David Philip Hefti: Advanced Sheet Music

The song cycle 'E las culurs dals tuns' ('And the colours of sounds') was composed in 2017 to a commission by the Summer Music Days festival in Hitzacker. The cycle in twelve parts is a setting of Rom...

David Philip Hefti‘s fourth piano piece, 'Ritmico', is comprised of three fragmentary, individual movements. The focus of this brief work is on the rhythmic components of the music, leaving almost all...

The piano piece describes twilight, the night, dreams and sleeplessness with a gentle basic character. This calm is abruptly broken in the second part of the piece, tumbling out of a dream into a feve...

This work was composed shortly after the composer conducted Jürg Dähler and the Musikkollegium Winterthur in the world première of his Viola Concerto Cantabile in January 2021. Whole passages from Can...

The short movements élan, resonance, vehemence and harmony can be performed as a suite or as individual movements. They were premiered as part of a matinée for Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin.

Die '12 Fantasien' für Flöte solo entstanden 2015 im Auftrag der Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte und sind dem Flötisten Philipp Jundt gewidmet. Die Uraufführung durch den Widmungsträger fand im Rahmen der It...

The 'Cadenza and interludes' for the Sonata in a minor for solo flute (Wq 132) by C. P. E. Bach were written to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt, who gave the first performance of the work...

The Cadenzas and interludes were written in 2021 to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt. The brief cadenzas were mostly composed for a single breath, in the spirit of Quantz. The interludes r...

Gallicinium, Music for the fourth nocturnal vigil for wind quintet, is the last of four compositions whose starting point is the Roman vigils of the church. The harmonies of this work alternate betwee...

'à la recherche...', for clarinet, viola and piano, gropes its way forward slowly, in a manner almost fragile, searching for a binding form for itself. Thus ever greater contrasts emerge between clear...

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...

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...

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...