Dance of the Butterflies: Brush-footed butterflies dance in a very special way with their four special legs. Eötvös transfers their miniature dances to the keyboard and sends a greeting from his garde...
As most of my instrumental pieces, Joyce is also based on a literary source. My first string quartet (Korrespondenz) transferred the correspondence between Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at time...
The idea of playing two instruments alternately in a single work came from Clark Terry whom I saw in a video. Alongside his virtuosity in alternating between the two instruments, I found the contrast...
Klavierauszug des Komponisten und Paul L. Schäffer Die Struktur musikalischer Hierarchien in drei Sätzen: Do für die westliche,
In December 2015, Peter Eötvös composed his short work for violin solo which plays with hearing, perceiving and responding to musical structures. Inspired by a line from James Joyce's Ulysses, there i...