Sheet Music Downloads by Jörg Widmann

Referring to Robert Schumann, the title sets the general mood of these character pieces which alternate between Romantic and contemporary tonal language. This is how the composer stresses it in his pr...

Widmann's Intermezzi are influenced by the famous cycles of Johannes Brahms (Op. 116 - Op. 119) which are cited quite frequently. In the preface of the edition, Widmann hints at its 'unsettling reduct...

My dark and shadowy piano Intermezzi are followed by these Zirkustänze [circus dances]. They are naturally - on a superficial level - simpler, more cheerful, brighter and also more garish, drastic and...

'Fleurs du mal' ostensibly fits into the traditional pattern of the three-movement piano sonata and conforms to rudimentary sonata form. Yet the formal restrictions - including the predominance of the...

This piece was composed by Jörg Widmann for the Italian pianist Irene Russo in 2003. Consisting only of sharp pulse patterns and their lingering sound, it explores the tonal possibilities of the whole...

Lichtstudie III ist eine Studie zur Variabilität pianistischer Clusterbildungen. Inspiriert von den Raum-Licht-Installationen James Turrells wird eine Statik von Klangflächen erprobt, ein introspektiv...

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...

Mein frühes, noch zu Schulzeiten entstandenes Streichquartett aus 'Absences' ist ein erster Gehversuch in der 'heiligen' Gattung Streichquartett, eine frühe Vorstudie zu meinem sehr viel später entsta...

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...

It was at the suggestion of the conductor of the World Première, Mariss Jansons, that Jörg Widmann refers to musical characteristics of Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphony. His starting points primarily...

Mit seinem Orchesterwerk Armonica begibt sich Jörg Widmann auf die Suche nach der Harmonie. Klänge wie von einer Glasharmonika bestimmen Anfang und Ende des Stücks. In seinem Verlauf weitet sich das W...

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...

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...