Helmut Lachenmann Sheet Music for Orchestra

Marche fatale is a incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Mar...

My own new orchestral composition has the title 'WRITING'. The practical action of writing, as a mechanical action by hand, pen, brush, on a surface (paper, parchment, stone, etc.), triggered and cont...

First performance Stuttgart (Musik der Zeit), April 23, 1971

Premiere Saarbrücken (Musik im 20. Jahrhundert), May 30, 1976UA of the version with reduced strings Berlin, Konzerthaus January 24, 2006, Ensemble Modern Orchestra (EMO)

First performance Saarbrücken (Music in the 20th Century), May 15, 1983

Premiere Cologne (Musik der Zeit), April 18, 1986 CD :Massimiliano Damerini, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Peter EötvösCD col legno WWE 31862

Lachenmann's compositional 'commentary' on Beethoven's 9th Symphony quickly became known even as it was being written: In 1985, the symphony orchestra of the Südwestfunk refused to play the commission...

UA Brussels, April 25, 1969

UA Hamburg, June 4, 1989

More than my earlier works, this one is interspersed with metrically bound rhythms and musicianly characters that constantly recrystallize and drift towards or away from familiar situations. The famil...

Premiere Cologne (Musik der Zeit), October 20, 1999