Instrumentation: for violin and viola

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe and viola

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 13' 00"

Based on poems by Hofmannsthal and Trakl

Instrumentation: for alto, flute (picc), oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Duration: 30' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano and chamber orchestra (2.0.1.0/1.0.0.0/timp.str)

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript

Duration: 20' 00"

Based on poems by Rückert, Jacobsen and Hofmannsthal

Instrumentation: for baritone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, violin, viola and violoncello

Texts: Friedrich Rückert, Jens Peter Jacobsen und Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Both diaries - each one with its own character - are loosely formed into sequences alternating as instrumental and vocal pieces. When heard together, the lyrical character of the whole shines through.

Duration: 20' 00"

Musical fairytale

Instrumentation: for singing voice and small orchestra (1.0.0.0/0.1.0.0/pf/str)

Texts: R. Juillet

Text: R. Juillet.

Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for four-handed piano

Duration: 18' 00"

Musical comedy

Instrumentation: for singing actor and two pianos

Three movements, slower movement than adagietto. Based on Schubert’s adagio in the string quintet.

Duration: 18' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (3(pic).2(ca).3(bcl).asx.1/0.4.2.0/2perc/hp/str)

Duration: 18' 00"

Duration: 13' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute, violin and violoncello

Duration: 13' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/3timp/str)

Duration: 10' 00"

Duration: 7' 00"

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (1.1.1.0/1.0.0.0/str)

This piece has no connection to the string quartet bearing the same name by Alban Berg.

Duration: 16' 00"

Based on a ballad by Bert Brecht.

Instrumentation: for speaking voice, mixed choir, speaking choir and chamber orchestra (1(pic).1.2(2bcl).0/1.1.1.1/3perc/hp/pf/str)

Texts: Bertolt Brecht

Can be understood as a fable on the subject of mans disrespect towards nature and natures fight back. The text is set in a kind of sonata form 'Exposition' and 'Reprise' represent the basic situation and the 'Durchführungen' represents the conflict between man and his environment.

Duration: 21' 00"

Instrumentation: for one percussionist and seven instrumentalists (1(pic).0.1.0.bsx/1.1.1.0/db)

A virtuoso piece with a certain jazz-like flavour for a single solo percussionist.

Duration: 10' 00"

Chamber cantata

Instrumentation: for Soprano, flute and guitar

Texts: Altgriechisch

Text: Early Greek fragments.

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe and viola

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for string trio

Very demanding in style and performance technique.

Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: for wind quintet

Very difficult.

Duration: 14' 00"

Duration: 7' 00"

radio play music

Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for seven instruments: flute, oboe (oboe d'amore), clarinet (bass clarinet), harp and string trio

Requires excellent interplay. Musically demanding.

Duration: 20' 00"

Instrumentation: for clarinet, harp and string orchestra

Soloistic, concertante but actually symphonic.

Duration: 22' 00"

Instrumentation: for two horns, trumpet and trombone

Stylistically demanding with technically precarious polyphony.

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for three-part female choir

Texts: Theodor Storm

Text: Theodor Storm.

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe, bassoon and harpsichord

Duration: 11' 00"

A discourse on the traditional three-movement piano sonata stamped with a personal tonal language. Virtuosic.

Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: (3(3pic).2(2ca).3(Ebcl,3bcl).2(2cbn)/4.3.3.1/4perc/hp.cel/str)

In sonata form challenging the tonal language of Suter in the 1960's. Three movements: fast - slow - fast. Freely shaped symmetries make it easier for the listener to follow the form.

Duration: 20' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute and oboe

A virtuosic ensemble piece for lovers of canonical playing.

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for brass (3tpt.3tbn), strings (thirteen-part) and percussion

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for viola and orchestra (1.1.2.2/4.0.0.0/4perc.cym/hp.cel. /gtr/str)

The harp, guitar, celesta and cymbal lend this piece a particular sonority. Although the guitar is a kind of accompaniment to the solo part it is also allowed a special relevance.

Duration: 30' 00"

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo

Duration: 11' 00"

Motet

Instrumentation: for mixed choir

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

A quasi pantheistic hymn where the denomination free can also partake.

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for horn (also two bongos), string trio, piano (also crotale with metal staff and a drum brush)

From an amorphous stiffness an articulated, musical process frees itself, gradually thawing and freezing again. The horn player and pianist can handle the smaller percussion instruments quite easily.
Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.


Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for percussion and instrumental groups (six solo percussionists, three clarinets (in E-flat, B and bass clarinet), two saxophones (alto and baritone), three trumpets, three trombones, two pianos, celesta and six double-bass (including five stringed)

A concertante executed piece with multifaceted tonal and rhythmical evolvements.

Duration: 18' 00"

From the greatest sound development and tightest movements to inaudibility and complete cessation of movement.

Duration: 8' 00"

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello and percussion

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for medium singing voice and guitar

Texts: Klabund

Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: (3(pic,afl).3(ca).3(bcl).3(cbn)/6.3.4.0/4perc/hp/gtr/str)

Duration: 28' 00"

Choral ballad

Instrumentation: for Tenor, Baritone, Bass, male choir, boys choir and instrumental ensemble (0.0.0.0/4.3.3.1/4perc.8db)

Texts: Bertolt Brecht

In regard to the text and performers, singers and players this is a piece exclusively for males.

Duration: 22' 00"

Instrumentation: for saxophone quartet

Plays also in very contrast rich composition types: free tonal development, monorhythm, mensuration canon and a virtuosic finale.

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for three clarinet players and one guitar (clarinets in Eb, B and A, two basset horns, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet)

Descending from an extremely high to an extremely low sound register, gradual slowing of a ground tempo, sweeps from high volume to barely audible breathing. Guitar has cadenzas in free metre.

Duration: 14' 00"

3 x 2 Etudes

Instrumentation: for violin and piano

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for s and a saxophone, vibraphone (also a small percussion) and a twelve-part string orchestra

Both soloists require specialist knowledge of certain modern playing techniques.

Duration: 19' 00"

Metamorphoses of a theme

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 10' 00"

Ein (An-)Klagegesang

Instrumentation: for soprano, tenor, speaking voice, two mixed choirs, speaking choir and large orchestra (3.3.3.3/6.4.8.0/4perc/hp/str)

Texts: Paul Celan, Carl Amery

Text: Paul Celan, Carl Amery.

Duration: 28' 00"

Instrumentation: for singing voice and piano accompaniment

Texts: Otto Julius Bierbaum, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Frank Wedekind

Based on poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Rudolf Alexander Schröder and Frank Wedekind. An attempt to arouse a little bit of a cabaret atmosphere.

Duration: 20' 00"

Music for orchestra

Instrumentation: (3(2afl,3pic).3(3ca).3(3bcl).3(3cbn)/4.3.3.1/3perc/hp/gtr/str)

The title here stands for a sort of declaration of what music means to the author and the meaning it may portray to others. Only music can tell that which is inherent in it. Experience has shown that this is very important.

Duration: 16' 00"

Etude

Instrumentation: for bassoon and piano

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for large orchestra (3(pic,afl).3(ca).3.bthn.3(cbn)/6.4.4.1/4perc/3hp/3gtr/min:14.12.10.8.6/3 high tpt extra), three sopranos and electronic tape

Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for alto, tenor, baritone and nineteen Baroque instruments

Texts: William Shakespeare, Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Francesco Petrarca

Based on sonnets by Shakespeare, Hoffmannswaldau and Petrarca with an instrumental prelude and postlude.

Duration: 18' 30"

Five English songs

Instrumentation: for Soprano and guitar

Texts: Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Fletcher, Benjamin Johnson, Sir Philip Sidney

A male choir stapled rondo-like as a prelude, intermezzo and postlude to the guitar play. Based on texts by Robert Browning, Robert Burns, John Fletcher, Benjamin Johnson and Sir Philip Sidney.

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for organ

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/3.2.1.0/2perc/str)

Pastiche using typical baroque music formulae: kinetic impetus, ostinato, differing instrumentations, alternating focus on soli and tutti etc. Melody and harmony however, are freed of historic reference through a self-refined ordering of tonal intervals.
Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.


Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: for six percussionists

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for alto recorder and guitar

Duration: 8' 30"

Instrumentation: for wind orchestra

Duration: 12' 30"

Based on texts by Thomas Bernhard

Instrumentation: for middle-low singing voice and piano

Texts: Thomas Bernhard

An experiment in musical dialogue with a textual challenge.

Duration: 22' 00"

Instrumentation: for mixed boy's choir and wind ensemble

Texts: Fritz Liebrich

Text: Fritz Liebrich.

Duration: 19' 00"
Manuscript

Single movement, but clearly structured by contrasting tempi throughout.

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for violin solo

A musical piece with a kind of playful discourse between two opposing characters.

Duration: 9' 00"

A Greeting Prélude

Instrumentation: for large wind orchestra setting

Duration: 3' 10"

Musical ‘action’ in three movements: 1. Athematic, implements an intervallic bound motive, 2. Springs from a single melodic idea; 3. Fleeing, urgent, moving and culminating in the abrupt entrance of hard percussive chords, stagnating conclusion - no way out.

Duration: 21' 00"

Instrumentation: for one percussionist

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Concert

Instrumentation: for marimba, piano and instrumental ensemble with wind instruments, percussion and deep strings

Duration: 32' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for violin and viola

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2(1afl,2pic).2(2ca).2(1Ebcl,2bcl).2(2cbn)/4.2.0.0/2perc/str)

The quest by a contemporary musician for 'the sound', the one 'absolute' music, and the specific language and means of communication that lies within it.

Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: for four intrumentalists (contrabass clarinet, violoncello, guitar and percussion)

An extraordinary instrumental scoring which requires the unrehearsed fantasy of the composers.

Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for guitar solo

Once again: A theme with variations. Playful, finesse-full and guitaresque!

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for large orchestra (3.3.3.3(almost all doubling)/6.4.4.1/4perc/3hp/3gtr/14.12.10.8.6) three soprano voices and electronic sounds

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: scored for a medium voice and small orchestra (2.2.0.2/2.2.0.0/str)

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for saxophone and chamber orchestra (2.0.2.0/2.2.2.1/3perc/str)

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for vocal quartet and organ

Texts: David Schirmer

Based on a poem by David Schirmer (1623-1686) taken from ‘Poetische Rosengepüsche’ (1657).
The first four strophes of a poem in five strophes are sung individually and in an alternating manner by the tenor, alto, soprano and baritone. It is only in the last strophe that the group unite as a quartet.


Duration: 13' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet

A playful, dance-like homage.

Duration: 7' 00"

A music piece in free form developed as a dialogue between two instruments using the characteristic sound and technique possibilities of the respective instruments as a means of communication.

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe and cymbal

Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute

Duration: 10' 00"

Based on poems by Szymborska, Loerke and Neruda

Instrumentation: for two singing voices (ST) and ten instruments (fl(afl).ob(obdam).cl(bcl).bn/hn/perc/gtr/va.vc.db)

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano and chamber orchestra (wind quintet, percussion and strings, min. (10.8.6.4)

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for alto solo

Duration: 5' 00"

Instrumentation: for percussion solo and large orchestra (3.2.3.4sx.2/0.3.3.1/4perc/12.12.10.8.8)

An improvising soloist (Fritz Hauser) with a severely through-composed orchestral piece.

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for four-part male choir and two percussion players

Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for oboe solo

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for violin, trombone and piano

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for clarinet, violoncello, guitar and percussion

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for clarinet, violoncello and piano

Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for string orchestra (6.6.4.4.2)

Duration: 18' 00"

Instrumentation: for baritone and string sextet (2.2.1.1)

Texts: Achim von Arnim

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for percussion and piano

Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (0.2.0.1/2.0.0.0/2.1.1.1)

Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for tenor and guitar

Texts: Erich Fried

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute solo

Duration: 6' 00"