Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin and violoncello

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (2(pic).1.ca.2(cbl).1/0.2.2.0/timp.3perc/pf.hp/hpd/str)

Duration: 14' 00"

Cantata based on native texts

Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (3(pic).2.ca.0.bcl.2/0.0.3.3/timp.perc/hp.pf/xyl.glock/db)

Duration: 23' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for harpsichord

Duration: 4' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano and orchestra (1.1.1.1/2mellophones.tpt/timp.perc/org/str)

Duration: 5' 00"

Cantata based on japanese short poems.

Instrumentation: for choir, choir soli numbers, and instrumental ensemble (fl.cl.bcl/pf/perc/2vn.va.db)

Texts: Japanisch

Highly dependent on good diction and close conformity to the character of the text. An amateur choir with trained voices can overcome the difficulties contained within.

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (1.pic.1.ca.2.bcl.1/2.1.1.1/pf.hp/str)

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for eight players

Duration: 22' 00"

Duration: 12' 00"

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe solo

Duration: 8' 00"

Scripted performance

Instrumentation: for narrator, soprano, baritone, speaking choir, electronic tape and orchestra (3.3.3.3./4.3.3.1/6perc/pf.hp/cel/str)

Texts: Jacques Wildberger

Text: Jacques Wildberger.

Instrumentation: for solo oboe, string orchestra, harpsichord, celesta, harp and percussion

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/4perc/str)

Duration: 11' 00"

Cantata

Instrumentation: for soprano, tenor and chamber orchestra (1.1.1.1/1.1.0.0/3perc/pf.hp/cel.hpd/0.4.3.2)

Texts: T.S. Eliot

Text: T.S. Eliot.

Duration: 14' 00"

Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: between flute/piccolo and Eb clarinet/bass clarinet/basset horn

A virtuosic piece using a total of six possible duet combinations, amongst which are five soloistic transitions.

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, harp and piano

Duration: 13' 00"

Tryptic

Instrumentation: for electronic tape, mezzo-soprano and five instruments

Texts: Michelangelo Buonarrotti, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Text: Michelangelo, Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for a solo flutist and four orchestral groups (0.0.0.cbcl.0.cbn/2.2.4.0/4perc/hp/cel.gtr.man/3.4.3.4)

Duration: 18' 00"

Duration: 6' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute, English horn, guitar (also bass flute and oboe with contact-microphones) and electronic tape

After a short instrumental trio comes a two-channel electronic tape containing recorded text dealing with the relationship of the individual to the state. Based on this text the music gradually deteriorates leaving only white noise.

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute solo

A timbral study with a fast middle section. Suitable as an encore piece.

Duration: 7' 00"

Triptychon

Instrumentation: for solo soprano, solo violoncello, orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.4.0/4perc/cel/hp/str;tp)

Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin, Bibel / Liturgie, Paul Celan, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett.

Text: Hölderlin, Bible, Celan, Camus, Heidegger, Beckett.

Duration: 25' 00"

Mulitphonics are given with precise fingerings.

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone

Demanding in all respects but with virtuosic effect.

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for organ

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for baritone and chamber orchestra (0.0.1.1/0.1.1.0/3perc/cel/5.4.3.3.1)

Texts: Johannes von Tepl, Novalis, Heinrich Heine

Text: Johannes von Tepl, Novalis, Heinrich Heine and others.

Duration: 19' 00"

Instrumentation: for soprano, orator and orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/perc(3)/hp.cel/str)

Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin, Erich Fried, Volkslied, Jurek Becker

The soprano sings quotes from the 'Städtel-Lied' and text from Hölderlin and E. Fried. The orator recites chronicles of the holocaust in Nazi Germany and from J. Becker.All parts are demanding.

Duration: 18' 00"

Instrumentation: for saxophone and orchestra (38pic.afl).3(ca).3(bcl).3(cbn)/4.4.4.0/4perc/hp/cel/str)

Duration: 18' 00"

Instrumentation: (2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/2.2.1.0/perc/str)

From amidst noise there gradually emerges the distinct 'singing' of the instruments, with the dramatic entrance of angst in the climax (heartbeat). Right up to the end the 'singing' remains in abeyance of danger.

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone

Demanding in all respects.

Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for four clarinets

Duration: 11' 30"

Instrumentation: for Soprano, bass clarinet, viola and organ

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

Part of a joint composition: Proprium part of the Whitsunday mass by H. Holliger, H.U. Lehmann, J. Haselbach, P. Wettstein, G. Bennett and J. Wildberger.

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/perc/6.6.4.4.2)

Duration: 1' 20"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for viola solo

Partly extreme procreation of sounds (behind the bridge, scordatura of the fourth string at the end). Double flageolets and a mixture of firmly fingered tones with flageolets. There is a traditional beauty in the intonation, the play is expressive.

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for guitar solo

This piece is a reaction to the Chilean military putsch by Pinochet. The singing (partly quotes from songs of Chilean singers) is gradually stifled and trampled on by the sound of soldiers’ boots.
Glissando with glass baton and drumming of fingers on soundboard required.


Duration: 10' 00"

Profane representation

Instrumentation: for orator, soprano and orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/3perc/hp.pf/acn/cel.gtr/va(solo).12.10.5.6.4)

Texts: Peter Weiss, Günter Eich, Walter Benjamin, Stéphane Mallarmé

Text: Peter Weiss, Günter Eich, Walter Benjamin, Stéphane Mallarmé.

Duration: 20' 00"

Biblical history

Instrumentation: for orchestra (3(pic,afl,bfl).2.ca.3(bcl,cbcl).2.cbn/4.3.3.1/6perc/hp.pf/cel/12.10.8.8.6)

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for viola piano

Muted and alienated playing: flageolets from the viola and piano. Interference arises from clashing flageolets.

Duration: 12' 00"

Spatial dialogues

Instrumentation: (4.4.4.4/7.6.4.btba/5perc/hp/cel/16.14.12.10.7)

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo

Tapping on the belly and fret-board, unusual bow strokes, interference between natural flageolets, ‘unisono’ on various strings.

Duration: 7' 00"

Instrumentation: for soprano and chamber ensemble (clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, percussion and string quintet)

Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin

Lyrical soprano h-a“. Toneless play by the woodwind. Unusual bowstrokes and high natural flageolets in the deep strings.

Duration: 8' 00"

Reconnaissances in the sixteenth-tone area

Instrumentation: for string instruments and synthesizer (harpsichord, concert piano with three pedals, pianoforte, each set a sixteenth-tone apart, synthesizer Yamaha SY 99 programmed to sixteenth-tone, two violoncelli and two double-bass)

Duration: 20' 00"

Music

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Apart from the traditional playing methods, this piece also uses widely known unconventional methods.

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for contrabass flute

Duration: 5' 00"

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, percussion and keyboard

Texts: Paul Celan, Erich Fried, Friedrich Hölderlin

Text: Paul Celan, Erich Fried, Friedrich Hölderlin.

Duration: 17' 00"