I got the idea of writing this piece during a rehearsal with Klaus Michael Grüber I saw in Berlin. Three actors were rehearsing a scene of Kleist. At the end, Grüber said: '… now once again in a diffe...
In his novel Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel Garcia Márquez mentions Domenico Scarlatti as a music teacher. I was so delighted with this idea that I played through all his 555 sonatas. I could not g...
Eötvös wrote this piece in memory of the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003. The number 7 determines the musical, rhythmic and formal structure of the...
In this short composition, the G and A strings are tuned a half note higher. Due to the extensive use of open strings and natural harmonics, the piece is perfectly suitable as an introduction to scord...
The Long Journey, the final monologue of the opera The Golden Dragon based on the eponymous play by Roland Schimmelpfennig, has been given the air of a ballad. A young Chinese works illegally in an As...
Chapter 11 of James Joyce's Ulysses is a real treasure trove of existing and invented words and names; each word and name triggers off a whole series of associations, images, stories and sounds - part...
Peter Eötvös completed his early neo-classical Hungarian piano pieces at the age of 17. Now published in one volume, they were created when he studied composition at the Budapest Music Academy between...
I often played Berio's Erdenklavier in my childhood, which is why I wrote this short epigram to take leave of the Maestro and Friend who is playing on a Himmelklavier now. From 1979 I worked many time...
