Péter Eötvös

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...

The work is a dialogue in multiple levels: The solo cellist performs with the orchestral cello section, and soloist and cello section both enter into dialogue with the whole orchestra. The concerto re...

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...

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...

Die junge Schlgazeugerin Leonie Klein hat eine Solo-Fassung des genialen Schlagzeugkonzerts von Peter Eötvös geschrieben. Virtuos lehrt der Schlagzeuger seinen Instrumenten das Sprechen, bis die Tromm...

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...

Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actu...

Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actu...

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...

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...