Dorothea Hofmann

It's time to move on, it's time to leave, it's time to find something new... A short piece about the new beginning.

William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the source for this song cycle. The moon, fate, love and the fairy are personifications of an archaic world for which Shakespeare found eternal wor...

An episode from the life of Pierrot? From an almost unreal beginning, a steadily building continuum of movement develops, oscillating between "painful" and "dance-like", insisting on its relentless pr...

Three dances which - all three played in succession - could represent a party in a castle or palace: The ladies in light-colored, wide dresses would like to take quick, small steps, but also just sway...

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...

Vortex wheels can be found 1500 years ago in Scandinavia, but already 2500 years ago also in Portugal: symbols of the sun, of movement, of time, of life? Maybe all at the same time, we don't know. (Do...

My "Danse Macabre" uses the beginning of a song from the Baroque period: "Es ist ein Schnitter, der heißt Tod..." and the persuasive power of the rondo form. The motif introduced at the beginning subl...

The chorale "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" is one of the oldest songs of the Reformation in its unconditional trust in God. The melody by Claudin de Sermisy, originally associated with a se...

The menorah is the seven-branched candelabrum of the Old Testament – the number seven of lights corresponds to the many meanings of the number seven, such as the seven planets or the seven days of cre...

The formation known as the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula, 7000 light years away, stretches four light years into space. Protostars made of molecular hydrogen and dust form at its tips. Hyd...

The lark is perhaps the best-known songbird. It can be heard from afar as it soars over 100 meters into the air until it - a small bird - is long gone from sight - as a mediator between heaven and ear...

The emerald is the symbol of utmost purity and holiness - it is cosmic and beautiful, and it already shows the glow of paradise. '... like an emerald' should shine. The tranquility of the chordal sect...

Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and endings, the god of all origins. His were all entrances and exits, door and gate - and in his duality he was neither good nor bad, but embodied the realizatio...

Fanfares have a long tradition as carriers of musical messages: it was a knightly art to play brass instruments - and so fanfares announced high, royal or imperial visits, introduced tournaments or we...

The word "kaleidoscope" comes from the Greek and means "to see beautiful shapes". A construction of mirrors and colored glass plates inside a tube opens up fantasy worlds of symmetrical colored patter...

Die Drei Abzählreime basieren auf Kinderversen (Rain) und Abzählversen, wie sie aus Spielen vieler Kulturen bekannt sind. Sowohl Ingle Angle als auch Eenie Meenie sind seit mehr als 250 Jahren bekannt...

The singing of the Psalms is perhaps the most important root of Christian church music; they are very old texts with great pictorial power. In this respect, I have always tried to compose with the tex...

Peter Hille, a poet between late Romanticism and early Expressionism: he wrote wonderfully luminous images, clairvoyantly imagined in a life on the margins of society, and yet, in all poverty, as a fa...

The three poems are taken from the poetry collection "Sanskrit" by Georg Maria Roers SJ. In my search for poems for a song cycle on the theme of the "forest", they came together as if by themselves, a...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) lived almost 40 years apart, but in terms of music philosophy they were at home in the same world. For Bach, as for Leibniz,...

Eine vergnügliche Suite mit plastischen Titeln, u.a. Lied des Hofnarren, Krähentanz im turm, Trillerduell, Das Turnier der Ritter ohne Pferd, Kampf der Küchen-Kobolde. Gehobene Literatur für den Unter...

Die Erforschung der Musikgeschichte in Bayern ist das Hauptanliegen der Reihe Musik in Bayern, die von der Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte e. V. herausgegeben wird. Inhaltlich zeigt sich i...

Die Münchner Tagung über Aufführungs- und Interpretationsfragen zur Musik für Tasteninstrumente vom April 2018 hat innovativ musikwissenschaftliche Darstellungen mit musikalischen Demonstrationen an h...