Alexander Goehr

My Symphony in One Movement was begun in Boston, in April 1969, and completed in New Haven, Connecticut, in February 1970. It was commissioned by the New Philharmonia Orchestra for its visit to the Wo...

The duos for two violins which I have written to celebrate the birthday of David Takeno are the first part of what I hope will ultimately become a book of duos. These little pieces (there are eight in...

Conductor's Score.

Alexander Goehr's Warngedichte (Warning Poems) are settings of poems of the same name by a poet and friend of the composer Erich Fried. Composed in 1967, this new edition brings the work to new perfor...

Alexander Goehr's Warngedichte (Warning Poems) are settings of poems of the same name by a poet and friend of the composer Erich Fried. Composed in 1967, this new edition brings the work to new perfor...

Completed in 1964, this deeply moving work sets poems by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The work brings Anne Frank's diaries to mind, highlighting the tragedy that children's persp...

Textbuch deutsch.

Textbuch englisch

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll für Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow l...

Goehr's new work for orchestra, based on Bach's chorale Durch Adams Fall ist alles Verderbt, is the latest in the composer's oeuvre to reflect on great music of the past. My own composition might be d...

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll für Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow l...

Goehr's new work for orchestra, based on Bach's chorale Durch Adams Fall ist alles Verderbt, is the latest in the composer's oeuvre to reflect on great music of the past. My own composition might be d...