahrtslied (in the rarely heard quartet version), Summa, Es sang vor langen Jahren, Passacaglia, Darf ich…, Trisagion, Orient & Occident, Silouan's Song, Fratres and 2 Wiegenlieder.

los, will be given its first performance in Paris (6 Dec 2004) by the Octour de Violoncelles de Beauvais, which also played the world première in May 2004 with soloist Barbara Hendricks. The soloist in Paris will be Kaoli Isshiki. The private French classical station Radio Classique will broadcast the world première concert on 16 December. Copenhagen: Alexei Lubimov will be the soloist in the Danish première of Lamentate for piano and orchestra with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, c. Andrey Boreyko, on 10 February. Hamburg: A few days prior (23 January), Andrey Boreyko conducts the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in Pärt's Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte for piano, wind quintet, string orchestra and percussion. In this work, Pärt quite unconventionally writes out the B-A-C-H motif as a string tremolo which crescendos into a giant swarm of bees. A calm, contemplative second part concludes this 8-minute work.

Paris: Pärt's latest work, L'abbé Agathon for soprano and 8 cel-

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BERIO

Master of interaction Brussels: Belgium's Ictus Ensemble, in co-operation with the Kaaitheater, will shed light on some of the many facets of Luciano Berio's oeuvre on 18 Dec: universality and virtuosity, eroticism and revolt, and of course Berio's indefatigable search for the roots of language. Alongside Ricorrenze for wind quintet (1987) and Linea for 2 pianos, vibraphone and marimba (1973), the focus is also on Circles for harp, mezzo-soprano and percussion (1960) and Naturale for viola, percussion and tape (1985). Circles was the result of an interaction between Cathy Berberian and 3 instrumentalists. In Naturale, Berio - starting with Sicilian folk songs and the impressively original voice of

folk singer Peppino Celano - developed a stream of harmonising contrasts. Soloists: Paul De Clerck, vla, Maria Husmann, Mezzo. Helsinki: SOLO for trombone and orchestra, premiĂ¨red in 1999 by Christian Lindberg in Zurich, has become one of Berio's most successful concert pieces, and Lindberg has since performed it in all the important musical centres of the world. On 21 Jan, he plays this piece in Helsinki (Finnish RSO). Amsterdam: On 16-17 Dec, SOLO will also be on the programme of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra (soloist: JĂśrgen van Rijen). Turin: Roberto Abbado, a passionate interpreter of Berio's oeuvre, will conduct Epiphanies for female voice and orchestra with the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI on 13 January 2005.

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CERHA

Impulse in the US Commissioned by the Vienna Philharmonic in 1992/1993, Impulse for large orchestra (23') was premièred shortly after Friedrich Cerha's 70th birthday, in 1996, under André Previn. The work's US première will be conducted by Heinz Karl Gruber with the New World Symphony on 22 January in Miami. In contrast to many of his colleagues, Cerha has never been hesitant to furnish his new works with revealing and detailed introductory texts. Of this composition, he writes: Formally, Impulse is a very diverse, rich piece, also containing stark contrasts in the emotional sense. Forms of a powerful, passionate nature alternate with ones of more peaceful, meditative, elegiac expressivity. Sometimes they are juxtaposed in a harsh, abrupt way. The basis for the pitch organisation is a five-tone row…

HAAS

New Catalogue In this Newsletter one can again find an updated composer’s catalogue, that of Georg Friedrich Haas (pp. 42 - 44); a printed version will soon follow. Haas is currently working on a piece for baritone and ensemble commissioned by the Witten New Music Days. Three ensemble works by Haas will be heard in December: "…Schatten … durch unausdenkliche Wälder" (1992) on 7 December in Geneva; Tria ex uno (1991) on 16 December in Wuppertal; and Nach - Ruf … Entgleitend (1998/99) on 20 December in Essen.

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SAWER

Rebus in London Following musikFabrik's successful world première of David Sawer's ensemble work Rebus comes the UK première, this time performed by the London Sinfonietta and David Porcelijn at the QEH (19 February 2005). Part of a day entitled Inventions 2005, other works by Sawer to be performed are Cat's-Eye (also by the London Sinfonietta) and Sounds (BBC Singers). Meanwhile, Tiroirs, which was performed in Denmark in November, will receive its Portuguese première on 28 February 2005, when Susanna Mälkki conducts BCMG.

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FELDMAN

Morton, Morton, Morton ... From 8-15 January, the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich will once again present Morton, Morton, Morton, an evening of music, dance, text and silence based on For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman - at centre is the composer's passionate love of sound, while ample space and time are also given over to silence. (Direction: Joachim Schlömer, piano: Markus Hinterhäuser) The Staatstheater Stuttgart has been presenting a new production of Feldman's opera Neither since 31 October (further performances: 4 Dec 2004, 20 and 21 Jan 2005). The composer wrote this work in 1976/77 after a text written for him by Samuel Beckett. The unusual libretto, without roles or stage directions, resulted in an abstract opera devoid of characters and scenery (conductor: Roland Kluttig, direction: Studio Azzurro, soloist: Anu Komsi).

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FURRER / NERUDA

Dort ist das Meer, nachts steig ich hinab For one of the concerts in his ‘das neue werk’ festival in Hamburg, Richard Armbruster has programmed Beat Furrer's piece Dort ist das Meer - Nachts stieg ich hinab, composed in 1985/86 (NDR Symphony Orchestra and Choir, c. Peter Eötvös, 25 February 2005). With reference to the poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, Furrer remarks that it is an expression of despair over past tragedy, misery, and the Mapocho River as its witness, born of snow, sprung from the beak of an eagle, winding through the "valley of ashes". … The increasingly intense cries of the poet, the fearful questions … are answered with silence. Neruda's text was not used here as a programmatic model for the composition of the music. Since only fragments of his text were used, it was possible to subjugate the language to the musical composition.

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SCHNYDER

Portrait concert in Winterthur The Musikkollegium Winterthur, a long-standing partner of Daniel Schnyder, will present a concert portrait concert of Schnyder on 26 January 2005. The Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur under Kristjan Järvi will interpret his Trumpet Concerto (Reinhold Friedrich, trp.), Concerto and Ritus from Symphonic Encounters with South Africa. Schnyder's oeuvre is marked by an openness to the entirety of his own musical experience, where twelvetone music sits equally next to Bach and jazz.

furrer / schnyder

MOZART

Viewed and heard anew The relationship between Universal Edition and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is twofold, and both of these aspects will be playing a prominent and important role in Mozart Year 2006: The Wiener Urtext Edition is at work on new editions of Mozart's most important piano work - editions which will take into account new and surprising findings that make a new interpretation of the musical text necessary.

These findings will no doubt have a powerful impact on performance practice, particularly in light of the now certain fact that Mozart viewed improvisatory elements as being integral to his works. The second aspect has to do with the influence of Mozart on the composers of our time, who, decade after decade, have repeatedly brought forth works that deal with Mozart in the most diverse ways. A detailed catalogue of these Mozart related 20th and 21st century works can be found on our website, at www.mozart-noten.com

A review of Mozart related works: Walter Braunfels Don Juan for large orchestra (reference to Don Giovanni)

1920 - 1924 18’

Gottfried von Einem Steinbeis-Serenade for 8 instruments (variations on a theme from Don Giovanni)

1980 - 1981 13’

Georg Friedrich Haas "... sodaß ich's hernach, gleichsam wie ein schönes Bild... im Geist übersehe" for strings (reference to the 2nd movement of Sonata in B major K454) Frank Martin Ouverture en hommage à Mozart for orchestra

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1990/91 16’ 1956 7’

Arvo Pärt Mozart-Adagio for violin, cello and piano (reference to the Adagio of Sonata in F major, K 280)

1992, rev. 1997 6’

Wolfgang Rihm Sotto voce Notturno for piano and small orchestra (suitable for Mozart concert programme) Alfred Schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum / Not after Shakespeare for large orchestra (Mozart / Schubert related Rondo) Alfred Schnittke Moz-art à la Haydn (rights only for Austria) Play with music for 2 violins, 2 small string orchestras, double bass and conductor (Pantomime K 416 d)

1999 14’

1984/85 10’

1976 - 1978 8’

Divertimento für Mozart - 12 aspects of the aria "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich" for soloists and orchestra Collective work of 12 composers: Gottfried von Einem, Luciano Berio, Heimo Erbse, Peter Racine Fricker, Niels Viggo Bentzon, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Giselher Klebe, Gerhard Wimberger, Maurice le Roux, Jacques Wildberger, Maurice Jarre, Hans Werner Henze

1956

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orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the première is on 19 Feb 2005.

JANÁCEK

viewed cinematically From the House of the Death can surely be viewed as the great musical legacy of Leos Janácek, impressive proof of the composer's artistic refinement. He created the work in 1927/28, in anticipation of the industrial-scale mass murder of human beings in concentration camps. German film-maker Volker Schlöndorff, known particularly for his international film successes Der junge Törless, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum and Die Blechtrommel, has worked with this opera once before, in Paris during the 1980s. And his new production at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin is the subject of eager anticipation. Christian Thieleman will conduct the

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Starting from the original 1920s drawings which inspired Janácek to compose his Cunning Little Vixen, Geoff Dunbar created a cartoon version of the opera for the BBC, a version which has now been brought to the market as a DVD (Opus Arte OA 0839 DVD). A whole palette of new animation techniques was developed in order to lend the pictures the necessary depth and dimension. A sympathetic arrangement of the score lasting for one hour's duration and the subsequent musical execution were in the hands of Kent Nagano and the DSO Berlin, plus an ensemble of young singers. Janácek's opera on the cycle of life, death and new life is a story filled with love, humour and tragedy. Dunbar's cartoon characters underline the drama, humour and depth of feeling present in this work. An experience for all age groups!

MAHLER

His 10th Symphony has 5 movements, Das klagende Lied has 3! Numerous experts, aiming to create a complete and logical work from the framents of Gustav Mahler's 10th Symphony, failed to do so in the true spirit of the composer. Rudolf Barshai also dared an attempt, and the results of his efforts have since met with unanimous approval. Barshai had of course the advantage of sources to which others had not had access. On 27 November, he conducts the 10th Symphony in Japan (Gunma SO) for the second time. Opus 1, as Mahler himself called Das klagende Lied even many years later, originated with the 3 sections Waldmärchen, Der Spielmann and Hochzeitsstück. We can only speculate as to the reason why Waldmärchen was omitted at the première. Only now is the original, 3 movement version returning to concert halls, such as on 12 and 13 December 2004, with the Staatsorchester Stuttgart under Lothar Zagrosek.

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HANS KRÁSA 1899 - 1944

The work of a mature apprentice Hans Krása is much more than the composer of the children's opera Brundibar, with which he is typically associated. UE recognised his outstanding talent early on and published his first orchestral work: Orchestral Songs op. 1 (1920), composed at the age of 21. Krása's teacher, Alexander Zemlinsky, probably put in a good word for him with director Emil Hertzka. Zemlinsky, after all, had conducted the première at a

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graduation concert in Prague's conservatoire in 1921. The 8 minute work for voice and orchestra is a setting of four Galgenlieder by Christian Morgenstern. On 12 February in Amsterdam, it will have its Dutch première: Gerd Albrecht will conduct the Radio Symfoni Orkest with Michelle Breedt, mezzosoprano. The concert is part of Jan Zekveld's festival dedicated to so-called "degenerate music".

BERG

Wozzeck in Tel Aviv Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, a milestone of 20th century operatic history, is to see its first ever performance in Israel: a new production of this masterpiece is being mounted by the Israel Opera in Tel Aviv in cooperation with the Wiesbadener Maifestspiele. This complex and highly expressive opera, inspired by Georg Büchner's dramatic fragment Woyzeck, was composed between 1914 and 1921 and was premièred with overwhelming success by Erich Kleiber on 14 December 1925 at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin; it has since gone on to become one of the most performed classical stage works of the modern era. In Tel Aviv, the Israel Opera will be performing Wozzeck as staged by Manfred Beilharz, a production which was premièred in April 2003 in Wiesbaden and was celebrated by audiences and the press with equal enthusiasm. Ascher Fisch will conduct the Israel SO and Andreas Scheibner will sing the title role in nine performances at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center (16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26 February 2005).

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programmed in Berlin under Michael Gielen (1-2 Feb) and in Paris under Kirill Karabits (6-8 Jan). Steven Sloane will conduct the suite from the pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin on 13 Feb in Bochum, and Peter Eötvös will conduct performances in Stuttgart (19-21 Jan) and Hamburg (25 Feb).

KODÁLY

Psalmus and Dances Zoltán Kodály

BARTÓK

from Bratislava to Nagoya The National Theatre in Slovakia's capital, where Béla Bartók and his mother lived in 1892/93, is to stage two of his three one act works - the opera Bluebeard's Castle and the ballet The Wooden Prince (première on 15 January 2005). A week later, the ballet will also open at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duisburg (22 Jan); Bluebeard will see a semi-staged performance in Nagoya on 11 Feb. The suite from the ballet has been

Psalmus hungaricus, generally akknowledged to be one of the greatest choral works of the 20th century, will be performed on 28 Jan at the St. Nikolauskirche in Aachen (Collegium Musicum of the RWTH Aachen under Hub. Pittie). In his psalm, composed in 1923, Zoltán Kodály used the words of a medieval Hungarian preacher to criticise the conditions of his own day. During the next few months, two Kodály favourites - Marosszék Dances and Dances from Galánta will be heard in Zurich (28 - 30 Jan) and in Koblenz (23 January 2005).

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KRENEK

Ernst-KrenekInstitute Private Foundation in Krems 12 September 2004 saw the opening of the Ernst-Krenek-Institute Private Foundation in Krems, Austria. Ernst Krenek, who left Austria following the Anschluss of 1938, settled in California, where he died in 1991. His widow, Gladys N. Krenek, has since done much to promote the appreciation of his oeuvre. In February 2004, she founded the Ernst-Krenek-Institute Private Foundation with the support of Austria's federal government and the Province of Lower Austria. The Foundation exists to collect and house Krenek’s entire legacy permanently in Krems, making this city the composer's new home. The Foundation is dedicated to the research, presentation, support and promotion of Ernst Krenek's work. Krenek's 2-part opera Jonny spielt auf, premièred in 1927 in Leipzig and performed thereafter on over 70 European stages, will be performed on 24 February 2005 at the Cologne Opera in Günter Krämer's production which was premièred at the Vienna State Opera on 16 De-

cember 2002. Musical direction: Ryusuke Numajiri, Gürzenich Orchester Köln. Further performances: 26 Feb and 4, 6, 11, 13, 16, 19, 23 and 27 Mar 2005. Fragmente aus Karl V for soprano and orchestra will be heard on 26 Feb in Eindhoven with Marc Soustrot and Het Brabants Orkest. Capriccio recently released Krenek's three one act works Der Diktator, Schwergewicht oder die Ehre der Nation and Das geheime Königreich (Capriccio, 2 CDs, 60107).

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MARTIN

30th anniversary of death On 21 Nov, the musical world will remember the 30th anniversary of Swiss composer Frank Martin's passing. In the three decades following his death, interest in his work has by no means decreased - a positive sign which testifies to the vitality of his diverse oeuvre. Martin was a deeply religious person, and he gave voice to his faith in a number of gripping compositions. In Golgotha, he created a dramatic and moving Easter oratorio, and Le Mystère de la nativité is a recounting of the Christmas mystery which allows for a staged production. For the opera house, he created Der Sturm after Shakespeare's Tempest and the musical comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac after Molière. Numerous concert works have found their way into the international repertoire, above all Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann for baritone and orchestra, Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion and strings, Petite symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord, piano and two string orchestras, and the violin concerto Polyptyque.

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Martin's written statements bear witness to the great sense of responsibility with which he approached his vocation. One's inner sense must always watch over both heavenly inspiration and conscious invention. … It is not an attitude of rational coolness, but rather one's passion that must be merciless … opposing everything that does not conform to one's intent, no matter where it comes from.

WEILL

Off to Mahagonny...! Part 2 In the last issue of our Newsletter, we wrote of the turbulence surrounding the creation of the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - as well as about the current, successful productions in Nuremberg and Darmstadt. In January 2005, three Italian opera houses will be co-producing a new production directed by Daniele Abbado and conducted by Jonathan Webb: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (28 and 30 Jan, 1, 3, 4, and 5 Feb), I Teatri di Reggio Emilia (12 and 13 Feb), and Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari (4 and 6 March). A further new production in Pforzheim, under the musical direction of Jari Hämäläinen and the stage direction of Jochen Biganzoli, will be premièred on 4 February. An evening of a special sort awaits the audience of the Klubhaus-Akzente Concert in Zurich on 25 November: this evening is dedicated to Lotte Lenya. Weill gave his music to her voice, and Lenya gave her voice to his music. And the two lived ever after in constant symbiosis, in a roller-coaster marriage rife

with disloyalties and affairs. In spite of everything, the two were unable to let go of one another, connected by a spiritual link originating in Mahagonny, a city of anarchy, free love and anti-bourgeois rebellion. UE composer and saxophonist Daniel Schnyder will retrace this unique voice with his "Lenya" improvisations. And in the second half of the evening, the Songspiel will take us back to Mahagonny.

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MARTINU

The Greek Passion

SCHMIDT

The funeral The large-scale, grand opera The Greek Passion by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu (after Nikos Kazantzakis' novel Christ Recrucified, 1948) had a long and painful genesis. We wrote about this at length on the occasion of the original English language version's première at the Bregenz Festival in 1999, and again for the British première at Covent Garden in 2000 and the German première at the Bremer Theater in 2003. On 16 January 2005 comes the next step: The Greek Passion, which can also be interpreted as a refugee drama and is thus lent a sad topicality, arrives back in the homeland of the composer in a new production at the National Theatre of Brno. The main roles in the opera are played by the choir of refugees and the villagers, in keeping in line with the intent of Kazantzakis: he wanted the work to be above all, an opera of the masses.

march that shocks Franz Schmidt’s Symphony No. 4 is one of those rediscoveries which have long since found their way back into the concert repertoire. Numerous performances and recordings (most recently the outstanding SACD with Yakov Kreizberg and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam, on PentaTone Classics PTC 5186015) have contributed to this success. Symphony No. 4 has a special place in Schmidt's oeuvre. It was composed in 1932/33 while he mourned the loss of his daughter during childbirth. In the piece's second section, a cello solo leads into a touching funeral march which swells to devastatingly powerful sonic dimensions - the actual requiem. Next performances: Yakov Kreizberg with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, 23-24 January 2005, Hamburg; Fabio Luisi with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 12-16 January 2005, Amsterdam.

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ZEMLINSKY

Symphony in B flat major This youthful work, with which the 26 year old Alexander Zemlinsky won the coveted Beethoven Award, was already his second attempt in the genre. Its proponents, who take pains to analyse the score thoroughly, praise its master handiwork and detect characteristics foreshadowing the mature master. Critics point out its eclecticism and the influence of Brahms (Passacaglia from Symphony No. 4), Wagner (Parsifal and Siegfried) and Mahler. Ulrich Schreiber, who even thinks he hears traces of Schubert's Octet, writes: It is music of its day, in the best sense. The piece sounds as if the crisis of the symphony had never occurred. On 9 October 04, Graham Jackson conducted this work with the Schleswig - Holstein SO in Schleswig, and in neighbouring cities during the days that followed.

Alexander Zemlinsky

EDMUND VON BORCK

Composer and victim of war Edmund von Borck, born in Breslau in 1906 and killed on the Italian front in 1944, studied composition and conducting. He first worked as a Kapellmeister, but soon turned to composing. On what would have been his 50th birthday, H. Bentz wrote: His language is always uncompromising, and his statements go for the essence. He has the strength to construct large forms and fill them accordingly.

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VITTORIO RIETI

One who was forgotten ...

Edmund von Borck

The UE catalogue contains six works of Edmund von Borck, including the Concerto for Orchestra, which Israel Yinon conducted and recorded at WDR Cologne this September. Borck's contemporaries were full of praise: What makes one listen is his determined creativity, melodic logic and positively formal talent ... it is the musical language of a loner, which culminates in raw power. â&#x20AC;Ś composition which quite decidedly goes its own way.

Not even the recently revived interest in so-called "degenerate composers" has helped to achieve a true rediscovery of the Italian composer Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994), who emigrated to the USA. In the 1920s, his ballet compositions met with great success: Balanchine choreographed Barabau with scenery by Maurice Utrillo and Le Bal with scenery by Giorgio de Chirico, and the Concerto for wind quintet and orchestra was premiĂ¨red under Alfredo Casella. This coming January, Le Bal is to receive a new chance in Rome. And on 28 October 2005, students of Wright State University will play Concerto in Dayton, Ohio. Of this work, Rieti wrote: This concerto is written somewhat in the spirit of the old Italian concerto grosso. In spirit, but not in form, because the form has more to do with modern concerti for solo instruments, that is to say, sonata form.

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HUGO ALFVÉN

Symphony No. 4 The Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén, born 2 years before Schönberg, survived his younger colleague by 9 years - yet his music remained entirely in the spirit of late Romanticism. Alongside music, literature and painting were also means which Alfvén found suitable for the expression of his thoughts and feelings. His most important source of inspiration was nature, particularly water. He spent much time boating in the archipelago near Stockholm, and the strong impressions gained on these outings flowed into his Symphony No. 4 (1918/19) for soprano, tenor and large orchestra. My symphony tells a fairy tale of the love between two human beings, Alfvén once said. The beauty of this 47 minute symphony, which is little known outside Sweden, moved Peter Kuhn to perform it with his orchestra in Bielefeld on 10 December.

KURT ATTERBERG

The curse of beauty When the 41 year old Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg won the coveted Columbia Schubert Composition Award in New York in 1928, his life changed in a major way. His Symphony N0. 6 became popular overnight and graced concert halls around the world. Atterberg received a sizeable sum of money (hence Dollar Symphony), leaving him free of immediate financial worry. Critics and the merely jealous, who viewed his work's beauty as the result of cold calculation, were quick to arrive on the scene. Money aside, Atterberg's style - particularly his symphony's romantic Adagio was a thorn in the sides of his most modern contemporaries, even though this movement was born out of a deep love for Swedish folk music. The piece will be performed on 27 February 2005 in Heilbronn, by the Heilbronner Sinfonie Orchester under Peter Braschkat.

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SCHREKER

At last, Irrelohe It is thanks to Vienna Volksoper director Rudolf Berger that first Austrian production of Franz Schreker's opera Irrelohe (premièred in Cologne in 1924) has been playing in Vienna since 16 October 2004 (dir.: Olivier Tambosi, c.: Dietfried Bernet). Schreker was among the most performed composers of his day. Banned by the Nazis, his music is now in the process of being rediscovered. And to rave reviews: One could listen to these sounds until dizzy: opalescent, running into one another, seductive (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Gerhard Persché); Illuminated sound-theatre … the music is of complex, abundantly dissonant and daring harmony, possessed of its own "grammar" between expressionism and the modern. (Salzburger

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Nachrichten, Heinz Rögl). At last, Schreker! At last, "Irrelohe" … a wildly glowing elegy to expressionism which simultaneously throws the doors wide open to new territory (Wiener Zeitung, Edwin Baumgartner). From 15 Dec 2004 to 24 Apr 2005, the Vienna Jewish Museum presents the exhibition Franz Schreker: Crossing Borders, Crossing Musical Frontiers, which offers a look at musical and operatic history at the crossroads between Art Nouveau and New Objectivity, between romanticism and modernism. On 25 Jan 2005, a concert at the RadioKulturhaus will retrace Schreker's life with a selection of his works: the Vienna RSO, c. Peter Ruzicka will play the Suite from "Der Geburtstag der Infantin", Vom ewigen Leben, Vorspiel zu einem Drama et al.

BIRTWISTLE

Antiphonies Following the performance of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's highly inventive and complex work Antiphonies (given by the Philharmonia Orchestra with Christoph von DohnĂĄnyi conducting and Pierre-Laurent Aimard as soloist) at Birtwistle Games, the festival in honour of the composer's 70th birthday, the work then received its second ever German performance just a few days later, on 12th November in Cologne. Stefan Asbury conducted the WDR Symphony Orchestra, with soloist Nic Hodges, in both the concert and a studio recording. Considered to be the composer's own response to some of the musical ideas in Gawain, Antiphonies is no conventional piano concerto, but rather a drama from which the piano ultimately emerges triumphant. The first ever performance of this work was given in 1993 by the Philharmonia and Boulez, with Joanna MacGregor as soloist.

Mines of Sulphur Glimmerglass Opera 2004

BENNETT

Mines of Sulphur In July and August 2004 Glimmerglass Opera, New York, staged a new production of Richard Rodney Bennett's atmospheric thriller The Mines of Sulphur. This opera was widely acclaimed at its premiĂ¨re in London in 1965, and productions in Berlin, Stockholm, and at La Scala in Milan soon followed. Musical America said of the Glimmerglass production, Bennett's music is very much the servant of the drama, and the result is gripping musical theater. The New York City Opera will present the work in 2006.

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VYKINTAS BALTAKAS Work for Ensemble for ‘das neue werk’ NDR SO, c. Peter Eötvös 24 February 2005 · Rolf-Liebermann-Studio Hamburg/D CRISTÓBAL HALFFTER Eritaña from “Iberia” by Isaac Albeniz for orchestra Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, c. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos 30 December 2004 · Teatro Real, Madrid/E Palimsesto 1956/2004 for timpani and orchestra Dresdner Philharmonie, c. Pedro Halffter Alexander Peter, timpani 05 February 2005 · Kulturpalast am Altmarkt Dresden/D ROXANNA PANUFNIK Ave Maria for choir (SSA) and organ c. Anthony Cain, Downe House Choir 15 December 2004 · St. Nicolas' Church Newbury/GB WOLFGANG RIHM Rilke: Vier Gedichte for tenor and orchestra Basel Sinfonietta, c. Emilio Pomárico Christoph Prégardien, Tenor 10 December 2004 · Stadtcasino Basel/CH Über-Schrift for 2 pianos Klavierduo Andreas Grau & Götz Schumacher 16 January 2005 · Konzerthaus, Neuer Saal Wien/A Trio for flute, violin and cello Emmanuel Pahud, fl, Daniel Sepec, vln, Jean-Guihen Queyras, vlc 20 January 2005 · Philharmonie Köln/D MAURICIO SOTELO Cuaderno de Danzas I for violin and ensemble UNICEF presentation, Contempoartensemble c. Mauro Ceccanti, Duccio Ceccanti, vln 06 December 2004 · Teatro Pergola Firenze/I Wall of light red for saxophone and chamber ensemble Klangforum Wien, c. Beat Furrer, Gerald Preinfalk, sax 06 December 2004 · Helmut List-Halle Graz/A

world premieres

MIKE CORNICK 20 Piano Studies in classical, jazz and popular styles for piano UE 21233 ANDREAS DORSCHEL (ED.) Dem Ohr voraus - Erwartung und Vorurteil in der Musik Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Bd. 44 UE 26844 MORTON FELDMAN For John Cage for violin and piano UE 21240 GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS String Quartet No. 4 for string quartet and live electronics Score UE 32915 ARVO PĂ&#x201E;RT Zwei Wiegenlieder for voice and piano UE 32749 JAMES RAE Style Workout - studies in classical, jazz, rock and Latin styles for saxophone (soprano / alto / tenor) UE 21323 THOMAS DANIEL SCHLEE Amen. Halleluja op. 57 for organ UE 32923 MAURICIO SOTELO Estremecido por el viento for violin UE 32614 IAN WILSON Veer for string quartet Score and parts UE 21135

new releases

MIKE CORNICK

Studies but with a difference! 20 Piano Studies in classical, jazz and popular styles UE 21233

Few of today's piano teachers would choose to restrict their pupilsÂ´ repertoire to the strictly 'classical' and this broadening of approach to include pieces in a range of styles, is clearly reflected in the syllabus selections of most examination boards.With this in mind, Mike CornickÂ´s new set of piano studies encludes pieces with a distinct Latin, jazz or pop 'feel' as well as the expected classically-styled exercises. Pupils of middle grade standard will find these pieces attractive an stimulating - each piece focusing on a particular technical or interpretative aspect of piano playing. For teachers selecting an appropriate study, a table has been provided giving details of key, style, time signature and rhythm.

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LUCIANO BERIO / FRANZ SCHUBERT Rendering Bamberger Symphoniker, c. Jonathan Nott Tudor CD 7131 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Earth Dances, Theseus Game Ensemble Modern, Martyn Brabbins and Pierre-André Valade, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, c. Pierre Boulez Deutsche Grammophon 20/21 4770702 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Gawain's Journey, The Triumph of Time, Ritual Fragment Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, c. Elgar Howarth NMC CD D088 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE The Axe Manual - Complete Piano Works Sad Song, Berceuse de Jeanne, Précis, Hector's Dawn Nicolas Hodges, pno Metronome MET CD 1074 MORTON FELDMAN Patterns in a Chromatic Field Charles Curtis, vlc, Aleck Karis, pno Tzadik Composer Series TZ 8002 CD MORTON FELDMAN Violin and Orchestra, Coptic Light Bayerischer Rundfunk SO, c. Peter Rundel, Isabelle Faust, vln musica viva, col legno WWE CD 20089 LEOS JANÁCEK Cunning Little Vixen Animated film after Janácek’s opera: Christine Buffle, Grant Doyle, Richard Coxon, BBS Singers, New London's Children's Choir, Deutsches SO Berlin, c. Kent Nagano Virgin/EMI CD 5 45586 2 KAGEL by MAURICIO KAGEL Anagrama et al. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, c. Mauricio Kagel hänssler CLASSIC CD Nr. 93-054 ERNST KRENEK Piano Works Till Alexander Körber, pno Capriccio CD 67078 ERNST KRENEK conducts ERNST KRENEK Orchestral Works NDR Sinfonieorchester, c. Ernst Krenek (NDR Klassik) EMI Classics NDR 10082 JOSEPH MARX Orchestral Songs Bochum SO, c. Steven Sloane, Angela M. Blasi, Soprano, Stella Doufexis, Mezzo, ASV Sanctuary Classics, CD DCA 1164 ARVO PÄRT Psalom, Summa, Fratres, Es sang vor langen Jahren, Stabat Mater, Quatuor Franz Joseph, c. Christopher Jackson Atma/Musikwelt CD 2310

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LUCIANO BERIO Sincronie Kairos Quartett · edition zeitklang ez 90007 LUCIANO BERIO Sincronie Kairos Quartett · edition zeitklang ez 90007 KURT ATTERBERG 6. SInfonie op 10

HUGO ALFVÉN Symphony No. 4 op. 39 Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, c. Neeme Järvi BIS-CD-505

L. BERIO Naturale, Chemins II M. FELDMAN Rothko Chapel Christophe Desjardins, Collegium Novum aeon/harmonia mundi AECD 0425

ERNST KRENEK Der Diktator, Das geheime Königreich, Schwergewicht Ensemble Modern, c. Martyn Brabbins and Pierre Boulez Capriccio 60107

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Król Roger Orchestra and Chorus of the Polish National Opera, c. Jacep Kaspszyk Accord ACD 131-2

FRANZ SCHMIDT Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Michael Schönheit, org, c. Fabio Luisi Querstand/Musikwelt 2 CD 0411 WOLFGANG RIHM Deus Passus, KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Stabat Mater Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, c. Marcello Viotti, c. Helmuth Rillling Profil/Naxos CD 04035 KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Complete Songs with Piano accompaniment Juliana Gondek & Iwona Sobotka, Soprano, Urszula Kryger, Mezzo, Piotr Beczala, Tenor, Reinhild Mees, pno Channel Classics CCS 19398 (M04) KURT WEILL Royal Palace, Der Neue Orpheus BBC SO, BBC Singers, c. Andrew Davis, Janis Watson, Stephen Richardson, Ashley Holland, Richard Coxon, Capriccio CD 60 106

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OPERAS and VOCAL WORKS Adolf Wölfli short opera . 1980/1981 Libretto by the composer after texts by Adolf Wölfli 25’ Nacht chamber opera 1995-1996/1998 Libretto by the composer after texts by Friedrich Hölderlin 75’ after Hyperion, Empedokles, Oedipus, letters Die schöne Wunde opera in 2 parts 2002-2003 Libretto by the composer after texts by Franz Kafka’s 150’ Der Landarzt, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum et al. lied for tenor and 2 percussion players 2000 Text by Süsskind von Trimberg 5’ Blumenstück 2000 for 32-voice choir, bass tuba and string quintet 18’ Text after Siebenkäs’ by Jean Paul Haiku for baritone and ensemble 2004 World Première: 24 April 2005, Witten New Music Days 12’ ORCHESTRA "... sodaß ich's hernach, gleichsam wie ein schönes Bild ... 1990/1991 im Geist übersehe" for string orchestra 16’ Descendiendo 1993 for large orchestra 30’ Violin Concerto 1998 for violin and orchestra 15’ Torso for large orchestra 1999-2000/2001 after the unfinished Piano Sonata C major D840 (1825) 40’ by Franz Schubert Natures mortes 2003 for large orchestra 26’ Opus 68 2003 Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9 (1913) 10’ for large orchestra, orchestrated by Georg Friedrich Haas Rondeau 2003 for ensemble, also for amateur or school orchestra 14’ Concerto for Cello and Orchestra 2003-2004 for cello and orchestra 30’ Ritual open air work 2004 for 12 large drums, 3 wind orchestras and church bells ad lib. 75’ World Première: July 2005, Klangspuren Schwaz

haas worklist

5 Distances für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Horn. Partitur UE 21085, Stimmensatz UE 21086 4. Streichquartett Partitur UE 31967, Stimmensatz UE 31968 Sonate op. 20 a für Gitarre solo

1991/92 12’ 1988 10’ 2002

ENSEMBLE Sextett 1982 for 3 violas and 3 cellos 13’ Quasi una Tânpûrâ 1990/1991 for chamber orchestra 28’ "... Schatten ... durch unausdenkliche Wälder" 1992 for 2 pianos and 2 percussion players 24’ Sextett 1992/1996 for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello 15’ "...." 1994 double concerto for accordion, viola and chamber ensemble 14’ "... über den Atem, die Stille und die Zerbrechlichkeit ..." 1994 for 7 brass instruments 23’ "... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." 1994/1995/1996 for varied ensemble orchestrations 11’ "... Einklang freier Wesen ..." 1994/1995/1996 for 10 instruments 11’ Fremde Welten 1997 for piano and 20 strings 27’ String Quartet No. 1 1997 for string quartet 30’ String Quartet No. 2 1998 for string quartet 18’ "In iij Noct." - String Quartet No. 3 2001 for string quartet 40 - 60’ String Quartet No. 4 2003 for string quartet and live electronics 25’ Monodie 1998/1999 for 18 instruments 15’ Nach-Ruf ... ent-gleitend ... 1999 for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello 16’ Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich ... 1999 for percussion and ensemble 25’

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ENSEMBLE (cont.) in vain for 24 instruments tria ex uno for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello "für Hans Landesmann" for 12 instruments

2000 70’ 2001 12’ 2001-2002 7’

SOLO INSTRUMENTS "... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." for different solo instruments Solo for Viola d'amore for viola d'amore de terrae fine for violin solo flow and friction for microtone piano for 4 hands ein Saitenspiel for microtonally-tuned zither Ein Schattenspiel for piano and live electronics Finale for flute

1994/1995/1996 11’ 2000 15’ 2001 21’ 2001 9’ 2002 4’ 2004 10’ 2004 10’

PROJECTS Work for choir and orchestra (instrumentation of Mozart’s Requiem) 2005 World Première: Mozarteum, 4 December 2005 Salzburg/A Work for orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra, c. Franz Welser-Möst) 2005 World Première: March 2006 Cleveland/USA Work for orchestra 2006 World Première: Donaueschinger Musiktage, October 2006 Work for 15 instrumentalists (Remix Ensemble) 2006 World Première: November 2006 Porto/P

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