Advanced Sheet Music from Edition Kunzelmann

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...

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...

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 a time when our social climate increasingly threatens to be thrown off kilter by the aggression we are experiencing in the world, it would seem that we are more than ever in need of Harmonia, the G...

Das 1979 im Auftrag des Zürcher Klarinettentrios geschriebene Klarinettentrio 'Jeux' besteht aus vier Sätzen, die das Klangspektrum fast der gesamten Klarinetteninstrumente ausloten: vom dunklen erste...

Martin Schlumpf's 'Sommerkreis' für Streichquartett von 2007, entstanden als Bearbeitung des 1991 geschriebenen Saxophonquartetts 'Winterkreis', stellt im Gesamtwerk Schlumpf's diejenige Komposition d...

'Modules' für Flöte solo entstand 2013 im Auftrag der Flötistin Isabelle Schnöller, der das Stück gewidmet ist. Sie brachte es am 10. Dezember 2013 im Rahmen der Konzertreihe 'Perspektiven' in Heilbro...

Rhapsody for Baritone and Orchestra was composed to a text by Sir Salman Rushdie that he compiled especially from his novel The Ground Benea

Das Klarinettentrio bildet das Kapitel I in meinem 'Buch der Proportionen' (seither ist auch Kapitel II, 'Cumuli III' für sieben Instrumente von 1999, entstanden). Es geht hier um eine möglichst varia...

In diesem Duo für zwei sehr unterschiedliche 'Atem'-Instrumente geistert der Jazz-Standard 'Someday My Prince Will Come' herum und hinterlässt seine Spuren. Vordergründig als kurzes deutliches Zitat n...

Pandora's Promise für Altsaxophon, Cello und Klavier besteht aus drei Sätzen, die alle mehr oder weniger gleich beginnen: insistierende Tonrepetitionen auf dem Ton G (ein wichtiger Zentralton für das...

David Philip Hefti, Schattenlinien for four natural horns and orchestra on period instruments. In Schattenlinien, the four natural horns perform as a closed quartet and draw lines, traces, edges: brea...