Dorothea Hofmann

I moved in as a stranger, I move out again as a stranger. The lyrical self in Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise" wanders, is searching. Is it his personal life's wandering after a failed love,...

Four songs on texts from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest": - Prospero I ("I find my zenith") - Ariel ("Come into these yellow sands") - Caliban ("Be not afeard") - Prospero II ("We are such stuff")...

Hildegard von Bingen set a single text of the Ordinarium Missae to music: a Kyrie from which I was freely inspired melodically. The "Kyrie eleison" is the existential and archaic call to God – it is h...

The song melody of 1622 is in many ways the inspiration of the chorale fantasy up to the literal, complete quotation. The image of the opening of the sky is the central idea of the overall gesture of...

The two 'little chorale preludes' are in their own way a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach and his 'Organ Booklet'. In contrast to Bach, however, there are a few volume specifications here. However, the...

The 14 short pieces very characteristically set the emotional and dramatic situation of the traditional Stations of the Cross in sound. The traditional liturgical titles of the stations are deliberate...

I stood still and was a tree amid the Wood. / Knowing the truth of things unseen before. (from: Ezra Pound, "The Tree") Trees seem solid, firmly rooted in their place - there they stand and rustle wit...

Seemingly contradictory movements and characteristics are combined: melody versus chord, movement versus standstill, the seven-quarter time is interrupted by interjections in six quarters, a quiet "ch...

Noch … 2021 für Gitarre solo (6') und Sopran und Gitarre (2'20) Ein Gedicht von Rose Ausländer war Inspiration für die beiden Werke "Noch …", die für ein Konzertprojekt des Gitarristen Stefan Barcsay...

Dorothea Hofmann: "Noch …" (2021) für Gitarre solo und "Noch" (2021) für Singstimme und Gitarre (Text: Rose Ausländer) Barbara Mayer: Discurso Poético (2022) (inspiriert von einem nordbrasilianischen...

Sul fondo del lago was the initial idea - and images of clear cold mountain lakes, unfathomable warm moorland lakes, huge deep, green and blue lakes full of creatures, mythical creatures, mermaids and...

As três Marias (2016): "Três Marias" is the name in Brazil for those three stars that we know as the three belt stars of the hunter Orion. What a contrast of names! On the one hand, the wild, pagan hu...

Long before their marriage, Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann had already begun a musical partner discourse, in mutual allusions they networked their compositions, planned an artistic community based on...

Volkslieder in Klaviermusik zu verwandeln hat eine lange Tradition in der europäischen Kunstmusik: Sei es "John Come kiss me now" vom Virginalisten William Byrd um 1600, Joseph Haydns Capriccio über d...

Individual lines from poems by Rose Ausländer have become the movement titles of my sonata - they are not "set to music", but are the source of inspiration. In this fragmentary form, the words enter i...

The inspiration for the work was "Voskos", a folk song from Cyprus whose lyrics reflect on life and death. The plane trees and myrtles are symbols of infinity: our relationship to space and eternity l...

Seven piano miniatures, characterized by emotions that are easy to recognize and connect with one's own feelings. The pieces are deliberately limited in their difficulty (comparable to Béla Bartók, Mi...

Die Stücke sind für Anfänger des Vierhändig-Spiels gedacht. Daher ist die Schwierigkeit für die Einzelstimme stets nur leicht bis mittel, sodass die Herausforderungen der gemeinsam genutzten Tastatur...

Three angels sang a sweet song, which sounded far into the high heaven ... This song, which is at least 400 years old, is the basis of the Fantasia: the memorable beginning of the song is easily perce...

Gravity is a basic physical force: on Earth, everything falls towards the center of the Earth, i.e. downwards, unless it is prevented from doing so by other forces. The orbits of planets, moons and co...

Dorothea Hofmann composed five works for organ and other instruments. They are inspired by paintings by Lucas Cranach. All works were premiered by Marius Popp under the common title „Wunderkamme “ in...

Medieval books are full of surprising illuminations. The sacred, serious text of the Gospels and Psalms is not only lined with abstract patterns or flower tendrils, but angels, people, animals - and a...

Dorothea Hofmann composed five works for organ and other instruments. They are inspired by paintings by Lucas Cranach. All works were premiered by Marius Popp under the common title „Wunderkamme “ in...

Curupira ist der Beschützer des brasilianischen Waldes und seiner wilden Tiere und Pflanzen, gemeinsam mit Anhangá, dem weißen Hirschmit seinen Feueraugen: die Namen stammen aus der Sprache der Tupí,...