Strauss Edition Wien / Verlagsgruppe Hermann

The title of the work is taken from the poem "Finsternis" [Darkness] by Paul Celan, written in 1941. The poem speaks of painful loss in times of violence, and culminates in the line that was chosen as...

Duo A2 for violin and cello was written for Franz Bartolomey, the principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic. The piece is divided into various phases whose individual characteristics are identified...

The formal component of the Duo A3 for violin and viola is characterized by a film-like structural concept—which is why the three individual parts are also referred to as "cuts." Each of these cuts re...

The Duo A9 for violin and double bass plays with tempo relations within a rhythmically complex structure and thus generates an extreme intensification and transformation of character whereby syncopati...

The Halbthurn Capriccioso is dedicated to the Austrian composer Robert Schollum (1913-1987), who was a tireless campaigner for contemporary Austrian music. He established his own series on Austrian ra...

The Epilogue develops from the completed material of Just an Accident? op. 9 as an attempt to compress the musical material of the large piece into a miniature. The Epilogue expresses the will of life...

The first volume of the Gemini Duos by René Staar contains some the most unusual settings in classical music. The obligatory part in all of these 15 pieces is the violin, while the other part is alway...

Eine etwa 10-minütige Parodie rasch folgender Episoden, geistreich miteinander verwoben zu einer >Antihelden

Parodies often play a liberating role in a composer's output: they can serve as loosening exercises between the earnest efforts of constantly searching in the "mine" for new, noble metals of musical i...

A virtuosic encore piece meant to be performed after great violin concertos, written for my fellow student and friend Rainer Küchl, who retired in the fall of 2016 after serving 45 years as concertmas...

This short piece is an elaborated concert version of one of the miniatures from the 2nd volume of the violin method with highly complex, increasing rhythms and meters.

The "duel" between two violins, which could also be staged, begins with a dispute that is musically represented by several interwoven micropolyphonic formations. Then, as in Eugene Onegin's pistol due...

Ständchen is the German word for "Serenade," which is related to the word "Stehen," which means "Standing." Therefore, I invented the word "Sitzchen," which would mean "to serenade from a sitting posi...

The experience of a “bise” (i.e. a cold wind down from Mont Blanc covering Lake Geneva with ice crystals) on a starry Christmas night became the initial impulse for this little composition. An arrange...

Vision No. 1, entitled "Cosmos," is part of a wide panorama of human ideas about the universe, life and love, set to musical sounds. The wide spectrum of dense and loose textures, and the contrast of...

Three ragtimes and a samba, hence "3R1S," are 4 miniatures from the first volume of the violin method op. 26 in a version for 3 clarinets, violin, cello and piano. They were written for two families o...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...

The edition Several versions of the opera Falstaff survive from Verdi's lifetime. These have been analysed and evaluated for this edition, using new scholarly methods developed on the basis of compreh...