Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

This fiendishly virtuosic concert piece was written for trombonist Brian Diehl in 1994. A dermish is a Croatian folk dance (authentically spelled 'drmes') containing dance steps that, at times, go 'ag...

Das Scherzo hat der Komponist später in seinem Divertimento für Fagottquartett wieder verwendet.

Seit längerem setzt sich Manfred Trojahn kompositorisch mit Texten auseinander, die 'das Scheitern des Künstlers aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven' reflektieren. Vor allem 'Le Ceneri di Gramsci' von...

Seit längerem setzt sich Manfred Trojahn kompositorisch mit Texten auseinander, die 'das Scheitern des Künstlers aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven' reflektieren. Vor allem 'Le Ceneri di Gramsci' von...

Zum Beethoven-Jahr sollten Komponisten ausgewählte Textstellen aus Beethovens Konversationsheften vertonen. York Höllers Text 'fokussierte sich am Ende auf den Satz ‚Das Rad läuft' - darin stecken die...

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize o...

Duo (after Ossip Mandelstam) refers to a short poem from his 1910 collection Kamen (Stone), which underlies my piece: not only is this poem its epigraph, it is also quoted metrically throughout in the...

Three progressive collections of contemporary string quartet repertoire from leading composers to encourage and facilitate the development of ensemble playing. Compiled and edited by Liz Partridge, ea...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

Rest These Hands is an arrangement of three movements form The Violin - a suite of seven pieces for multi-tracked violins. The first movement, also titled Rest These Hands, was originally composed for...

My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacin...

Foreign Tongues explores a different way of looking at the standard string quartet setup. Envisaged as a work where the cello is pitted against the rest of the string players, the piece aims to explor...

My second string trio is a more large-scale piece than the compact, single-movement first, written just over a decade ago. It is made up of seven short movements, each one picking up an idea, or a not...

Written in a single day in August 2012 while on a residency in Massachusetts, this simple piece makes an interplay with the respective colours of the violin and cello. Both instruments are retuned, ca...

This quartet is in five movements. I wrote the penultimate movement first. It is a personal reflection on William Byrd’s setting of the fifth century hymn ‘Christe, qui lux es et dies’. That ancient m...

String Quartet No. 2 begins and ends with musical ideas that were in the back of my mind in some form or other since my teens. In the process of moving house during 2020 I rediscovered some old minidi...

This piece is made of a sequence of eight short movements. It begins with an ascent and a gradual unfurling. We hear a network of voices flowing, pulsating, revolving, crying out. The music moves betw...

My love is as a fever wurde von Sonetten William Shakespeares inspiriert. Das Werk entstand für das Faust Quartett mit dem Anspruch, bei neuer Kompositionstechnik, sowohl vom emotionalen Ausdruck als...

The original work providing the basis of this arrangement is the Ciaccona for string orchestra dating from 2005 written on the occasion of the death of Pope Johannes Paul II. The composer incorporated...