Magnus Lindberg

The concept of this piece is based on a harmonic lay-out, it has been composed using huge chordal succsessions out of which the music follows meanderlike paths alternating between layers. Duo Concerta...

New edition of this 1999-2000 dialogue between the two orchestral families of woodwind and brass, each with their respective material. Their initial characters, equating to the poetic stereotypes of '...

Scored for 12-piece symphonic brass ensemble this 13-minute work was commissioned for MusicNOW, the new music series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed by the brass of the Chica...

Aldeburgh Trilogy consists of the separate works Bubo bubo (2002), Counter Phrases (2002-03) and Red House (2013). Bubo bubo was composed as a tribute to Oliver Knussen on his 50th birthday and is bas...

Scored for horn and chamber orchestra Campana in Aria was composed in 1998 to mark the 40th birthday of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Salonen conducted the first performance; his musical career began as a horn p...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...

17-minute work for full orchestra commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. First performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 1997. The composer comments:'The...

TEMPUS FUGIT was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Finnish independence on 6 December 2017 and it received its first performance in Helsinki on that day, given by the Finnish Radio Symphony O...

Dating from 2015, this work was a commission from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio France and New York Philharmonic. Its ded...

This work was composed in 2013 to a commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. It was first performed that year at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, by Anssi Karttunen (cello) and th...

Composed in 2008-09, GRAFFITI is Lindberg's first work for chorus and orchestra, and it earned him the 2009 Finnish Composer Society's Award. The libretto for the half-hour work is compiled from ancie...

Commissioned by China National Centre for The Performing Arts, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie de Paris – Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Ne...

Commissioned by China National Centre for The Performing Arts, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie de Paris – Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Ne...

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and co-commissioned by Radio France and Norddeutscher Rundfunk, this work was composed in 2020. It was first performed the following year at...

Commissioned as a test piece by the Sibelius Society of Finland for the XII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition (2022). This demanding solo deserves to enter the repertory of dazzling violi...

Work for Wind Quintet. Parts available: SOS15428

Work for Wind Quintet. Score available: SOS05428

Now well known for his virtuosic but highly engaging writing for solo instruments with orchestra, Magnus Lindberg here turns his attention to the cello. The concerto, dating from 1997-99, is in a high...

First publication of this much-performed score. It was composed in 2001-2 for Kari Kriikku, and his recording of the work has received critical acclaim.

Lindberg's writing in this concerto has been compared to that of the Sibelius violin concerto. According to the Boston Globe, the composer 'shows that it is possible to wed lyricism and virtuosic disp...

The harmonic model for this piece is based on a subdivision of pitches in primary and secondary notes, in principle any chord can be viewed from it's structural qualities including interval content an...

Orchestral work commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain and Fondation Totale pour la musique.