Enjott Schneider

With his 'Omaggio a Vivaldi' Enjott Schneider drew a musical portrait of the Italian Baroque master. Whereas the first movement illuminates the topic of Vivaldi's scandalous relationship with the prim...

Literature for alto saxophone and organ is rare. In his piece, the composer Enjott Schneider from Munich examines a theme from the 16th century: The Catalan composer and vihuela player Luis de Milán (...

The Catalan composer and vihuela player Luis de Milán (1500-1561) ranks among the most important composers of the Spanish Renaissance. His collection El Maestro from 1536 was the first publication of...

The 'Song of Songs' or 'Song of Solomon' addressed to Sulamith and ascribed to Solomon is one of the most mysterious texts of the Bible. If the character of Solomon itself is enigmatic, the character...

Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...

'Nekyia' is one of the world's basic principles in the mythology of antiquity: each striving after higher values, each spiritualization and each attempt at perfection presupposes the passage through H...

In his new composition for oboe and harpsichord, Enjott Schneider deals with the 'circulus vitiosus', the vicious circle. The 'circulus' describes a fast whirling circular motion in rondo form which i...

In his new composition for oboe and harpsichord, Enjott Schneider deals with the 'circulus vitiosus', the vicious circle. The 'circulus' describes a fast whirling circular motion in rondo form which i...

To the composer Enjott Schneider, Golgatha, the biblical place of crucification, is a symbol of both the transient and transcendental in human life. For his composition of the same name, he chose the...

YinYang' is the union of polar opposites in Taoism. It is the same in the present work for trumpet and organ in which the two movements form a pair of opposites: 'Toccata' is a powerful, solid music p...

YinYang' is the union of polar opposites in Taoism. It is the same in the present work for trumpet and organ in which the two movements form a pair of opposites: 'Toccata' is a powerful, solid music p...

This work explores the mood and events at Jesus' last appearance before his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane. The Gospels say that this incident was fraught, with three occasions of urgent prayer as...

The output of this versatile musician encompasses a multitude of styles from 'classical' avant-garde to pop, thanks to his wide-ranging activities as composer, performer, writer and teacher. Schneider...

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

The Organ Concerto No. 3 CHOPINIADE was commissioned by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra "Frédéric Chopin" in Gdansk for the premiere at the International Oliwa Organ Festival by Prof. Roman P...

In time for the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, Enjott Schneider has presented his 'Minuten-Tristan' in a version for two pianos.Originally composed for a dozen pianos, 'Minuten-Tristan' presents th...

Die dreißigminütige Komposition exponiert ein musikalisches Thema, dessen wildwuchernde Veränderungen in drei Sätze gefasst sind, die einigen der berühmten acht Triagramme des 'I GING' (des Buches der...

Enjott Schneider's 'Missa brevis' is based on the medieval Easter chorale 'Surrexit Christus Hodie' the headline of which shapes the melody line like a signature. The basic air is characterized by a t...

The concerto takes the historical figure of the brutal impaler Vlad Tzepesch (1431-1476) as its starting point and subsequently develops the myth into an overwrought and gruesome piece of work: 1: 'Od...

Enjott Schneider's composition for cor anglais, bassoon and strings was created in the form of a musical epitaph on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the death of the Bavarian King Ludwig II sh...

In Enjott Schneider's 'Rondo oscuro', an eye-twinkling naive rondo theme leads to more complex intermediate parts in which the soloist is faced with a flute ensemble demanding various degrees of rhyth...

'Circle of Life' was commissioned for the International Piano Competition of the Wiesbaden Music Academy. At its centre is a Toccata which can also be played separately. In contrast, with regard to it...

Die Komposition entstand im Sommer 1994 als Musik zur Verfilmung des Romans 'Schlafes Bruder' von Robert Schneider (Regie: Joseph Vilsmaier). Die Toccata ist Teil eines Orgelwettbewerbs am Filmende, i...