Detlev Müller-Siemens

In the context of the Petrushka project initiated by Schott Music, several dance pieces by various composers were written. On this occasion, en passant was created, only afterwards were two further pi...

Year of composition: 2014

'distant traces' comes close to the genre of the piano trio in an unusual way, because the violoncello has been replaced by a viola. Created for a concert in Hamburg in remembrance of his former compo...

The piano quartet 'Lost traces' is based on the piano trio Distant traces in which the violoncello had been replaced by a viola, a fact that is highly unusual for the genre. Whereas the first version...

The first movement is characterized by the interplay between a delicate, almost fragile theme and its extremely harsh development. The second is melodic and the third tonally repetitive. The finale al...

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of do...

The title '...called dusk' quotes the last line of the prose fragment 'Lessness' by Samuel Beckett: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'. As regards the compositional structu...

'Privacy' means separation. The title of the trio for clarinet, violin and piano thus describes the character of the piece. The piano weaves sound tapestries of deep and long, yet fully fingered chord...

In the context of the Petrushka project initiated by Schott Music, several dance pieces by various composers were written. On this occasion, en passant was created, only afterwards were two further pi...

Year of composition: 2014

'distant traces' comes close to the genre of the piano trio in an unusual way, because the violoncello has been replaced by a viola. Created for a concert in Hamburg in remembrance of his former compo...

The piano quartet 'Lost traces' is based on the piano trio Distant traces in which the violoncello had been replaced by a viola, a fact that is highly unusual for the genre. Whereas the first version...

The first movement is characterized by the interplay between a delicate, almost fragile theme and its extremely harsh development. The second is melodic and the third tonally repetitive. The finale al...

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of do...

The title '...called dusk' quotes the last line of the prose fragment 'Lessness' by Samuel Beckett: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'. As regards the compositional structu...

Two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin bearing almost the same title form the basis of the text for 'Zwei Lieder' (Two Songs): 'Die Aussicht' and 'Aussicht'. Unlike as with common musical settings of poems,...