David Philip Hefti

The text of Mutata vox is based on fragments from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book IX, Iphis), selected and arranged into a new textual version. The original narrative is broken into individual, self-contai...

This work was composed shortly after the composer conducted Jürg Dähler and the Musikkollegium Winterthur in the world première of his Viola Concerto Cantabile in January 2021. Whole passages from Can...

Die '12 Fantasien' für Flöte solo entstanden 2015 im Auftrag der Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte und sind dem Flötisten Philipp Jundt gewidmet. Die Uraufführung durch den Widmungsträger fand im Rahmen der It...

Gallicinium, Music for the fourth nocturnal vigil for wind quintet, is the last of four compositions whose starting point is the Roman vigils of the church. The harmonies of this work alternate betwee...

In fliessenden Räumen (In Flowing Spaces) was composed in 2026 on commission from Camerata Variabile and is dedicated to its artistic director, Helena Winkelman. The quartet conceives sound as somethi...

Cantabile, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, is an extensive work that makes use of many of the virtues and clichés of the viola (leisureliness, melancholy, gloominess etc.), but that also refutes t...

Final(ment)e, Interplay of relationships for two trumpets and orchestra, was composed as an atmospheric counterpart to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Several quotations from that monumental work flowed...

The sixth string quartet 'Five scenes for Gustav' was composed in 2020 to a commission from the Amaryllis Quartet, to whom it is also dedicated. The five movements can be performed as preludes to Davi...

In Woven from Light, two voices meet within a shimmering field of sound and motion. Fluctuating, floating textures unfold into lyrical lines that search, respond, mirror and intertwine. These fragile...

'Songs of sorrow, songs of joy' is a homage to John Dowland. What is perhaps his most intimate lute song, 'In darkness let me dwell', is heard in full in this Viola Concerto in orchestral apparel, tho...

Im Streiflicht (in raking light) is a single-movement work that unfolds within a field of tension between continuity and interruption. Shifting sound planes form a constantly changing texture in which...

David Philip Hefti hat das diesjährige Pflichtstück des Guadagnini-Violinwettbewerbs in Stuttgart komponiert. Im Anhang dieser Nachricht finden Sie Informationen zu diesem Werk. Bei Fragen zu dieser A...

The song cycle 'E las culurs dals tuns' ('And the colours of sounds') was composed in 2017 to a commission by the Summer Music Days festival in Hitzacker. The cycle in twelve parts is a setting of Rom...

Resonances 2 (Piano Piece No. 3) were composed in 2016 for the pianist Susanne Kessel and her project '250 piano pieces for Beethoven', which will commemorate Beethoven's 250th birthday in the year 20...

David Philip Hefti‘s fourth piano piece, 'Ritmico', is comprised of three fragmentary, individual movements. The focus of this brief work is on the rhythmic components of the music, leaving almost all...

The piano piece describes twilight, the night, dreams and sleeplessness with a gentle basic character. This calm is abruptly broken in the second part of the piece, tumbling out of a dream into a feve...

The short movements élan, resonance, vehemence and harmony can be performed as a suite or as individual movements. They were premiered as part of a matinée for Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin.

The 'Cadenza and interludes' for the Sonata in a minor for solo flute (Wq 132) by C. P. E. Bach were written to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt, who gave the first performance of the work...

The Cadenzas and interludes were written in 2021 to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt. The brief cadenzas were mostly composed for a single breath, in the spirit of Quantz. The interludes r...

The Cadenzas for the Concertos for flute and orchestra by W. A. Mozart were written in 2022 and are dedicated to the flautist Philipp Jundt and the harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet.

Starry rain – Mosaik for flute solo was written in spring 2024 for the flutist Philipp Jundt and was written as an echo of the flute concerto Vier Momente.