Stefan Heucke

Im Frühjahr 2012 schrieb ich für das Duo Imaginaire ein knapp viertelstündiges Werk für die ganz ungewöhnliche, aber umso reizvollere Duobesetzung von Klarinette und Harfe. Der romantisch-ironische Ti...

In 2012, I composed a set of variations (originally for orchestra and subsequently arranged for two pianos in 2013 ) based on one of Wagner's most inspired and haunting melodies, the 'alte Hirtenweise...

In the six variations, Heucke takes up typical Schubert compositional techniques and develops different variation characters, for example by playing with the major-minor tonality. A real enrichment fo...

In his III Piano Sonata op. 86, Heucke explores the question of whether the form "sonata" can stand up to the tonal language of the present day. Melody and harmony must always be re-evaluated by the l...

In den Neun Klavierstücken wird eine abwechslungreiche musikalische Landschaft entworfen. Im Zentrum stehen zwei Choralvorspiele, die sich stilistisch mit J. S. Bach auseinandersetzen. Das Werk richte...

Im Jahr 2020 komponierte Heucke für jedes Holzblasinstrument eine Sonate. Die Fagottsonate spielt die reizvollen charakterisierenden Gegensätze des Instruments aus und bildet so ein virtuoses und abwe...

The Sonata for bass clarinet or violoncello and piano was composed in the spring of 1995 at the suggestion of the Dutch bass clarinetist Henri Bok, to whom the work is also dedicated. The three moveme...

Im Jahr 2020 komponierte Heucke für jedes Holzblasinstrument eine Sonate. In der dreisätzigen Oboensonate begegnen dem Spieler traditionelle Formtypen, wie Scherzi, Fugen und sogar Walzer während sich...

The work was written for the famous Dutch bass clarinettist Henri Bok. It consists of six movements merging into one another, offering the player all possibilities to present the wide tonal range of t...

Im Jahr 2020 komponierte Heucke für jedes Holzblasinstrument eine Sonate. In der Flötensonate wird der bewegliche, helle und brillante Charakter des Instruments deutlich und traditionelle Formen trete...

This effective work was commissioned as the compulsory piece for this year's ARD Competition. It is inspired by the famous musical setting of the passage from the Bible, shown in the title, in the Ger...

The famous Wunderhorn song 'Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen' by Gustav Mahler forms the musical background of this work commissioned by the trumpet player Griseldis Lichdi.Heucke's one-movement trumpe...

Die Sonate op. 38 entstand im November und Dezember 2000 und ist das einzige unmittelbar autobiographische Stück, das ich bisher komponiert habe. Es ist dem Gedenken eines toten Freundes gewidmet, den...

Die zweite Violinsonate op. 58 entstand im November und Dezember 2009 und ist als freundliches Gegenstück zu der düster-aufgewühlten ersten Violinsonate op. 38 (2000) konzipiert. Die helle Grundstimmu...

The title has been taken from a review of Robert Schumann of the then newly published Préludes Op. 28. According to this reference, Stefan Heucke's Préludes are tributes to the three great piano compo...

The entire musical material of the sonata comes from the chorale 'Nun danket alle Gott' as well as the notes B-A-C-H. As to its form, the sonata principally is a four-movement work the parts of which,...

The President of the German Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, asked me to compose a piano work which should relate to the German anthem and was to be performed for the first time on the occasion of his reti...

Here it is at long last: the music for the extremely successful storybook + CD (ED 9686). It can be used for performances both with the original English words by Oscar Wilde and the German translation...

The sonata premiered in 2016 is based on the Luther chorale Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist (Come, God Creator, Holy Spirit) and consists of three parts: 'The first movement transforms the first e...

In 2012, I composed a set of variations (originally for orchestra and subsequently arranged for two pianos in 2013 ) based on one of Wagner's most inspired and haunting melodies, the 'alte Hirtenweise...