Musinfo: Individuals

Streiff Peter

(05. 06. 1944)

Streiff Peter
Bernastr. 55
CH-3005 Bern (BE)
Schweiz

Tel: +41 (0)31 58 72 11

Genre: Classical Music

Professional activity: Composers, Interpreters

Biography

* 05. 06. 1944.

Peter Streiff was born in Bern. Following his education as a graphic artist he studied music at Bern Conservatory. He has been a member of the 'Ensemble Neue Horizonte' in Bern since 1969. In 1971 and for the following five years he taught children and teenagers in various departments of education. From 1973 until 1989 he taught theory, analysis and new music at Winterthur Conservatory. He has held teaching posts at Bern Conservatory and at the teacher-training college of the University of Bern since 1987.

Work list

Von Magischem (1970)

Instrumentation: für Klavier

Duration: unbestimmt
Manuscript

Von Tag zu Tag (1971)

Instrumentation: for numerous performers

Duration: var.
Manuscript

Partikel 1-7 (1970-1972)

Instrumentation: variable score for amateurs or musicians in small groups

Verbal notation. Concentrates on a single material and a single form of its action. It occurs at any rate on the background of an inconceivably still and long period of time.

Duration: 12' 00"

Hug & Co. Musikverlage

Limmatquai 28-30
CH-8001 Zürich

Drei Klavieretüden (1973)

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Nachtgedanken (1975)

Instrumentation: for electronic tape

Very dark and low sounds in a six-part movement. A piece about keeping silent.

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

Neun kleine Bässe (1975/13)

Instrumentation: für Klavier

Duration: 5' 30"
Manuscript

Six Songs (1976)

Instrumentation: for soprano, violin, violoncello, clarinet, guitar, harp and two pianos

Texts: Jean Gebser

Each piece has a different instrumentation. The syllables of the text are set to music throughout.

Duration: 10' 00"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

Melodien Bd. I (1971-1977)

Instrumentation: für Klavier

Duration: 4' 30"
Manuscript

Herbstzeichen (1975-1977)

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/1.1.0.0/timp.perc/hp/gtr/str)

Chamber music-like. Formally one of the most complex up to now, based exclusively on 24 of the 720 sixth-permutations.

Duration: 12' 00"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

Hors d'oeuvre (1977)

Instrumentation: for four or more players

Duration: var.
Manuscript

Study (1977-1978)

Instrumentation: for 3-6 identical or different string instruments

In its wider sense, a very harmonically composed piece of music. It has a strong affinity with 'Nachtgedanken'.

Duration: 6' 00"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

Duo (1980)

Inner questioning

Instrumentation: for violin and piano

A very quiet, perspicacious piece with a charming face. Dedicated to Elizabeth Grimm.

Duration: 4' 00"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

Movimento e cadenza (1980)

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder

A virtuosic piece, asymmetrical in form. Dedicated to Regula and Conrad Steinmann.

Duration: 10' 00"

SME/EMS

Postfach 7851
CH-6000 Luzern 7
Schweiz
info@musinfo.ch
www.musinfo.ch

VerBergung (1980)

Instrumentation: for viola and piano with bass clarinet

A piece stemming from a core, but with no external coherence. An unidiomatic setting for viola with an asymmetrical piano part and a concealed bass clarinet part.

Duration: 6' 30"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

5 kleine Symbole (1982)

Instrumentation: for piano (partly four-handed), flute, violin viola and violoncello (string trio)

I. For four-handed piano
II. For viola
III. For flute. IV. For piano
V for string trio
Five schematic pieces unified in a loose cycle. The pieces can be performed individually.

Duration: 20' 00"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

Piano trio (1980-1983)

Three pieces, very unique in themselves, proceed very gently and slowly.

Duration: 19' 00"

Edition Zwachen

Hebelweg 2
CH-5000 Aarau

Melodies Vol. II (1983)

Instrumentation: for bass clarinet or another reed instrument (e.g. oboe, English horn, bassoon, saxophone)

Thirty-one strophes bound in an enormous arch form. A piece with a flowing, rhythmic metre; not fast.

Duration: 13' 00"

SME/EMS

Postfach 7851
CH-6000 Luzern 7
Schweiz
info@musinfo.ch
www.musinfo.ch

Wandelnde Gänge (Wandering Gaits) (1985-1987)

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Alternating, flowing, speaking, jumping sounds. Commissioned by Elsbeth Roethlisberger and dedicated to Markus Roethlisberger.
Sponsored by the SME Lucerne.

Duration: 22' 00"
Manuscript

Zeichen und Gebärden (Signs and Gestures) (1990)

Orchestral sounds in six parts

Instrumentation: (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/timp/str)

Written for Toni Mummenthaler and the 'Bern Mediziner Orchestra'. The six parts vary in character from full orchestra tutti to delicate chamber music. Created for a very good amateur orchestra.

Duration: 10' 00"

SME/EMS

Postfach 7851
CH-6000 Luzern 7
Schweiz
info@musinfo.ch
www.musinfo.ch

Über Granit gebeugt (1991-1992)

Seven traces through spaces

Instrumentation: for instrumental ensemble (fl.ob.cl.bn.asx/hn.tbn/perc/va.vc.db)

A delicate piece which touches, crisscrosses repulses and ignores on different levels. Commissioned by 'Moments Musicaux Aarau'.

Duration: 12' 00"

SME/EMS

Postfach 7851
CH-6000 Luzern 7
Schweiz
info@musinfo.ch
www.musinfo.ch

Durchflossener Granit (Elf Kiesel) (1992-1993)

Instrumentation: for piano trio

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript

Durchflossener Granit (Elf Kiesel) (1995-2003/04)

Instrumentation: version for piano solo

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript

Depression (Nr. V aus "Durchflossener Granit") (1992-1993)

Instrumentation: for piano solo

Duration: 2' 00"
Manuscript

Getragener Granit (Solemn Granit) (1993)

Instrumentation: for voice (soprano), two gambas, three recorders and small percussion

Texts: Peter Streiff

The third 'Granite' piece, the theme of which is the relationship between form and structure. Text by Peter Streiff.

Duration: 9' 00"

Neue Blockflötenmusik

c/o Steinmann
Rychenbergstr. 56
CH-8400 Winterthur
Tel. 052 / 213 94 44

Melodien Bd. IV (Modellhaft) (1989-1990/95)

Instrumentation: for any solo instrument

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

Duett (1991-1996)

Instrumentation: for two violins or two viola da gambas

Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript

Le cimetière des fous (1995-1996)

Instrumentation: for six solo voices (2SATBarB)

Texts: Paul Eluard

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Begegnung und Träumen (1996)

Instrumentation: for piano trio

Duration: 4' 00"

Nepomuk Musik Verlag

c/o Breitkopf & Härtel Musikverlag
Walkmühlstrasse 52
D-65195 Wiesbaden
BRD
Tel. +49 (0)611 45 0080
vertrieb@breitkopf.de
www.breitkopf.com

Der Klang der Analyse I, II, III (In den Klangmittelpunkt hineingeschaut) (1996)

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double-bass

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

Der Klang der Analyse IV (Auf den Spuren der Dissonanz) (1996)

Instrumentation: for string trio

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

Der Klang der Analyse V (Mittagsruh - statistisch gehört) (1996)

Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano and piano

Texts: Joseph von Eichendorff

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

Konzept I - V (1994-1997)

Instrumentation: for variable instrumentation

Duration: var.
Manuscript

Zwiegespräch (1997)

Instrumentation: for basson and violoncello (or two deep instruments)

Duration: 2' 00"
Manuscript

Berührung (1998)

Instrumentation: for guitar solo

Duration: 2' 00"
Manuscript

Motto (1998)

Instrumentation: for piano and large drum

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

Rencontres - questions, paroles, écoutes (1995-1999)

Instrumentation: for horn and violin

Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript

Handwerk - Hörwerk (1999)

Instrumentation: for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart

Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Über Licht geneigtes Ohr (1999)

Instrumentation: for large organ

Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Machaut trifft Eluard am Sepikfluss (Der Gesang der Gespräche in fremder Umgebung) (1995-2000)

Instrumentation: for numerous ensembles

Text: Paul Eluard.

Manuscript

Klänge im Alltag (1995-2000)

Instrumentation: for electronic tape

Duration: 44' 00"
Manuscript

Le mot immergé (1995-2000)

Instrumentation: for two viola da gambas and arch lute

Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript

Fünf Zeichen (2000)

Instrumentation: for recorder trio

Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript

Le Non-Dit (2000-2001)

Instrumentation: for 5 performers (bl-fl, vn, db, gtr, perc)

Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript

Zwiesprache (2003)

Instrumentation: for 2 players (variable)

Duration: variabel
Manuscript

Six Passages (1989-2004)

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

Place de Tübingen (2004)

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, accordion and small percussion

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Solo (2005)

Instrumentation: for violin (surrounded by sounding activities)

Duration: 23' 00"
Manuscript

Mischfarben am Klangrand (2005)

Instrumentation: für viola da gamba solo

Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript

Vier neue Partikel (2007)

Instrumentation: for 24 recorders

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Vier klingende Handlungen (2007)

Instrumentation: for four players of any objects

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

Modell zur Gewichtsverlagerung (2007)

Instrumentation: für Klavier

Duration: 3' 30"
Manuscript

Ohrspuren am Drittelberg (2007-2008)

Instrumentation: for 2 pianos (third-tone and half-tone)

Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript

Zeitstrahl (2009-2010)

Instrumentation: for aulos

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Nur allein für deine Ohren (2010-2011)

Moser, Roland: Neigung (1969-1972)
Streiff, Peter: Wandelnde Gänge (1985-1987)
Voegelin, Fritz: 4 Szenen für Streichquartett (1980)
Wettstein, Peter: Janus (1987)

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Bibliography

Schneider, Urs Peter: Die Werke von Peter Streiff, in: Schweizerische Musikzeitung 4 (1978), S. 217-222

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Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern

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