Advanced Sheet Music from Edition Kunzelmann

The hornist Robert Routch had the idea for the title to connect the terms ‘Waldhorn' and Walden Pond. There, the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived alone in the midst of the wilderness in...

Daniel Schnyder was so excited about the prospects of working with Kenny Drew jr. and David Taylor that he wrote something that he deemed impossible to play at the time. Today, the piece is still a gr...

Whole passages from the Double Concerto Sechs Klanginseln have been wrested from their context, restructured and formed into a round dance. The result is a colourful mosaic that places the original mo...

'Mormorando', music for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, refers to individual movements of Elliott Carter's 'Eight etudes and a fantasy'. These two works were composed for the same ensemble, 70 year...

This work was composed in 2017 to a commission from the CAMERATA BERN and is dedicated to the violinist Antje Weithaas. The world première took place on 14 May 2017 in the Paul Klee Centre, with the C...

'Prima nocte', Music for the first nocturnal vigil for chamber orchestra, is the first of four compositions to refer to the Roman vigils. This work utilises quartertone harmonies and revolves around t...

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Cantabile, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, is an extensive work that makes use of many of the virtues and clichés of the viola (leisureliness, melancholy, gloominess etc.), but that also refutes t...

Final(ment)e, Interplay of relationships for two trumpets and orchestra, was composed as an atmospheric counterpart to the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Several quotations from that monumental work flowed...

At the age of 15, several years before his well-known violin concertos, Henri Vieuxtemps wrote a so far unpublished violin concerto in E major. It is an ingenious work of his youth that already reveal...

Zerrissene Stille was written in 2025 for the Zug Sinfonietta and is dedicated to the memory of Wolfgang Rihm. Following the eighth string quartet Gesänge der Sehnsucht, Zerrissene Stille is Hefti's s...

Kaleidoscope 2 for string quartet was created as a arrangement of an arrangement. The saxophone quartet 'Winterkreis' ('Winter circle'), written in 1991, is the first step in this chain of arrangement...

Concubia nocte is the second of four compositions to refer to the Roman vigils. The work primarily features quartertone harmonies and revolves around the topics of dusk, night, spheres, dreams, sleepl...

At the End of Time, String Quartet No. 7, was composed for a ballet evening with Schubert's string quartet Death and the Maiden. In addition to alienated quotations, this mourning music is usually ina...

The Four Moments "Playful", "Crazy", "Hidden" and "Transfigured" for flute and string orchestra were composed in the style of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Several quotations from...

The Six sound islands were composed for a concert programme entitled 'Reigen' (round dance) that the composer curated, and were intended to provide an atmospheric bridge between dances by Ligeti, Bart...

'Songs of sorrow, songs of joy' is a homage to John Dowland. What is perhaps his most intimate lute song, 'In darkness let me dwell', is heard in full in this Viola Concerto in orchestral apparel, tho...

The Five Concertini for string orchestra is a tribute to Antonio Vivaldi, who composed over 500 solo concertos. The work consists of five micro-concertos for the five section leaders of the string orc...

This Fanfare for Wolfgang, for solo piccolo trumpet, was composed to celebrate the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Rihm. What could be better suited as his 70th-birthday greeting than a fanfare?

Whole passages from the Double Trumpet Concerto Final(ment)e have been wrested from their context, restructured and formed into a coda. The result is a colourful mosaic that places the original motive...

Yahaïouniis a word that comes from the Arabic language and means 'the light that shines in the eyes'. This capriccio-shaped piece is a free interpretation of the musical style of the 'compás moro', li...

At the age of 15, several years before his well-known violin concertos, Henri Vieuxtemps wrote a so far unpublished violin concerto in E major. It is an ingenious work of his youth that already reveal...