Dorothea Hofmann

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...

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...

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...

Nach dem Wechsel der Farbe scheint alles möglich: von dunkel zu hell, von blau zu rot, von grün zu gelb: lila Gras, blaue Pferde, rote Bäume: Das Gewohnte hat sich verändert, längst Bekanntes scheint...

A summery reverie - with the sun on your face, birdsong in your ears, the scent of summer lilacs and lavender in your nose and the taste of strawberries, cherries, blackberries and blueberries in your...

The "Little Piano Book for Anna Magdalena Bach" is now 300 years old, and it is one of the few things we "know" about Anna Magdalena Bach. The works it contains were certainly particularly close to he...

My choral fantasy on "Puer natus" develops from the swaying three-note rhythm of the well-known Christmas carol, which repeatedly gives new impetus to the melodic progression through to jubilant trill...

The "Waldbilder" are five scenes of different character, held together by a common basic mood: the titles of the movements can be interpreted both associatively and directly programmatically, dependin...

A Möbius strip is a figure that leads back into itself, so that the whole strip has only one side and one edge: there is no top and no bottom, no inside and outside. Since its discovery, the Möbius st...

The 'blue land' around the Staffelsee in the Upper Bavarian Alpine foothills, between Murnau and the Loisachtal, shines in enchanted shades of a wonderful blue, especially in autumn: the mountains are...

I. Pentagramm [ d e f a b ] II. Heptagramm [ d e fis g gis ais c ] III. Oktagramm [ f g a h c cis d es ] Fadenspiele verwenden einen geschlossenen Faden oder eine Kordel, um mittels einfacher Bewegung...

Interesting Times - what can "interesting" not mean everything: exciting times, challenging times, exciting times in a positive sense ... Or is it really the phrase "May You Live in Interesting Times"...

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg had to play Bach's "Goldberg Variations" night after night to his employer Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, so that he could "be cheered up a little in his sleepless nights". It'...