Triton I-VI (1989-1990)
for piano solo
Duration: 10' 00"

Abscheu vor dem Paradies (1991)
for soprano, alto and viola
Texts: Karoline von Günderrode, Christina Thürmer-Rohr
Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 49.00

Vagabundinnen (1992)
for flute, string trio, harp (or bass), piano and electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD)
Texts: Christina Thürmer-Rohr
Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 73.00

Vagabundinnen (1992-1998)
for electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD) and orchestra (1.2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/2.2.1.1/hp/str)
Texts: Christina Thürmer-Rohr
A version for chamber orchestra (wind quintet, strings, piano and electronic tape) is also available (1994).
Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 39.00

LaUtDeMiLa (1992-1993)
for viola solo
Duration: 10' 00"

Irritation I (1993)
for four-handed piano
Duration: 10' 00"

Almah (1993-1994/99)
for string quartet and walking horn
For Le Corbusier’s pilgrimage chapel ‘Notre Dame du Haut’ in Ronchamp (France). Commissioned and in cooperation with the Technical University in Zurich (ETH).
Duration: 16' 00"

Guggisbärglied (1994-1995)
Free adaptation of a folk song
for choir
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Sec''ondes (1995)
for wind quintet (fl.ob.cl.hn.bn), viola and piano
Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 31.00

Cordes-Ouvertes (1995-1996)
for violin solo
Duration: 12' 00"

RéSONANCE?! (1996-1997)
for bass clarinet, horn (Alphorn), violoncello and electronic (CD/DAT or MD)
After texts by Hannah Arendt.
This piece uses a half conventional score with 'cell' improvisation. All instruments are to be amplified where possible.
Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 21.00

4instruments2 (1997-1998)
for dance, double-bass (or violoncello), thunder board and electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD)
Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Nightselves oder Meine Nacht schläft nicht (1997-2001)
for large orchestra without violins (2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn/3.3.3.cbtbn.cbtba/timp.6perc/va.vc.db)
After a picture and texts by Sonja Sekula.
Ensemble version (2007): Clarinet, horn, violoncello, double bass and accordion.
Duration: 25' 00"

sacht ä: aequatuor (1999-2000/02)
for prepared piano, violoncello and oboe
Based on a text by Uwe Johnson.
Duration: 16' 00"

Canthus to Canthus (1999)
for various instrumentation, voice and electronic tape (CD)
Texts: Anne Blonstein
Based on eighteen text fragments (sand.soda.lime) by Anne Blonstein.
Duration: 18' 00"

Enigma (1999)
for voice and ensemble (ob.bcl.hn/perc/vn.va.vc) tape or CD and live electronic
Texts: Ingeborg Bachmann
Based on a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann.
Duration: 13' 23"

Na? (1999)
for horn and seven other wind instruments: two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets and bassoon
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

sacht ä: klangheimlich (1999-2000)
for bass clarinet, violoncello and prepared piano
Based on a text by Uwe Johnson. Partly interactive score.
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript

sacht ä: ciel'e terra (1999-2000/02)
for percussion, double-bass and prepared piano
Based on a text by Uwe Johnson.
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript

3 Lieder (1999-2000)
for voices and percussion
Texts: Ingeborg Bachmann
'A-a' for voices and percussion.
'Orpheus' based on Ingeborg Bachmann, for voice solo (and open grand piano)
'Enigma' based on Ingeborg Bachmann, for voice solo (piano and percussion ad libitum).

Duration: 30' 00"-45' 00"

sacht ä: e-vent (1999-2000/02)
for alto flute, English horn and bass clarinet
Based on a text by Uwe Johnson.
Duration: 16' 00"

sacht ä: ensemble (1999-2000/02)
for prepared piano, violin, flute and bass clarinet
Based on a text by Uwe Johnson.
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript

sacht ä: ecco (1999-2007)
for saxophone, violoncello and accordion
Duration: 14' 00"

Cordes-Ouvertes II (1999)
Electronically adapted version
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript

Différance I (2000)
for large orchestra
Duration: 7' 30"
Manuscript

A - a (2000-2002)
On the trail of a hidden poem
for medium voice and percussion
Duration: 15' 00"

4 S (2001-2002)
for vocal quartet
Texts: Anne Blonstein
Duration: 20' 00"

Der Tunnel - eine Zugbiografie (2002)
for prepared piano, soprano, oboe, violoncello and playback CD
Texts: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Duration: 22' 00"

diaphonie II (2002)
for double-bass solo
Duration: 13' 00"

WAX - Soundscape for theatre (2002)
Electronic music
For a theatre piece about Emily Kempin Spyri.
Duration: 55' 00"
Manuscript

Prelude and Echo (2003)
for black quartet (saxophone, drums, Bass/vocals, piano)
A concept composition based on five poems by Anne Blonstein.
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript

von Widerständen I (2003)
6 miniatures
for trombone, horn, soprano saxophone, accordion, percussion and piano
Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

Quasar 04 (2003-2004)
Composition with youths
for orchestra and playback
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Riitiseili (2003-2004)
Installation for children and adults
In collaboration with Josh Martin.
Manuscript

Narziss und Echo (2004)
for clarinet solo
Duration: 12' 00"

notstrom (2004)
for orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.0.1/2perc/4.3.3.2.1), soprano, tenor, baritone, speaking voice and on-site percussion
Duration: 80' 00"
Manuscript

Drift (Von Widerständen II) (2004)
Study
for accordion solo
Duration: 23' 00"

Drei Songs (2004)
for soprano, piano, violin, percussion and tuba
Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

Souffle combattant (2005)
for a 5 and an 8 stringed viola and ensemble (1.1.1.1/1.0.2.0/2perc/pf.cel/1.1.1.0)
"Souffle combattant" pays homage to the composition "Cordes plus" by Maurice Benhamou (*1936). Benhamou wrote "Cordes plus" in close cooperation with the violist Kurt Meyerhans who had already had a 5 and an 8 stringed viola specially made for other compositions and improvisations. "Cordes plus" was world premiered in 1974 in Bourges (Festival International de Musique Experimentale). Further performances followed in the years 1976 in Paris (Centre des Universitaires Juifs) and 1983 in Switzerland. Some members of the audience at these concerts fled the concert hall rather disgruntled. The electronic tape, the wild viola and polystyrene used in parts of the composition were too much for the ears ("Cordes plus" was created under the impression of various wars between 1967 and 1973 as well as other influences)
Commissioned by radio "Espace2" I have written this composition for Marie Schwab (who now uses the 5 and 8 stringed violas once belonging to Kurt Meyerhans) and the "Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain" using a radio recording of "Cordes plus" as a basis. In my composition:
1. is a live recording of "Cordes plus" (Radio France 1977) electronically processed, (partly) altered and played back
2. the solo viola part is based on the solo viola voice by Kurt Meyerhans
3. the ensemble is developed in a dialogue which takes as its subject the "Gleichzeitigkeit von Verschiedenheit und Gemeinsamkeit" ("Simultaneity of Differences and Similarities") by
Christine Thürmer-Rohr.
"Souffle combattant" was created purely associatively; it is a Re-Action and fragmentary (musical, political and personal) memory. The title affords a possible link: "Souffle combattant" after the etching bearing the same name by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange.
Duration: 27' 00"
Manuscript

Essays I-V (2005)
for voice and piano
Texts: Nijolé Miliauskaité
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

"Breitengrad Leipzig" (2005)
An accessible concert
for one venue, 2 voices and ensemble (2tpt.2hn.2tbn/string quartet)
Duration: 50' 00"
Manuscript

Mela Meierhans (2005)
Film music
for violin and synthesizer
Duration: 35' 00"
Manuscript

"Tante Hänsi, ein Jenseitsreigen" (2006)
A musical thaetre
for ensemble (2 accordions, horn/alphorn, trombone/alphorn, dulcimer/large frame drum, 2 clarinets) and mezzo-soprano, countertenor and jodel choir
On the occasion of JENSEITS VOM DIESSEITS - DIESSEITS VOM JENSEITS from "Dìa de los muertos" with a focus on Mexico-Switzerland.
Duration: 70' 00"
Manuscript

Lose struCture (2006)
12 Etudes
for (prepared) piano
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript

Entzweite Gesänge (2007)
for prepared piano (and obligatory voice)
Texts: Mela Meierhans
Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript

SCHATT-ie/IRR-ungen der Annemarie von Matt (2007)
for 2 voices, clarinet, horn, accordion, violoncello, double bass
Texts: Annemarie von Matt
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript

Nightselves oder Meine Nacht schläft nicht (2007)
Ensemble version
for clarinet, horn, violoncello, double bass and accordion
After a picture and texts by Sonja Sekula.
Duration: 23' 00"
Manuscript

Ohne Titel I-III (Cairo Studies) (2008)
3 Radio features
for viola, violoncello, darbuka (drum) and playback
"o.t." was created during an extended trip to Kairo (Pro Helvetia's Artist in Residence programme in Egypt) and is a study for "RITHAA", part II of the JENSEITS TRILOGIE.
Duration: 19' 00"
Manuscript

" ... and the sound of a distance falling " (2008)
for voice and dance
Texts: Anne Blonstein
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

wer barfuss geht, geht nicht auf rosen (2009)
for voice, dance, clarinet, horn, accordion, violoncello and double bass
Texts: Mela Meierhans
Duration: 25' 00"

Rithaa - Ein Jenseitsreigen II (2009-2010)
for ensemble
Texts: Mela Meierhans, Judith Butler
Duration: 65' 00"
Manuscript

"wer barfuss geht, geht nicht auf rosen" (2009)
Composition and notaricon
for voice, dance ad lib., clarinet, horn/alphorn, accordion, violoncello and double bass
After pictures and diary scribbles by Anna Maria Bürgi.
Duration: 25' 00"

preludes for voice and tuba (2009)
conceptual composition
Texts: Anne Blonstein
Duration: variabel
Manuscript

Twentyfive (2010-2011)
A composition after Max Frisch
for soprano, mezzo-soprano and speaker
Text: Max Frisch, 25 questions from Questionnaire I (1966).
Duration: 60' 00"

malina fragmente (2011)
for string quartet and voice
Texts: Ingeborg Bachmann, Anna Maria Bürgi, Carolin Emcke
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript

"silence..." (2012)
for voice and movement
After texts by John Cage and a picture by Sonja Sekula.
Duration: variabel
Manuscript

Essays VI – X (2012)
for voice, movement and prepared piano
Texts: Nijole Miliauskaite
Manuscript

Mela Meierhans (Grammont Porträt Nr. 100, 2006)

Interpreten:

Wyttenbach, Jürg
Hauser, Fritz
Tosi, Franco
Leimgruber, Urs
Aequatuor

Werke:

Meierhans, Mela: Prelude and Echo (2003)
Meierhans, Mela: Der Tunnel - eine Zugbiografie (2002)
Meierhans, Mela: Différance I (2000)
Meierhans, Mela: Narziss und Echo (2004)
Meierhans, Mela: Essays I-V (2005)

Info: www.fonoteca.ch

Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain (Grammont Porträt Nr. MGB CTS-M97, 2006)

Interpreten:

Spina, Anna
Monot, Pierre-Alain
Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain NEC

Werke:

Wen, De-Qing: Quatre poésies (1999)
Meierhans, Mela: Souffle combattant (2005)
Mit weiteren Werken von: Georges Aperghis

Info: www.fonoteca.ch

Meierhans &Rosenberger (stv/asm Nr. 25, 2004)

Interpreten:

Meierhans, Mela

Werke:

Rosenberger, Katharina: WAX - Soundscape for theatre (2002)

Info: www.fonoteca.ch

Bitterli, Peter: Frauenmusik: "Das ist doch ganz normal". Interview mit Mela Meierhans und Sonja Metheson, in: Luzern heute (7. August 1997) 1 (1997), S. 15