Bräm Thüring
(10. 04. 1944)
Genre: Classical Music
Biography
* 10. 04. 1944 Basel.
After graduating from college Thüring Bräm was educated in piano, conducting and composition in his birth town of Basel. He also studied musicology at the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg. He lived in the USA from 1970 until 1973 where he worked as a conductor and coach at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, at the Santa Fe Summer Opera, at Aspen Music Festival and studied at the University of California in Berkeley where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in composition. He was head of the music school of the 'Musik-Akademie Basel' (Basel Academy of Music) from 1973 until 1987. Since 1987 he is director of the Lucerne Conservatory. He is active as a conductor in Switzerland and abroad.
During his years as a student the most crucial influences he received were from Anton Webern and Pierre Boulez (primarily as conductor and analyst). After visiting America he became more involved in improvisational music having been influenced by John Cage, during the mid eighties this became more structured music when he was using plain traditional material to produce new sound effects, for example in the Oratorio 'Litteri un Schattä - Lucie Ombre' or in the orchestral work 'Florestan und Eusebius'. He has received several important commissions and prizes for composition including from Pro Helvetia, the city of Basel, IMF (International Music Festival in Lucerne), Radio DRS, Danzig, BBC Singers, Edwin Fischer recognition prize, University of California and others. He has published and lectures as a guest.
After graduating from college Thüring Bräm was educated in piano, conducting and composition in his birth town of Basel. He also studied musicology at the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg. He lived in the USA from 1970 until 1973 where he worked as a conductor and coach at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, at the Santa Fe Summer Opera, at Aspen Music Festival and studied at the University of California in Berkeley where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in composition. He was head of the music school of the 'Musik-Akademie Basel' (Basel Academy of Music) from 1973 until 1987. Since 1987 he is director of the Lucerne Conservatory. He is active as a conductor in Switzerland and abroad.
During his years as a student the most crucial influences he received were from Anton Webern and Pierre Boulez (primarily as conductor and analyst). After visiting America he became more involved in improvisational music having been influenced by John Cage, during the mid eighties this became more structured music when he was using plain traditional material to produce new sound effects, for example in the Oratorio 'Litteri un Schattä - Lucie Ombre' or in the orchestral work 'Florestan und Eusebius'. He has received several important commissions and prizes for composition including from Pro Helvetia, the city of Basel, IMF (International Music Festival in Lucerne), Radio DRS, Danzig, BBC Singers, Edwin Fischer recognition prize, University of California and others. He has published and lectures as a guest.
Work list
3 Kanons (1965-2006)
Instrumentation: for two pianos
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Klangfelder (1965)
Instrumentation: for organ
Manuscript
7 Duettini (1967-2006)
Instrumentation: for 2 violins
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Chant (1967)
Instrumentation: pour clarinette seule
Manuscript
5 Duette (1967)
Instrumentation: für zwei Violinen
Manuscript
6 Miniaturen (1967-1968)
Instrumentation: for string trio
Short characteristic pieces in a transparent, countrapuntal dodecaphonic Webern style.
Duration: 5' 00"
Schichten (1968-1969)
Instrumentation: for orchestra
Manuscript
Sechs Haikai (1969)
Instrumentation: for solo Soprano, chamber choir, string trio and vibraphone
Texts: Japanische Texte
Six short Japanese three-liners. The choral part is on an advanced level but can be performed by good amateurs.
Duration: 8' 00"
"... dass es nichts Neues gibt unter der Sonne..." (1970)
Instrumentation: for Soprano, viola and bassoon
Texts: Dieter Fringeli
Four songs in the original scoring: Soprano, viola and bassoon. Text by the Basel poet Dieter Fringeli. There are more free passages in addition to the through-composed parts.
Duration: 6' 00"
Piece for a Chamber Group (1970-1971)
Passacaglia
Instrumentation: für Klavier, Harfe, Flöte, Klarinette, Horn, Viola und Violoncello
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Klavier, Harfe, Flöte, Klarinette, Horn, Viola und Violoncello
Manuscript
The Caterpillar (1971-1972)
Tonbandstück für einen Trickfilm
Manuscript
Manuscript
Es (1972-1973)
Instrumentation: Quartett für Flöten, Klarinetten, Violinen, Violoncello
Manuscript
Ancient Music (1972-1973)
Instrumentation: für Tonband
Manuscript
Flexagon (1973)
Instrumentation: für Flöte, elekrische Gitarre und Stahltrommel
Manuscript
Textures (1973)
Instrumentation: for 24 musicians
Manuscript
Fragments for a War Poem (1973)
Instrumentation: für Tonband (auch als Ballett)
Manuscript
Klage (1974)
Instrumentation: for voice and 2 percussions
Manuscript
En route (1975)
Instrumentation: for ensembles of any instrumentation
Duration: variabel
Manuscript
Indaba (1975)
Instrumentation: for recorder
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
Uhrwerk 2 (1976)
Instrumentation: for 28 drummers
Manuscript
Static Flow (1976)
Instrumentation: for oboe and piano
Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript
Uhrwerk (1976)
Instrumentation: for violin solo
A virtuoso piece notated in two systems. It is very difficult to perform and uses twenty-eight different articulations.
Duration: 6' 00"
Au temps perdu (1976)
Instrumentation: for flute and string trio
The title plays with Prousts 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. This through-composed piece requires flexibility due to improvisation-like parts. Satisfying for the flutist who plays on the background of an often noise like sliding sound carpet.
Duration: 14' 00"
Encounters (1976)
Instrumentation: for violin and violoncello (or 2 violoncelli)
Manuscript
Cat Songs / Katzenlieder (1977)
Instrumentation: for voice, children's choir, violin, 4 percussionists, xylophone, tubular bells and harp (piano)
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript
Drei Lieder (1978-1979)
Instrumentation: for mixed a-cappella choir
Texts: Lajzer Ajchenrand
These three songs, based on a text by Lajzer Ajchenrand, were composed for Eric Ericson and his chamber choir. Because of the high demands in rhythm and intonation, this piece is best suited to a very well schooled, at least semi-professional ensemble (min. sixteen solo singers or a large choir).
Duration: 9' 00"
Pianissimo (1978)
Uhrwerk 3
Instrumentation: für Klavier, 2 Schlagzeuger und Stimme oder Melodieinstrument
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Klavier, 2 Schlagzeuger und Stimme oder Melodieinstrument
Manuscript
Children Songs of the American Indian (1979)
Instrumentation: for solo soprano, vocal ensemble (SATB), oboe, viola, violoncello, and marimbaphone
Texts: Indianische Texte
The Children Songs (which received a prize from the University of California in 1973) are a kind of half scenic cantata based on Indian text.
Duration: 8' 00"
Alleluja (1979)
Instrumentation: for singing
Texts: Henri David Thoreau
Text: Henri David Thoreau.
Duration: 7' 00"
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Sieben Bagatellen (1979)
Instrumentation: for piano
These short, pregnant pieces are cloudy images from Beethoven and Webern. Precisely notated, they require certain technical enhancements such as 'cluster play'. One piece is graphically notated.
Duration: 13' 00"
Instrumentation: for clarinet or violin (or any other melodic instrument) and piano
This cycle of seven pieces encompasses mostly notated memories: a (quasi) summary of the seventies. Where one movement requires the courage to improvise, another contains a sung alternative version.
Duration: 17' 00"
Drei Psalmen (1980-1981)
Instrumentation: for mixed a-cappella choir (five groups, each with eight voices- register score ad libitum)
Texts: Bibel / Liturgie
A good amateur choir can tackle this spatial work for sub divided groups. It uses many vocal facets including sounds, screaming, speaking and singing. Text from the Old Testament.
Duration: 15' 00"
Melodies in Space (1980-1981)
Instrumentation: for 1 melody instrument
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Quiet Music I-III (1980-1981)
Instrumentation: for piano, flute, clarinet, oboe, violin and violoncello
No. III is a markedly beautiful piece to commemorate Berios 'O King'. No. I and II are confined to the piano and a melodic instrument of choice.
Duration: 8' 00"
Fünf Präludien (1982)
Instrumentation: for two flutes, two bass clarinets, trumpet and string orchestra
Duration: 12' 00"
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Sinfonietta (1982)
Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra
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Zeitlupenstücke (1983)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, violoncello and piano
A single musical idea or gesture is explored in quasi slow motion.
Duration: 17' 00"
Requiem für C.S. (1983)
Instrumentation: für Chor und Instrumente
Texts: Lajzer Ajchenrand
Manuscript
Vier Lamenti (1984-1985)
Instrumentation: for piano
Four characteristic pieces. The last of which requires (in an ideal situation) grand rubber mutes in the piano but an alternative version can be played on the keys.
Duration: 6' 00"
Die Frage nach der Zeit (1984)
Instrumentation: for organ
Duration: 8' 00"
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Les lettres de Cézanne (1984)
Instrumentation: for voice, flute and string trio
Texts: Paul Cézanne
Text: Paul Cézanne.
Duration: 12' 00"
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Abgesang (1985)
Instrumentation: for two flutes, three clarinets, bass clarinet, two horns and piano
Duration: 11' 00"
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Continuum (1985)
Instrumentation: six cellos
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript
Dances (1985)
Instrumentation: für Solocello, Marimbaphon, Cymbalom, 4 Schlagzeuger und Celloorchester
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Kantate nach Sprüchen von Angelus Silesius (1986)
Instrumentation: for soprano, mixed choir and string orchestra
Texts: Angelus Silesius
A very good amateur choir with a professional orchestral accompaniment can perform this varified piece.
Duration: 17' 00"
Spuren I & II (1986)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 3' 00"
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Lilith (1987)
Instrumentation: for singing and piano
Texts: Gerald Meyer
Text: Gerald Meyer.
Duration: 10' 00"
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Was uns betrifft (1987)
Instrumentation: 5 politische Lieder
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For the Birds (1987)
Instrumentation: for flute and bass clarinet
Requires an interest in experimentation and practice.
Duration: 8' 00"
Abend (1987)
Instrumentation: for singing and piano
Duration: 7' 00"
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Streichquartett Nr. 1 (1987-1990)
A very diversified and animated work with a large cello solo (Er-Innerung 4 1/2), which can also be played as an individual piece. A commission for the International Music Festival, Lucerne.
Duration: 17' 00"
La Plainte d'un Icare (1987-1989)
Instrumentation: for 14 instruments
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La plainte d'un Icare (1987-1989/2018/19)
Instrumentation: for 14 instruments
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5 + 5 (1988)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 2' 00"
Manuscript
Zwei Pferdestücke (1989)
Instrumentation: for piano trio
Duration: 3' 00"
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2 Versuche über einen Ikarus (1989)
Instrumentation: for piano
Two preliminary studies for the chamber orchestra work 'Plainte d'un Icare' based on a poem by Baudelaire.
Duration: 6' 00"
ARA (1989)
Instrumentation: for 6-12 flutes
Duration: variabe
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Steinbeck (1989)
Instrumentation: for piano trio
Duration: 3' 00"
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Intermedien (1989)
Instrumentation: für 2 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen
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Image (1989)
Instrumentation: for piano trio
Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript
Ombra (1990)
Instrumentation: for violin, viola and string orchestra or version for piano, violin an viola
Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
im schweigen (1990)
Instrumentation: for voice and string trio
Texts: Katharina Sallenbach
Manuscript
Er-Innerung (1990)
Instrumentation: for cello
Duration: 4' 30"
Manuscript
Three Pictures of Georgia o'Keeffe (1991)
Instrumentation: for violin and percussion
A rewarding piece for a new genre: violin and percussion (uses instruments: flexatone, vibraphone, bongos, woodblock). Based on the pictures by the American painter: Two Jimson Weeds, The Winter Road, Red Poppies.
Duration: 8' 00"
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"Im Atemhaus" (1991-1993)
Three lieder
Instrumentation: for female a-cappella choir (SSAA)
Texts: Anna Katharina von Greiffenberg
Written for the 'Vepatechor'. In addition to the through-composed Baroque text from Anna Katharina von Greiffenberg it contains a middle part without text, which evokes the title of the poem 'Im Atemhaus' by Rose Ausländer. This part (in space notation) requires flexibility in respect to rhythm and metricity.
Duration: 14' 00"
Instrumentation: for female a-cappella choir (SSAA)
Texts: Anna Katharina von Greiffenberg
Written for the 'Vepatechor'. In addition to the through-composed Baroque text from Anna Katharina von Greiffenberg it contains a middle part without text, which evokes the title of the poem 'Im Atemhaus' by Rose Ausländer. This part (in space notation) requires flexibility in respect to rhythm and metricity.
Duration: 14' 00"
Umarmt von den Grenzen (1991)
Instrumentation: for singing and piano
Texts: Werner Lutz, Gerald Meyer
Text: Werner Lutz and Gerald Meyer.
Duration: 11' 00"
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Liedzeilen (1991)
Instrumentation: for trumpet
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Perpetuum mobile (1992)
Instrumentation: for flute
Duration: 1' 10"
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Streichquartett Nr. 2 LITANIA (1992)
LITANIA
In one movement. A harmonic work in memory of Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, with a solo viola part (cadenza), which can be performed as an individual piece.
Duration: 13' 00"
In one movement. A harmonic work in memory of Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, with a solo viola part (cadenza), which can be performed as an individual piece.
Duration: 13' 00"
Antiphon 1 & 2 (1992-1993)
Instrumentation: for flute
Duration: 4' 00"
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Scherzo (1992)
Instrumentation: for flute
Duration: 1' 00"
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4 Stücke aus Krajiny Snu ("Traumlandschaften") (1992)
Instrumentation: for piano trio
The ‘Traumlandschaften’ for piano trio is in four short movements and corresponds approximately to the solo parts of the same concert for piano trio and chamber orchestra.
Duration: 7' 00"
Torrenieri (1992)
Instrumentation: for horn solo and string orchestra
This piece, written for the Lucerne Festival Strings, can be easily introduced into a 'normal' string orchestra programme. It does, however, require great solo skills from the horn player.
Duration: 6' 15"
Krajiny Snu (1992)
Instrumentation: for piano trio, chamber orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/str) and one crotale
The title 'Krajiny Snu' means 'dreamlandscape' and represents shreds of the composers associations with his work as a conductor from 1985 to 1995 in Pardubice. This work, originally dedicated to the 'Guarnieri Trio', Prague and the Pardubice Chamber Phillharmonic, enriches the category of concert for piano and orchestra.
Duration: 17' 00"
version for Piano trio: CHF 13.-
Vier neue Etüden (four new etudes) (1992-1993)
Instrumentation: for flute
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Drei apokryphe Psalmen (1993-1994)
Instrumentation: für gemischten Chor a capella, Nr. 2 mit Schlagzeug
Texts: Jos. Vital Kopp
Manuscript
Litteri un Schattä - Luci e ombre (1993-1996)
eine Art "Oratorium"
Instrumentation: für 2 Chöre, Mezzosopran, Bariton, Sprecherin und Kammerorchester
Texts: Anna Maria Bacher
das romanische Sontga Margriata-Lied, mittelalterliche lateinische, Texte zur heiligen Margarethe, alte romanische Kirchenlieder
abendfüllend
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für 2 Chöre, Mezzosopran, Bariton, Sprecherin und Kammerorchester
Texts: Anna Maria Bacher
das romanische Sontga Margriata-Lied, mittelalterliche lateinische, Texte zur heiligen Margarethe, alte romanische Kirchenlieder
abendfüllend
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Quasi notturno (1993)
Instrumentation: for bassoon solo
Requires experimentation on ones own instrument. Even single parts of the bassoon are used for playing
Duration: 6' 00"
Raum und Zeit (1993)
Instrumentation: for eight horns
A soft spatial piece for eight spatially distributed hornists.
Duration: 6' 30"
Un'altra notte (1993)
Instrumentation: for baritone
Texts: Giuseppe Ungaretti
Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti.
Duration: 12' 00"
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Zwei Dürer-Präludien (1993)
Instrumentation: for organ
Duration: 11' 00"
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Marginalien zu einem Anagramm (1993)
Instrumentation: for violin and viola
Duration: 5' 00"
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Pegasus (1994)
Instrumentation: für Chor, Stimmen, 3 Sprecher(innen) und Instrumente
Texts: Josef Vital Kopp/Thüring Bräm
Manuscript
Präludium (1994)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.3.2/timp.3perc/hp/str)
Duration: 11' 00"
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Nerval's Lobster (1994)
Instrumentation: for harpsichord solo
A serious and not particularly easy piece based on many intellectual absurdities, e.g. Wagners Tristan Chord.
Duration: 8' 00"
zwei Apokryphe Psalmen (1994)
Instrumentation: for speaking voice, clarinet, vibraphone and harp
Texts: Joseph Vital Kopp
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Praeludium für Orchester (1994)
Instrumentation: for orchestra
der Stadt Danzig und der Baltischen Philharmonie gewidmet
Duration: 10' 00"
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24 Aphorismen (1994)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, vibraphone and harp
Duration: 20' 00"
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Tombeau pour Edison Denisov (1996)
Instrumentation: for soprano saxophone, oboe, violin, violoncello and vibraphone
Duration: 2' 00"
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Piccoli Madrigali (1996)
Instrumentation: for mixed a-cappella choir
Texts: Anna Maria Bacher
The ten a-cappella songs based on the Italian version of poems by Anna Maria Bacher are derived from the oratorium 'Litteri un Schattä / Luci e ombre'. They can be performed separately. They are linear, melodic and varied in form.
Duration: 17' 00"
A Cradle Song (1996)
Instrumentation: for mixed choir (twenty four-part, six per SATB with a minimum of sixteen voices)
Texts: William Blake
A work dedicated to the BBC Singers. Blake's plain but simultaneously complex text is translated into simple musical choir language representing the 'fin de siècle' of the 20th century. The work requires particular professionalism in regard to the intonation.
Duration: 9' 00"
5 Eichendorff-Lieder (1996)
Instrumentation: for solo voice (T possibly S) and orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/ timp.2perc/str)
Texts: Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff
Written for the 1000-year anniversary of the city of Danzig. A representation of five poems by the romantic poet Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff for high voice (tenor, at all events soprano) and orchestra with transparent texture.Todeslust - Im Alter - Die Zeit geht schnell - Memento - In Danzig.
Duration: 16' 00"
Florestan und Eusebius (1997-1998)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (3.3(poss.4).3.3(poss.4)/4.2.2.0/timp.2perc.echopiano.cymbalom/hp/str)
Commissioned by the Basel Academy of Music. Variations on the choral from the 'Album für die Jugend' by Robert Schumann. This piece is relatively simple on the technical side and achieves differentiated sound effects through a spatial distribution of groups.
Duration: 16' 00"
Le Piccole Stagioni (1997)
Instrumentation: for piano trio, flute and singing voice
Texts: Anna Maria Bacher
Four seasons poems by the poet Anna Maria Bacher from Pomatt in the Italian version; short, transparent pieces.
Duration: 7' 00"
Transition (1997)
Instrumentation: for three trumpets, flugelhorn and bass trumpet
This very soft piece requires lots of pp and a few outbursts from the five trumpets.
Duration: 9' 00"
Streichquartett Nr. 3 "als Zuschauer am Rande des grossen Festes" (1997-1998)
'as an onlooker on the outskirts of a large celebration'
'As an onlooker on the outskirts of a large celebration' (therein adagio (4') for string orchestra, for the 80th birthday of Rudolf Baumgartner). Striking piece in four movements with extremely quiet and kinetically excited parts.
A version for string orchestra is also available.
Duration: 13' 00"
'As an onlooker on the outskirts of a large celebration' (therein adagio (4') for string orchestra, for the 80th birthday of Rudolf Baumgartner). Striking piece in four movements with extremely quiet and kinetically excited parts.
A version for string orchestra is also available.
Duration: 13' 00"
Fünf Adagios (1997)
Instrumentation: for cello and piano
Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript
... als Zuschauer, am Rande des grossen Festes... (1997-1998)
Instrumentation: for string orchestra (also as string quartet No. 3)
Duration: 13' 00"
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Postcards from the Past oder Six pieces for piano and violoncello (1997-2010)
Neue Version der 5 Adagios plus neu ein Presto
Instrumentation: für Violoncello und Klavier
UA: in dieser Fassung: Moskau, 20. Mai 2011, EA Deutschland: Brigitta Erichson, Festeburger Konzerte, Frankfurt a.M. 28. Okt.2012, EA: USA 2. Dez. 2012
Duration: ca. 7'
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Violoncello und Klavier
UA: in dieser Fassung: Moskau, 20. Mai 2011, EA Deutschland: Brigitta Erichson, Festeburger Konzerte, Frankfurt a.M. 28. Okt.2012, EA: USA 2. Dez. 2012
Duration: ca. 7'
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Dix Préludes: Le pas s'est éloigné - le marcheur s'est tu (1998)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Dix Préludes (1998)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Cartoons (1998)
Instrumentation: for violin and double-bass
A cycle of seven very different (not always serious) pieces, which narrate in a similar way to a picture story. It is possible to play certain parts separately.
Duration: 15' 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
Walkmühlstrasse 52
D-65195 Wiesbaden
BRD
Tel. +49 (0)611 45 0080
vertrieb@breitkopf.de
www.breitkopf.com
Fête (1998)
Instrumentation: for youth orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.1(ad lib).0/6perc/2pf4hnd)/str)
Suitable for amateurs.
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
One in two (1998)
Instrumentation: for shakuhachi and viola
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript
DIRGE (1999)
Concert
Instrumentation: for violin and brass tentet (4tpt, 4tbn, hn, tba)
Duration: 24' 00"
Instrumentation: for violin and brass tentet (4tpt, 4tbn, hn, tba)
Duration: 24' 00"
Editions BIM
case postale
CH-1674 Vuarmarens
Suisse
Tel. +41 (0)21 909 1000
Fax +41 (0)21 909 1009
jpm@editions-bim.com
www.editions-bim.com
CH-1674 Vuarmarens
Suisse
Tel. +41 (0)21 909 1000
Fax +41 (0)21 909 1009
jpm@editions-bim.com
www.editions-bim.com
A Monk's Tale (1999)
Instrumentation: for guitar solo
Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript
Prospero (2000-2001)
Homage to Verdi
Instrumentation: for band
Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for band
Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript
Ein musikalisches Skizzenblatt für Paul Klee (2001)
Instrumentation: for viola, English horn, bassoon and guitar
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Einhorn (2001-2002)
13 lieder
Instrumentation: for voice, flute and one-handed piano
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for voice, flute and one-handed piano
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Città da comporre (2002)
Instrumentation: for piccolo, violin and piano
Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript
L'orecchio di Dionisio (2002)
Instrumentation: for viola d'amore solo
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Il Gong magico (2002)
Mime opera
Instrumentation: for min. 14 voices and chamber orchestra (1.1.1.1.sx/1.1.1.1/hp.acn.vib.3perc/str)
An opera after a piece carrying the same name by Dimitri.
Duration: 74' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for min. 14 voices and chamber orchestra (1.1.1.1.sx/1.1.1.1/hp.acn.vib.3perc/str)
An opera after a piece carrying the same name by Dimitri.
Duration: 74' 00"
Manuscript
Streichquartett Nr. 4 (string quartet n° 4) (2003)
Between two worlds...
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript
Vor- und Nachspiel zu 'Medea' (2003)
Instrumentation: für klassisches Sinfonieorchester, Saxophon-Quartett, Grosse Trommel, Vibraphon, Harfe und Klavier
Duration: ca. 15'
Manuscript
Elegia (2003)
In memory of Franco Gulli
Instrumentation: for violin and piano
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for violin and piano
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
For you (2004)
3 pieces
Instrumentation: for pipa
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for pipa
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Das Tribschener Idyll (Nietzsche - Cosima - Wagner) (2004)
Instrumentation: for mezzo soprano, flute (pic), clarinet, (bcl), tuba, accordion and violin (va)
A text collage by Dieter Borchmeyer.
Duration: 30' 00"
Manuscript
"Tornate a riveder i vostri liti" (2005-2007)
Concert
Instrumentation: for violin and chamber orchestra (0.2.0.0/2.0.0.0/str)
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for violin and chamber orchestra (0.2.0.0/2.0.0.0/str)
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Lyrik "... zwischen dem Wort und dem Nichtwort..." (2005)
6 movements
Instrumentation: for 4 saxophones and 4 percussion instruments
Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for 4 saxophones and 4 percussion instruments
Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript
Singing Hands I (2005)
Quartet
Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello, marimba and pipa
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello, marimba and pipa
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Vernissage (2005)
Instrumentation: for voice
Uraufführung: Flüh/SO, Switzerland, 10. Juni 2005
Duration: ca 8'
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Singing Hands II (2005)
Quartet
Instrumentation: for violin, viola, marimba and pipa
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for violin, viola, marimba and pipa
Duration: 10' 00"
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Postcards from Switzerland (Streichquartett Nr. 5) (2005)
5 movements after Swiss folksongs
Instrumentation: for string quartet
Duration: 12' 00"
Instrumentation: for string quartet
Duration: 12' 00"
Breitkopf & Härtel
Postfach 1707
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
D-65195 Wiesbaden
Tel. +49 611 45 00 80
Ellipse I (2006)
Homage to Richard Serra
Instrumentation: for euphonium and marimbaphone
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for euphonium and marimbaphone
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
For you 2 (2006)
Instrumentation: für Pipa, Violine, Violoncello, Marimbaphon und kleines Schlagzeug, (2 Bongos, 2 Becken und Triangel)
Manuscript
Concerto (2007)
Instrumentation: for pipa and orchestra (2(pic).2.2.2/2.2.0.0/2perc/str)
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript
Mountain Call (2007)
Instrumentation: for horn solo
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
4 Stücke für Vals (2007)
"im schweigen"
Instrumentation: for pipa, violoncello and piano
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for pipa, violoncello and piano
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Übergänge (2007)
Instrumentation: für Pipa und gemischten Chor
UA: Gare du Nord Basel, 26./27. April 2008 mit Yang Jing, Pipa, und Regio-Chor Binningen/Basel
Duration: ca. 40'
Manuscript
Uebergänge / Transitions (2007)
14 lieder
Instrumentation: for mixed choir and pipa
Texts: Alanus von Lille, Ulla Hahn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Müller, Eduard Mörike, Raphael Urweider, Anna Maria Bacher)
Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for mixed choir and pipa
Texts: Alanus von Lille, Ulla Hahn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Müller, Eduard Mörike, Raphael Urweider, Anna Maria Bacher)
Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript
My Tegscht isch e Garte (2007)
Instrumentation: for one singing, speaking and playing violin
Texts: Guy Krneta
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Re-Membering Brahms (2007)
Adagio
Instrumentation: für Viola und Klarinette
für Kathrin von Cube und Clot Buchli
Duration: ca. 10'
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Viola und Klarinette
für Kathrin von Cube und Clot Buchli
Duration: ca. 10'
Manuscript
Alte spanische Volkslieder (2008)
Instrumentation: für Solostimme (Mezzosopran), 4 Violoncelli und 4st gemischten Chor
Texts: Texte: nach dem Cancioniere Popular Espagnol,hrsg. von Felipe Pedrell 1922, Bearbeitung: Thüring Bräm
UA: 2. Musiktage Valendas 2008, in den Kirchen von Valendas, Vuorz und Vals, 20'
Duration: 1. Serie 8', 2. Serie 11'
Manuscript
1942 (2008)
Instrumentation: for brass quintet (2tpt, hn, tbn, tba)
Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript
My Tägscht isch e Garte (2008)
Solostück
Instrumentation: für eine singende und sprechende Violinistin
Texts: Guy Krneta
für Noelle-Anne Darbellay
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für eine singende und sprechende Violinistin
Texts: Guy Krneta
für Noelle-Anne Darbellay
Manuscript
Albumblatt 2009 (Mountain Call No 2) (2008)
Instrumentation: for violin, horn and piano
Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript
3 Mouvements (2008-2009)
Instrumentation: for string trio
Duration: 18' 00"
Parts: CHF 25.--
Aloïse: C'est beau le rouge, vous savez... (2009-2010)
Instrumentation: Kammeroper für 3 Sängerinnen und einen Sänger und ein Instrumentalensemble (Vl/Vc, Klar. Trp, Pos, Schlagzeug, Harfe und Akkordeon)
Duration: ca. 64'
Manuscript
Wie von ferne... (Hommage à Joseph Haydn) (2009)
3 movements
Instrumentation: for baritone, viola and Baroque double bass
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for baritone, viola and Baroque double bass
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Tabor and Pipe (2009)
Instrumentation: für Klarinette und Schlagzeug (Darabukka und 2 Becken)
Duration: ca. 8'
Zeitspiegel (2010)
Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello and piano
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
La sonate derrière la lune (2011)
5 chansons noires
Instrumentation: for voice and accordion (perc/e-gtr/sousaphone/db)
Texts: Aloïse Corbaz
L'étoile du matin dans son lit terrestre si noir... - Je l'écoute chanter atala... - au lit des roses... - L'immense manteau de la nature - Miserere...
Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for voice and accordion (perc/e-gtr/sousaphone/db)
Texts: Aloïse Corbaz
L'étoile du matin dans son lit terrestre si noir... - Je l'écoute chanter atala... - au lit des roses... - L'immense manteau de la nature - Miserere...
Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
A Basic Question (2011)
Instrumentation: for trumpet and piano
Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript
Bänisegg (2011)
Instrumentation: for baryton solo
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
3 Stücke zu "Wenzel" (2011)
Instrumentation: for traverse flute and harp
Meditation - Tanz - Passacaglia.
Duration: 12' 00"
Les Adieux (2012)
Fanfare
Instrumentation: für 12 Hörner
für Jakob Hefti
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für 12 Hörner
für Jakob Hefti
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Les joues en Feu (2012)
8 scènes
Instrumentation: pour récitant et cantatrice (voix et percussion)
Texts: Maryline Desbiolles
Interventions musicales: Thüring Bräm. Commande de Brigitte Ravenel
Duration: ca. 30'
Manuscript
Instrumentation: pour récitant et cantatrice (voix et percussion)
Texts: Maryline Desbiolles
Interventions musicales: Thüring Bräm. Commande de Brigitte Ravenel
Duration: ca. 30'
Manuscript
Ich will lauschen... (2012-2013)
Instrumentation: for voice, violin and viola
Kleines Proprium Missae (2012)
Instrumentation: für Trompete, Violine und Viola
Introitus-Alleluja-Offertorium-Ite Missa est
UA: Musiktage Valendas Juli 2012, Kirchen Valendas, Pleif und Kloster Disentis
Duration: ca. 12'
Manuscript
11 Bicinien (2012)
Instrumentation: für Flöte und Klarinette
Duration: ca. 14'
Manuscript
La Cantatrice (2013-2014)
Kammeroper
Instrumentation: für Mezzosopran, Violine, Klarinette, elektr. Gitarre, Akkordeon und Schlagzeug
Duration: 60' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Mezzosopran, Violine, Klarinette, elektr. Gitarre, Akkordeon und Schlagzeug
Duration: 60' 00"
Manuscript
OGNA (2014-2015)
Instrumentation: für Hornquartett
Parts: CHF 18.--
Zwei Volkslieder fürs Engihuus in Valendas (2014-2015)
Instrumentation: für gemischten Chor a capella
Manuscript
Shapeshifting (2014)
7 Bagatellen
Instrumentation: for big orchestra
UA KKL Luzern, 29. Januar 2015
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for big orchestra
UA KKL Luzern, 29. Januar 2015
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript
6 schräge Ländler nach Franz Schubert (2015)
Instrumentation: für 4 Celli
UA: Valendas 11. Juli 2015 durch Ensemble Canticelli unter Jürg Eichenberger
Parts: CHF 20.--
Turn (2016)
Instrumentation: für Solo-Violine
Duration: ca. 6'
La Lettre (2016-2017)
Passion
Instrumentation: für zwei Singstimmen (S, MS), Akkordeon und Sprechstimme
Texts: Charlotte Salomon
Duration: ca. 40'
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für zwei Singstimmen (S, MS), Akkordeon und Sprechstimme
Texts: Charlotte Salomon
Duration: ca. 40'
Manuscript
Réflexions sur Bach (2016)
Cinq Interludes pour les sonates pour violon et clavecin de J-S-Bach
Instrumentation: für Violine und Cembalo
Duration: ca. 7'
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Violine und Cembalo
Duration: ca. 7'
Manuscript
Streichquartett Spazi I (2016)
Instrumentation: for string quartet
Manuscript
Regurdientscha (2016)
Instrumentation: für Bläserquintett
Nr.1 und 3 Bräm/ Nr.2 und 4 Casanova, arr.Bräm
Manuscript
Moments Musicaux (2016)
Instrumentation: für Harfe und Klavier
Manuscript
A Wind Blew Out of a Cloud (2016)
Hommage à E.A.Poe
Instrumentation: for harp solo
Duration: 7' 30"
Instrumentation: for harp solo
Duration: 7' 30"
Gibätt (2016)
Instrumentation: 3.Fassung für Solocello und gemischten Chor
Texts: Anna Maria Bacher
Manuscript
4 poèmes de Maryline Desbiolles (2016)
Instrumentation: pour voix et récitant
UR 18.09.2016 in La Fontaine de Jarrier (Nice) durch Brigitte Ravenel et Claude Thébert
Manuscript
Our da sumbrivas lungas... (2016)
5 Lieder nach Texten (Vallader) von Rut Plouda
Instrumentation: für ein Berufsensemble von sechs Stimmen (SSMATB)
Texts: Rut Plouda
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für ein Berufsensemble von sechs Stimmen (SSMATB)
Texts: Rut Plouda
Manuscript
Autoritratto musicale (2017)
Instrumentation: für Violine und Violoncello
als Ms, veröffentlicht im Ausstellungskatalog: Aldo Palazzolo: Imago Lucas, Comiso, 2017
Duration: 70''
Manuscript
Herbst-Triptychon (2017)
Instrumentation: für Klavier, Klarinette und Fagott
UA: 21. Juli 2018, Summer chamber music days, Kitee, Finnland, durch das Trio Mark Reding
Duration: ca. 7'
incl. Parts
Testaccio (2017)
Instrumentation: 5 Stücke für 2 Celli
Duration: ca. 9'30''
Délire (2017-2018)
Instrumentation: Szene für Klarinettensextett (Es-Klarinette, 4 Klarinetten in B und Bass-Klarinette in B)
Auftragswerk von Dan Dediu und dem Klarinettenensemble Clarion (2017-18)
Parts: CHF 30.--
Steinbruch (2018)
Instrumentation: Klaviertriosatz (Klavier, Violine, Violoncello)
Manuscript
Rupture, Opéra de chambre sacré (2019)
Instrumentation: pour récitant, voix, violon/alto, accordéon et percussion
Manuscript
Derborence (2019-2021)
Instrumentation: for Akkordeon
Duration: 7' 15"
Vergänglichkeit (2019)
Liederzyklus nach Gedichten von Johann Peter Hebel in alemannischer Sprache
Instrumentation: für Bassbariton und Hammerklavier
Texts: Johann Peter Hebel
Manuscript
Instrumentation: für Bassbariton und Hammerklavier
Texts: Johann Peter Hebel
Manuscript
Pastorale (2019)
Instrumentation: für zwei Singstimmen (S,MS, ohne Text), Klarinette und Kontrabass
UA 5.Juli 2020 Château de Nyon
Duration: ca. 2'
Manuscript
Jene Zeit, die ohne Zeit ist (2019)
Instrumentation: für Kontrafagott solo
UA: 14. Juni 2019 Bergkirche Rheinau, "Zeit ohne Zeit", 8. ars braemia Musikfestival durch Angela Bergmann
J'ai tendu les cordes (2020)
Instrumentation: für Singstimme (MS) und Klavier
Texts: Arthur Rimbaud
Duration: 1' 40"
Manuscript
Les Allusions (2020)
Suite in drei Versionen
Instrumentation: for piano solo
(a) für Cembalo, (b) für modernen Konzertflügel, (c) für Hammerklavier
Instrumentation: for piano solo
(a) für Cembalo, (b) für modernen Konzertflügel, (c) für Hammerklavier
Klaviertagebuch Januar 2021 (2021)
32 pieces
Instrumentation: for piano solo
Duration: 36' 00"
Instrumentation: for piano solo
Duration: 36' 00"
Discography
Andreas Gutzwiller - Schweizer Kompositionen für Shakuhachi (Grammont Portrait/ Musikszene Schweiz Nr. MGB CTS-M 61, 2000)
Moster, Tobias
Bräm, Thüring: One in two (1998)
Kessler, Thomas: Irasshaimase (1999)
Bennett, Gerald: Aki no kaze / Autumn Wind (2002)
Interpreters:
Schneeberger, HansheinzMoster, Tobias
Works:
Mäder, Urban: Windstriche I (1998)Bräm, Thüring: One in two (1998)
Kessler, Thomas: Irasshaimase (1999)
Bennett, Gerald: Aki no kaze / Autumn Wind (2002)
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
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