Jörg Widmann: Advanced Sheet Music

My String Quartet No. 8 is made up of three movements, and a fast tempo prevails almost throughout the entire work. The extreme brevity of the opening movement oscillates between rugged unisono passag...

I consider Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 130 with its Grosse Fuge as the pinnacle of all quartets. In each of the four movements, Beethoven succeeds in re-inventing the archetypal movement forms with...

The 9th String Quartet forms the penultimate work in my Beethoven Study quartet cycle. Chronologically, however, it was composed after the 10th Quartet Cavatina. And indeed, when composing it, it felt...

Jörg Widmann, an internationally sought-after soloist and professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, displays the exquisite refinement of contemporary clarinet sound in 'Fünf Bruchstücke'...

Over the years, the saxophone quartet genre had been rather foreign to me - until I heard the Kebyart Ensemble. The homogeneity and virtuosity of the sound of these four young Catalan saxophonists mad...

Kian Soltani played the world premiere of this solo work, which was commissioned by the Daniel Barenboim Foundation. In addition to scordatura effects, Widmann masterfully explores the sound worlds an...

Widmann's Études für Violine solo are in the tradition of Paganini's Capricen or the piano études by Chopin, Liszt and Ligeti: artistically autonomous concert pieces on one specific technical problem...

The five strings quartets by Jörg Widmann are compact studies, like those of his teacher Wolfgang Rihm. Performed individually, the focus is on the respective central technical and aesthetic idea. Per...

The horn piece 'Air' requires a highly virtuosic technique, as indeed it should since it was composed in 2005 as the compulsory piece for the 54th International Music Competition of the ARD. At the sa...

180 Beats per minute' entstand 1993, kurz nach meiner Schulzeit. Die damals sehr angesagten 'Techno-Nights' inspirierten mich zu diesem Stück. Ein rhythmischer Drive und ein permanenter Wechsel des Pu...

As a clarinetist frequently performing with string quartets, the clarinet quintet is a strange omission from Jörg Widmann's catalogue of works. Up until now, his quintet programmes have included works...

As a clarinetist frequently performing with string quartets, the clarinet quintet is a strange omission from Jörg Widmann's catalogue of works. Up until now, his quintet programmes have included works...

Jörg Widmann paraphrases Mendelssohn's famous wedding march from the Midsummer Night's Dream solo in this piece for violin solo. The paraphrase was actually written for a wedding that took place in Ro...

Jörg Widmann paraphrases Mendelssohn's famous wedding march from the Midsummer Night's Dream solo in this piece for violin solo. The paraphrase was actually written for a wedding that took place in Ro...

Jörg Widmann wrote his cadenzas on Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 for the cellist Jan Vogler in 2002. These cadenzas add a virtuoso texture to Haydn's spirited composition. This series, unique in classi...

Over the years, I have periodically composed a number of (unpublished) lieder, but have only now created my first 'official' lieder cycle for Christian Gerhaher and his accompanist Gerold Huber. Unfam...

With the title of this composition, Fever Fantasy, Jörg Widmann refers to its musical air: 'I often feel Robert Schumann's melodic shape to be like the amplitude of a temperature curve: nervous, flicke...