Péter Eötvös

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...

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 meaning of 'da capo' is to return to the beginning and start again. A musical process, which reaches somewhere but does not end, beginning again and again in a different way, from different basic...

Der 1944 in Ungarn geborene und aufgewachsene Komponist und Dirigent Peter Eötvös gehörte jahrelang zu den engsten Mitarbeitern Karlheinz Stockhausens in Köln. Stärker als anderen gelang es ihm, sich...

The Hungarian composer and conductor Péter Eötvös (born 1944) is known worldwide. He is one of the most successful opera composers of our time. In May 2010, the Portuguese composer and conductor Pedro...

Partitur A3

This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer: for...

This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer: for...

Drei ironische Aphorismen von Heinrich Heine verbinden sich in diesem kleinen Zyklus zu einem heiter-virtuosen Chorwerk: dem Duft des Sauerkrauts steht der Duft der Blumen gegenüber - und sind die Deu...

Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the oppos...

Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the oppos...

From the biographical point of view, Peter Eötvös’ composition for trumpet and large orchestra is related to his teacher and fellow composer Karlheinz Stockhausen whose work DONNERSTAG from LIGHT was...