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Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Alfred Oelschlegel was born in Anscha (Bohemia, now Czech Republic) on 25 February 1847. He was a student at the Prague organ school, and worked as a theater conductor among others in Hamburg, Würzbur...

Contains jazz elements without being jazz. Some of the melodic structures are quite bluesy.

Spielpartitur(en), Stimmensatz Klav/V/Va/Vc

Album comprising short pieces, each written in honour of a living composer. Three are scored for piano quintet, the other for piano quartet.For Michael (piano quintet) was composed in 2004 to mark Mic...

Irrwische oder auch Irrlichter sind kleine Flammengeister, die über die Erde tanzen und die Wanderer von ihrem sicheren Weg in die Irre und letztlich in den Tod führen. Gleichzeitig können sie aber au...

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

Christian Jost spent the summer of 1987 in an Indian reservation in Arizona. Impressed by the foreign culture and deeply moved by the visit of a Native American burial site, he composed - apart from o...

The piano quartet 'Lost traces' is based on the piano trio Distant traces in which the violoncello had been replaced by a viola, a fact that is highly unusual for the genre. Whereas the first version...

Schumann's early piano quartet composed in 1829 has not yet found its way into the concert repertoire, although it would be well-earned. This is due to the fact that the work has only been available i...

Weber's Quartet is a successful symbiosis of concert and chamber music elements which was to contribute significantly to the genre's change of function. It is especially due to the virtuoso elaboratio...

Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier. Das Werk soll Christian Josts Bewunderung für den Regisseur Stanley Kubrick ausdrücken. Ein kurzes Eröffnungsmodell führt in eine rhythmische Figur, die sich m...

Ferdinand Ries ist am 28. 11. 1784 in Bonn geboren. Von seinem Vater Franz Ries, der auch den jungen Beethoven unterrichtet hatte, erhielt er den ersten Klavierunterricht. 1801 kam er nach Wien, wo ih...

Johann Ladislaus Dussek (Jan Ladislav Dussik), geboren am 12. Februar 1760 in Caslau (Bezirk Pardubitz), entstammte einer traditionsreichen Musikerfamilie. Bei seinem Vater erlernte er bereits als Fün...