Cantata

Instrumentation: for four soloists, mixed choir and large orchestra

Texts: Paul Eluard

After the poems by Paul Eluard.
The poems 'Liberté', 'La victoire de Guernica' and 'Avis' are rooted in the anti-fascism of the 1930's and 40's. Fenigstein also discovered the contemporary value of these pieces. He composed the cantata as a reaction to the Cold War era.

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for string quartet (2vn.va.vc)

La paix au Vietnam! A French trauma. This work is dedicated to H(enri) M(artin), a Frenchman who refused to join the army, campaigned against the dirty Indo-china colonial war and paid with five years imprisonment.

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for violin, viola and violoncello

I. Andante
II. Tempo di Minuetto
III. Rondeau

Defiance and hope (Ernst Bloch). After the betrayed post-war hopes of the Cold War.

Duration: 18' 00"

Instrumentation: for voice and piano

Texts: Max Schmid

Musical concept by Max Schmid; music by Victey Forain (pseudonym for Victor Fenigstein).
Social parody.

Duration: 20' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and harpsichord

Texts: Max Schmid

Incidental music which now goes by the name of 'Cembalo Suite'.

Duration: 16' 00"
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Instrumentation: for solo voice, fl, cl, bn, tpt, smalldm, str

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano

I. Allegro
II. Marc Chagall (Impressions)
III. Presto

Duration: 7' 00"

Instrumentation: temple block, crotales, snare drum, chinese cymbals, 2 tambourines, claves, bells, 6 tom toms, brush, 2 bass drums, 5 timp, 3 wood blocks, triangle, 2 tam tams, 3 turkish cymbals, little bells, 3 bongos, marimba, 3 congas, vibraphone

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute (or oboe or clarinet), violoncello and piano

I. Molto teneramente
II. Furtivamente
III. Allegramente burlesco
IV. Molto grave
V. non espressivo, molto uguale
VII. Molto semplice

Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano

Caricatural depiction of a contemporary.

Duration: 5' 00"
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Theatre and ballet music

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2(2pic).2(ca).2.2/2.2.2.0/timp.perc/hp.hpd/str)

Seven movements.

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for solo violoncello, mezzo-soprano and large orchestra (2(2pic).2.2(2bcl).2.4sx(ad lib.)/2.2.2.0/4perc/pf.hpd/str)

Concert and ballet trilogy, three parts, twelve movements.
Developed under the influence of the collection of poems 'Resoconti' (reports) by Arturo Fornaro (German by Susi Bürdeke) and the Belgian pit disaster in Marcinelle (1956).

Duration: 55' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano and orchestra (1.2.2.2/2.1.1.0/timp/str)

Dance of the West-African blacks.
Became, in 1970, the third event from 'Three events for piano and classical orchestra'.

Seven songs

Instrumentation: for medium voice and orchestra (2(pic).2(ca.2(bcl.2/2.1.3.1/3perc/hp/str)

Texts: I-V, VII Hermann Hesse VI R. M. Rilke

I. Über die Felder
II. Berceuse
III. Der Strassenkehrer
IV. Im Nebel
V. Die Blutbuche
VI. Zeilen aus "Stimme eines jungen Bruders"
VII. Zeilen aus "Entschluss"

Duration: 20' 00"

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo

Duration: 3' 30"
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Instrumentation: for piano solo and orchestra (1.2.2.2/2.1.1.0/timp/str)

I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante con moto
III. Vivace (The Friendship-Ostinato)

An reduction for two pianos is also available.

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for four-handed piano

Texts: J. W. Goethe

Duration: 12' 00"
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Instrumentation: for flute and harp

Duration: 9' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano

I. A la mémoire d'un homme vrai (Salvador Allende) 1973
II. La fille aux grands yeux (1963)
III. Le clown (Scherzino) 1968

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute and a few friends (2hn, 2tpt, tbn, btba, va, vc, 2perc)

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for violins (up to four and more) and violoncelli (up to four and more)

I. Die Feuerwehrleute ...
II. ... bewundern die Rose ...
III. ... die sehr dornenreich ist ...
IV. ... und einem sehr seriösen Stromer gehört ...
V. ... welcher auf einer nikotinfreien Tabakwolke schwebend...das Paradies erreicht.

Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute (or soprano saxophone and alto saxophone) and piano

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute, violoncello and small drum (available in a version for flute, guitar and percussion)

I. A mhic jain ... (Scotch)
II. From Luxembourg ...
III. Crézio de fairé (Ardèche, France)
IV. French mood
V. Swiss sound
VI. Jain Shmoltaich

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo

I. Piccolo Prestigiatore
II. Sogno
III. Funambolo
IV. Rompiscatole

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute solo

I. Initial Proposal
II. Second Proposal
III. Third Proposal
IV. Last Proposal
V. The End

Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for violoncello and piano

Duration: 6' 00"

Instrumentation: for string orchestra (4.4.3.2.1) or multiples

Duration: 10' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: each ca. 3'30"

Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano, speaker and large orchestra (3(pic).2.2(bcl).3/4.4(small tpt).cn.3.1/timp.6perc/hp.cel.pf/str)

Texts: Peter Weiss, John Milton (in der dtsch. Übersetzung von Hans Heinrich Meier), die UNICEF, Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Fenigstein

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for double-bass and string orchestra (or piano)

I. Espiègle
II. Gravement
III. Inexorablement
String orchestra: 3.4.2.2.1 or numerous alternative versions for string quartet, saxophone quartet, clarinet quartet or for the following solo instruments accompanied by string orchestra or piano: violin, viola, violoncello, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone or percussion.
This piece was originally entitled "Trois esquisses juives" but this was

Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for solo tpt; 2,2,2,2,1

Duration: 15' 00"

Berlock dances

Instrumentation: for clarinet quartet

I. Thibaut von Vallormes
II. Guillemette
III. Denise
IV. Tante Angelika
V. Paris (homage to J.-Ph. Rameau)
VI. Quoneschi

After the novel 'Die Berlocken' from the 'Sinngedicht' by Gottfried Keller.

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for four-handed piano

Methodical piano pieces for the beginner.

Instrumentation: for large orchestra (1.2.2.ca.2(small cl).bcl.2.cbn/2.1.2.1/timp.4perc/hp.cel.pf/str)

I. Thibaut von Vallormes
II. Guillemette
III. Denise
IV. Tante Angelika
V. Paris (homage to J.-Ph. Rameau)
VI. Quoneschi

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone and piano

I. Memento le 12. XI. 1977 à Pretoria
II. Epitaphe pour tous les "St. B." (Steve Biko)

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for string quartet (2vn.va.vc)

Duration: 9' 00"
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Instrumentation: for flute, marimba and piano

Duration: 7' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice and piano

Texts: Arthur Rimbaud

Duration: 5' 00"
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Instrumentation: for voices and orchestra (1.1.1.asx.1/1.1.1.0/timp.2perc/pf.acn/gtr.bango)

Texts: Bertolt Brecht

Literal musicalisation of a novel, true to the last comma.

Johanna Dark: alto
Pierpont Mauler: tenor-baritone
Cridle: tenor
Graham: bass
Lennox: baritone
Meyers: tenor
Slift: bass-baritone
Frau Luckerniddle: mezzo-soprano
Gloomb: tenor
ein Arbeiter: tenor
Paulus Snyder: tenor-baritone
Martha: soprano
Jackson: tenor
Mulberry: bass
Foreman: tenor
Bloke: tenor-baritone
1. Labour leader: bass
2. Labour leader: tenor
A detective: tenor


Duration: 5h 00"
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Instrumentation: for voice with and without instrumental accompaniment (various instrumentations)

Texts: Shakespeare

A singspiel (=English opera) in five acts for the opera stage (or alternating public settings).

Duration: 9h 00"
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Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano and several instruments (fl, bn, cornet à pistons, tbn, vn, va, db, per)

Texts: Egon Erwin Kisch

'Singspiel' (German equivalent of the English opera) or radio play. Literal musicalisation of a novel, true to the last comma.

Journalist/son: baritone
The mother: mezzo-soprano

Duration: 35' 00"

Instrumentation: for oboe or soprano saxophone and string orchestra with three violas

I. Grave - Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Molto leggero

Duration: 20' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute (or altosaxophone) an piano

Duration: 6' 00"

Instrumentation: for flute (or violine or alto saxophone) and string orchestra (4.4.4.2.1)

I. Fragment of a "Ibrahim Selmon & Company-Memorial"
II. "Schaggele, sag scheen gräzi"

Reduction for piano also available.

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for voice without accompaniment

Texts: Bertolt Brecht, John Willet

English version after the translation by John Willet (N° 4 Ralph Manheim).

Duration: 30' 00"
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Instrumentation: for one male and one female singer with piano

Texts: Bertolt Brecht

Duration: 12' 00"
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Instrumentation: for instrumental ensemble

Duration: 25' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano

for dreaming, sweating, listening, learning, laughing, behaving "ill-mannered" and playing with the piano, composed by Victor Fenigstein for all his actual and, who knows, future friends.

Duration: 65' 00"
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Instrumentation: for sixteen strings (9vn.3va.3vc.db)

Duration: 16' 00"
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Instrumentation: for piano (for melody seven sopranos or tenors)

Texts: Goethe

Duration: 45' 00"
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Suite

Instrumentation: for harpsichord

Texts: Max Schmid

In eleven movements, three of which are sung with cembalo accompaniment (with texts by Max Schmid).

Duration: 12' 00"
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Instrumentation: for flute and five strings (2vn.va.vc.db) or a multiple of five

Duration: 9' 00"
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