Bernd Alois Zimmermann

With this work, Zimmermann created a score just as transparent as effective and witty which is based on the vigorous melody of the Rhenish dances.

HEROES OF THE FAITH is a unique field trip. Biblical characters come to life to teach modern day children how to become heroes. The children learn lessons of faith when they discover David, Deborah, E...

In January 1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann interrupted the completion of hisopera Die Soldaten [The Soldiers] in order to rearrange his orchestral work Dialoge for two pianos. Monologe resulting therefrom...

These three pieces found in the estate of the composer are a testimony to the compositional techniques employed by Zimmermann at the age of 22. They provide an interesting addition to his complete pia...

Flöte (3), Oboe (3), Fagott (3), Trompete (3), Posaune (3), Tuba, Pauke, Schlg, Gitarre (2), Harfe, Kontrabass

The arrangements in Drei Tänze are part of a corpus of over 100 arrangements that Bernd Alois Zimmermann made for radio use, primarily for the NWDR. Now these delightful arrangements are also being ma...

Zimmermann’s original Konfigurationen are of course influenced by Anton Webern’s structural thinking, but draw their tonal charm to a large extent from the highly nuanced handling of resonances throug...

Until his appointment as composition teacher at the Musikhochschule of Cologne in 1957, Bernd Alois Zimmermann earned his living chiefly by arranging works of other composers for the radio. Vier...

Jazz was for Bernd Alois Zimmermann a 'musical constitution of being', a 'branch of art sui generis'. The Trumpet Concerto, with its big band allusions of the 1950s, unites the categories of jazz musi...

Set of parts - playing instructions (3 versions).

In addition to his extensive musical expertise, Bernd Alois Zimmermann was also extremely knowledgeable in other fields, above all in philosophy and literature. The composer had devoted himself intens...

With this edition, Schott publishes the early two-movement string quartet by Bernd Alois Zimmermann for the first time. In a letter the composer wrote: 'I am still messing around with my quartet. This...

Zimmermann wrote a series of works for unaccompanied solo instruments in which he experimented with material and tested out virtuoso playing techniques, simultaneously producing self-contained, indepe...