Dorothea Hofmann

Christian Reinhold Köstlin (1813–1856), a lawyer by profession who came from a family of theologians and scholars, was married to the song composer and Munich court singer Josephine Lang (1815–1880)....

Klabund’s poems strike a very distinctive tone: concrete, vivid scenes, almost naive words—and yet, precisely because of this, they address with great seriousness the central questions of love, longin...

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...

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,...

Although the five songs that form the basis of the "Bairische Intermezzi" originate from different regions of southern Germany, they all belong to the same musical culture of the Alpine region. This e...

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...

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,...

Fountains of water and light are fountains. Pure energy, exuberantly hurled into the air—sparkling at any time of day—and even at night, they exude joy. (Dorothea Hofmann) Instrumentation - Piccolo -...

Anna Bon di Venezia was a harpsichordist, singer, and composer, a contemporary of Joseph Haydn, whom she knew. Trained in Venice, she is known to have lived in Bayreuth, Dresden, and Esterháza, after...

... What ho! Thou genius of this isle, what ho! Thou asleep beneath those hills of snow? (John Dryden, King Arthur, Act 3, Cupid) A motto from a "semi-opera" by Henry Purcell, referring to perhaps its...

Icy sounds for four flutes: Dorothea Hofmann's source of inspiration for this work was the beauty of ice, its color wonderland of blue hues, the austere variety of forms of its crystalline peaks, and...

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) wrote vivid, passionate poems—love poems and prayers—that are, at the same time, always inner monologues on the meaning of life. She stood between 19th-century bourgeoi...

A dark path in the forest, not easy to walk—where does it lead? It grows lighter; the trees recede; flowering plants, butterflies, birdsong—is the path still as gloomy afterward as it was before? (Dor...

Red-orange, green-gold, blue-black. Broad bands of color, in constant motion, then delicate drawings again, vibrantly etched into the air. In between, two shadowy sketches, hatched in black and white;...

Time flies—yes, it races by—and then again it stands still, and the seconds trickle away, barely perceptible, like individual drops of thick pitch. You can gain time and you can lose time—you can stea...

Und der dritte Engel stieß in die Posaune. Und es fiel vom Himmel ein großer Stern, brennend wieeine Fackel. Er fiel auf den dritten Teil der Flüsse und auf die Wasserquellen. Und der Name des Sternes...

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...

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...