Sheet Music Downloads by Jörg Widmann

As implied by the title Sonatina facile, this piano piece is an homage to Mozart's famous Sonata in C major K. 545. Not only are the movement headings Allegro - Andante - Rondo identical, but Jörg Wid...

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'...

In 2006, Jörg Widmann composed these noble, deliberately simple cadenzas for Mozart's violin concerto as a commission from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and violinist Isabelle van Keulen. In t...

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...

Although I never had any 'official' lessons with him, Heinz Holliger has become and will always remain a lifelong teacher to me. And we have developed a friendship that started 10 years ago, in Davos,...

In diesem als Entdeckungsreise gedachten Klangexperiment werden Resonanzkombinationen von Stimme und Klavier erforscht. Sämtliche Stimmaktionen gelangen durch Röhren an die Schalllöcher im Flügelinnen...

Jörg Widmanns Diabelli-Variation entstand im Rahmen von Rudolf Buchbinders Diabelli 2020-Projekt, bei dem zahlreiche zeitgenössische Komponisten neue Variationen zu dem Zyklus Beethovens komponierten....

After an early mini piece for this instrumentation, Bunte Blätter (Coloured Leaves) is my first real piece for two pianos. It has become a collection of highly diverse and multifaceted pieces and form...

Jörg Widmann composed this short piece in 2015 for the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. In this piece, the cello is used in an anything but classical manner: The hands hit the fingerboard, the fingers...

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...

It was a pleasure to respond to Sol Gabetta's invitation to contribute a piece to her "Songs Without Words" project with Bertrand Chamayou. The title is closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn Barth...

Jörg Widmann composed the three-movement work in 2016 in memory of the Swiss flautist Aurèle Nicolet. The world premiere took place as part of a concert in Freiburg which was dedicated to Nicolet who...

I have felt closely connected to the city of Barcelona and its magnificent music temple Palau de la Música Catalana for many years. When I received the request to write a piece for this special place,...

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...

For me, the viola has always been first and foremost an extraordinary vocal instrument. For me as a musician, playing chamber music with the viola is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Sto...

This piece centres on the medium of air. I wanted to produce a musical interpretation of the mythical figure of Icarus. This myth says a lot about the role of the artist. I have been inspired by a won...

The Aria for strings composed in Aldeburgh in 2015 is an aria in the literal sense: the multiple divided strings give the impression of imaginary voices. Each part is separately developed in the funda...

My quartets composed between 1997 and 2005 were conceived as an interconnected, self-contained cycle of works ranging from the (in my opinion) quasi revolutionary Quartet No. 1 to the Quartet No. 5 en...