Benjamin Schweitzer

The text of this 'small sound piece' combines material from Petrarch's well-known Sonnet No. 132 and its Baroque adaptation by Martin Opitz, alternating between - and sometimes mixing - Italian and Ge...

The work is a spider-fingered scherzo which translates the concept of ‘Romantic irony’ into a modern tonal language. Mysterious creatures fl it back and forth and run on the spot before breaking off o...

The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...

The image of a landscape in April, freed from winter's hold, with its mixture of barrenness and still dull colours, characterises the basic tone of this piece. Melodic elements and fast virtuoso figur...

Benjamin Schweitzer presents his first work for this combination. Willing to try out something new, he adds to the typical character of the wind instruments the sound of the piano. The work is made up...

The title hidden tracks is ambiguous. First of all, the piece is almost throughout imagined as 'multi-track', with layers (in the sense of sound tracks) that partly overlay each other, partly suddenly...

maverick I [noise] is the first piece in a five-part series of solo compositions for double-bass instruments. The subtitle 'noise' points to the fact that the composition is pervaded by numerous noise...

These attributes mentioned here: Ease -Swiftness - Precision - Vividness - Complexity - are used by Benjamin Schweitzer as signposts for putting the pop into the weasel in his solo violin part. Out of...

The title may be read as an indication of the key and genre, on the one hand, but also as an allusion to a slightly depressive mood, on the other hand. Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor which may have...

The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this tech...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

The cycle of 27 lithographs on the Apocalypse of St. John created by Max Beckmann in his Dutch exile in 1941 inspired Benjamin Schweitzer to compose 27 musical 'sheets' as well. 'The pictures are fill...

Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) - Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These...

The text of this 'small sound piece' combines material from Petrarch's well-known Sonnet No. 132 and its Baroque adaptation by Martin Opitz, alternating between - and sometimes mixing - Italian and Ge...

The work is a spider-fingered scherzo which translates the concept of ‘Romantic irony’ into a modern tonal language. Mysterious creatures fl it back and forth and run on the spot before breaking off o...

The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...