Jörg Widmann Sheet Music for Ensemble

Jörg Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens cultural program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is...

This Piano Trio Passacaglia is the 'junior' companion piece to my Cello Concerto Dunkle Saiten [Dark Strings], or more precisely to the concerto's large-dimensional introductory section with the indic...

Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a...

Widmann's Quintet is a deliberate tribute to Mozart's work for the same instrumentation (KV 452), both of which can be easily combined. In contrast to Mozart's classical forms of movements, Widmann co...

Der 'normale' Tastatur-Klavierklang bleibt in diesem Stück die Ausnahme, in der Singstimme wird auf Text weitgehend verzichtet und die Klarinettenstimme ist übersät mit Luft- und Mehrklängen.

'Should muses be silent while the guns speak?' asks Jörg Widmann, who was only 20 years old when composing this piece, with his Trio for Clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, a musical essay on three...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

This is one of the early works by which the clarinettest Jörg Widmann also made himself a name as a composer. The form develops from the - at first only tentative - interaction of the three instrument...

Jörg Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens cultural program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is...

This Piano Trio Passacaglia is the 'junior' companion piece to my Cello Concerto Dunkle Saiten [Dark Strings], or more precisely to the concerto's large-dimensional introductory section with the indic...

Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a...

Widmann's Quintet is a deliberate tribute to Mozart's work for the same instrumentation (KV 452), both of which can be easily combined. In contrast to Mozart's classical forms of movements, Widmann co...

Der 'normale' Tastatur-Klavierklang bleibt in diesem Stück die Ausnahme, in der Singstimme wird auf Text weitgehend verzichtet und die Klarinettenstimme ist übersät mit Luft- und Mehrklängen.

'Should muses be silent while the guns speak?' asks Jörg Widmann, who was only 20 years old when composing this piece, with his Trio for Clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, a musical essay on three...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

This is one of the early works by which the clarinettest Jörg Widmann also made himself a name as a composer. The form develops from the - at first only tentative - interaction of the three instrument...

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...

Es war 1996, als mir Christoph Poppen, der damalige Leiter des Münchener Kammerorchesters, von einem kuriosen Konzert in Münsing (Ammerland) erzählte: während eines seiner Konzerte mit dem Orchester i...

Jörg Widmann dedicated 'Freie Stücke' to his teacher Wolfgang Rihm on his fiftieth birthday in 2002. The ten pieces for mixed ensemble or orchestra are 'inspired by the wish for concentration and redu...

Text von Peter Sloterdijk Partitur und Stimmen - deutsch Auch nach ihrer Beendigung lassen mich die Schlusszeilen des Skorpionmenschen aus meiner Babylon-Oper nicht los: er tötet die Illusion in sich...