Sechs Praeludien (1955-1958)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 2' 00"
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Aphorismen und Sonatinensatz (1958-1959)
Instrumentation: for violin and piano
Duration: 3' 30"
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Sonatine (1959)
Instrumentation: for violoncello and piano
Piece for an occasion, parodistic.
Duration: 2' 30"
Manuscript
Talentproben, Sechs Tänze und Kontertänze (1960/79)
Instrumentation: for small instrumental ensemble (afl.bcl/tpt.tbn/pf.org) and string quartet
Extracts from Webern's last twelve-tone series, curiously articulated; radical canon technique. Not particularly difficult technically but awkward and a little unusual. Almost traditional notation. Each extract can be performed separately.
Duration: 10' 00"
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Käfig: Septett, Quintett, Terzett (1961-1962/92)
Instrumentation: for any score (each with piano ad libitum)
Versions of considerable duration can be realised using the existing material, versions whose time / space characteristics are completely accidental. Musical grid structures are the unpredictable result. These pieces are dedicated to John Cage, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Frühe Stücke (1961-1963)
Instrumentation: for ensembles (soprano, alto flute, two clarinets, two trumpets, alto trombone, piano, harp, harpsichord, vibraphone and string trio)
Aktionen - Reaktionen - Kontraktionen - Dekontraktionen.
Duration: 21' 40"
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Instrumentation: for anything which makes a noise.
Thirteen pages each with thirty-five notations of musical and non-musical provenance. To be performed by a maximum of thirteen players who help themselves to a large 'arsenal' of percussion instruments and then let loose their prepared realisations on each other. Only the duration of play and an approximate sequence of events are discussed in advance. This work is dedicated to Erika Radermacher (my first long-time companion).
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Worte wie Omsk (1967)
A musicalised textInstrumentation: for one orator
Published in: Komponieren 1955-1988.
Duration: 24' 00"
Zytglogge Verlag
Eigerweg 16
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Auf Anhieb (1968)
ExcerciseInstrumentation: for fifteen solo strings (5.4.3.2.1)
Duration: var.
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Unter Umständen (1968)
ExcerciseInstrumentation: for ten solo speakers (4.2.3.1)
Duration: var.
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Zwanzig Situationen (1960-1969)
Pseudo compositionInstrumentation: for ten players on various sound producers
Duration: 40' 00"
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Abendfüllendes (1966-1969)
examples for optic and acoustic realisationDuration: 64' 00"
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Karo, four pieces for electronic tape (1968-1970)
Instrumentation: for one or two performers with simple electronic
Kommentar - Attrappe - Rentisse - Opposit
Duration: 32' 00"
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Nachmalig (1970-2017)
Instrumentation: für Klaviertrio
Duration: ca. 3'00''
SME/EMS
Windwerk (1970)
Instrumentation: for one electronic tape tinkerer
Duration: 18' 00"
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Handwerk (1970)
Instrumentation: for one piano player
Duration: 20' 00"
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Mundwerk (1970)
Instrumentation: for one lecturer
Published in: Das Umbiel 2008.
Duration: 22' 00"
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Raritäten für Interpreten (1959-1971/83)
Instrumentation: for any score (not necessarily musical)
Ninety one diversely cross-linked leaves for a comprehensive media performance. Any number of musicians, actors, actresses and further participants help themselves to any number of leaves and let their musical and non-musical actions, (modelled on anarchistic directness) out into the open. Dedicated to the theatrewright and long-term friend Norbert Klassen.
Duration: var.
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Kirchweih, Fünf Rückführungen: 1. Kreuze (1964-1967/72)
Instrumentation: for four instrumentalists (xylophone, flute, piano and harmonium)
Kirchweih: A feature-length multi media cycle about the perverted or lost ritual; 'Kreuze' is critical ecclesiastic music, 'Englisches Zubehoer', 'Zähler' and 'Geistliche Uebungen' are all pieces with optical, film-like, pantomime-like ceremonies, 'Umkehr' is possibly reconciliatory Easter music whose tone is advanced into the utopic using simple electronic apparatus. The five pieces should be (but not necessarily) performed in a church, each can be performed seperately. Can be realised by a well motivated amateur choir.
Duration: 6' 00"
Mannheimer Musik-Verlag GmbH
Baumkirchnerstr. 53a
D-81673 München
BRD
Kirchweih, Fünf Rückführungen: 2. Englisches Zubehoer (1965-1966/72)
Instrumentation: for objects of an ecclesiastical nature
Kirchweih: A feature-length multi media cycle about the perverted or lost ritual; 'Kreuze' is critical ecclesiastic music, 'Englisches Zubehoer', 'Zähler' and 'Geistliche Uebungen' are all pieces with optical, film-like, pantomime-like ceremonies, 'Umkehr' is possibly reconciliatory Easter music whose tone is advanced into the utopic using simple electronic apparatus. The five pieces should be (but not necessarily) performed in a church, each can be performed seperately. Can be realised by a well motivated amateur choir.
Duration: 16' 00"
Mannheimer Musik-Verlag GmbH
Baumkirchnerstr. 53a
D-81673 München
BRD
Kirchweih, Fünf Rückführungen: 3. Zähler (1966-1969/72)
Instrumentation: for figurine (slide projection)
Kirchweih: A feature-length multi media cycle about the perverted or lost ritual; 'Kreuze' is critical ecclesiastic music, 'Englisches Zubehoer', 'Zähler' and 'Geistliche Uebungen' are all pieces with optical, film-like, pantomime-like ceremonies, 'Umkehr' is possibly reconciliatory Easter music whose tone is advanced into the utopic using simple electronic apparatus. The five pieces should be (but not necessarily) performed in a church, each can be performed seperately. Can be realised by a well motivated amateur choir.
Duration: 2' 00"
Mannheimer Musik-Verlag GmbH
Baumkirchnerstr. 53a
D-81673 München
BRD
Kirchweih, Fünf Rückführungen: 4. Geistliche Uebungen (1968-1971/72)
Instrumentation: for people of both sexes
Kirchweih: A feature-length multi media cycle about the perverted or lost ritual; 'Kreuze' is critical ecclesiastic music, 'Englisches Zubehoer', 'Zähler' and 'Geistliche Uebungen' are all pieces with optical, film-like, pantomime-like ceremonies, 'Umkehr' is possibly reconciliatory Easter music whose tone is advanced into the utopic using simple electronic apparatus. The five pieces should be (but not necessarily) performed in a church, each can be performed seperately. Can be realised by a well motivated amateur choir.
Duration: 12' 00"
Mannheimer Musik-Verlag GmbH
Baumkirchnerstr. 53a
D-81673 München
BRD
Kirchweih, Fünf Rückführungen: 5. Umkehr (1969-1970/72)
Instrumentation: For an orchestra with apparatus (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.2/2vnpizz.2gtr.2vcpizz.2hp/0.2.2.2.2)
Kirchweih: A feature-length multi media cycle about the perverted or lost ritual; 'Kreuze' is critical ecclesiastic music, 'Englisches Zubehoer', 'Zähler' and 'Geistliche Uebungen' are all pieces with optical, film-like, pantomime-like ceremonies, 'Umkehr' is possibly reconciliatory Easter music whose tone is advanced into the utopic using simple electronic apparatus. The five pieces should be (but not necessarily) performed in a church, each can be performed seperately. Can be realised by a well motivated amateur choir.
Duration: 22' 00"
Mannheimer Musik-Verlag GmbH
Baumkirchnerstr. 53a
D-81673 München
BRD
Blumen (1971)
Instrumentation: for four pianos
Duration: 38' 00"
SME/EMS
Sammlung (1962-1972)
six sections for soloists- Sphere for one piano- Angle for two harmoniums- Navel for four harpsichords- Bird for three sopranos- Jacket for six clarinets- Handle for five harps
Duration: var.
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
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Bravo Trude (1972)
ConceptInstrumentation: for any instrumentation (also of a non-musical nature)
Published in: 'Komponieren' 1955-1988.
Duration: var.
Zytglogge Verlag
Eigerweg 16
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Sendung (1972)
radio programme for and against the 'Südwestfunk'
Duration: 2h 23' 00"
Manuscript
Motto (1973)
Instrumentation: for four musicians (soprano, orator, piano and large drum)
Texts: Robert Walser
Text: Robert Walser.
Duration: 0' 30''
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Muspilli I bis V (1974/08)
Instrumentation: for variable instrumentation
- Zahlen for 4 percussionists, in 3 parts
- Texte for 1 speaker, in 3 x 5 parts
- Bilder for 3 singers, in 5 parts
- Noten for 5 strings, in 5 x 7 parts
- Striche for 2 synthesizer, in 7 parts
Duration: 20' 00"
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Vier Duelle (1973-1975)
Szenische KammerstückeInstrumentation: for 2 to 5 Musicians
Duration: var.
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Senfkorn (1975)
Ecclesiastic musicInstrumentation: for singing voice (soprano) and electronic processing
Duration: 24' 00"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
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Meridian, Sechs Dauern nach Paul Celan (1973-1976/86)
Instrumentation: for large instrumental ensemble and four voices (SATB; 0.0.0.0/1.0.0.0/6gtr/2pf(eight players)/2timp /0.3.3.3.0)
Sixty minutes for thirty performers in dynamic combination, demanding the maximum of inner concentration. An unusually vigilant and deliberate virtuosity is required for each of the six monochromatic pieces: 'Atemwende', 'Sprachgitter', 'Fadensonnen', 'Schneepart', 'Niemandsrose' and 'Lichtzwang'. Each piece lasts between five and fifteen minutes and can be performed separately without need of the others. A work concerning the unspeakable concealment of fragility; a memorial piece.
Duration: 60' 00"
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Spazieren mit Robert Walser (1975-1976)
a radiophonic portrait
Duration: 35' 00"
Manuscript
Zeitgehöft (1976/96)
A conceptInstrumentation: for two pianos
Based on Paul Celan.
Duration: 8' 30"
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Mei Schatz is a Schneider (1975)
for singing voice and instrumentarium (with any instruments)
Duration: 2' 30"
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Mi Frau heisst Annegret (1977)
Instrumentation: for singing voice and instrumentarium (with any instruments)
Duration: 1' 30"
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Vier kleine Mysterien (1976-1977)
Instrumentation: for four different clarinets, piano and three different strings
- Ewiger Schnee for bcl and pf (7'10) - Wolkenloser Himmel for 2 str and pf (6'30) - Dürres Gras for 3 str and pf (4'25) - Ätzendes Brennen for 4 cl and pf (1'05)
After Rudolf Steiner.
Consistently calm, quiet piece inspired by the wisdoms offered up by the course of the year: a playback apparatus (cassette player within the piano) produces pulsations of varying tempi and intensity, to this comes sparse, partly experimentally created tonal sequences whose tempi and intensity communicate as precisely as possible with the pulsations of the cassette player. The four pieces can be performed individually or as a cycle; they are intended for highly concentrated musicians only, but do not require any particular virtuosity. Written in semi-traditional notation. The piano is partly prepared (simply) and the pianist occasionally hits a membranophone.
Duration: 19' 00"
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Zeitraum (1977)
Instrumentation: for violin, alto flute, violoncello, bass clarinet (or any other quartet instrumentation)
Quiet music that can only be accomplished when all four performers pursue the whole temporal-spatial event consciously yet completely immersed.
Intermediate level of difficulty but requires a high level of concentration; twelve almost identical strophes - simultaneously an object from twelve perspectives. Radical music dedicated to Matthias Bruppacher.
Duration: 16' 00"
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Werkraum, Sieben Zwiesprachen (1961-1978/79)
Instrumentation: for 1 to 4 performers (partly free score)
- Immer/Nimmer for four vocalists/four cembalists (8' / 3')
- Rohrertisch/Striegeltisch for four orators/four percussionists (or similar) (5' / 5')
- Ockerln/Nockerln for three partners (free score) (2' / 12')
- Entwickeltes/Verschleiertes for three trombones/two pianists (5' - 6' / 6' - 7')
- Ichts/Nichts for two partners (free score) (10' / 0')
- Lichtlein/Pfloecklein for one viola/one recorder (or similar) (7' / 7')
- Och/Noch for one soprano/one organ (4' / 9')
Duration: var.
Manuscript
Geistliche Musik (1977-1978)
Instrumentation: for orchestra / ensemble (free scoring)
- Silberlinge for orchestra (16'10)
- Kohlenfeuer for small orchestra (8'10)
- Erdbeben for ensemble (4'10)
- Wundmale for small ensemble (2'05)
Duration: 31' 30"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
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Hülle und Fülle I bis III (1978)
Instrumentation: for large, medium or small choir and trumpet, horn or trombone
Duration: var.
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Clavierübung (1971-1979/88)
für (präpariertes) Klavier
Duration: ca. 65'00'' - 75'00''
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Hölzerner Himmel: Ohrwurm, Uhrwerk, Ehrwort (1976-1979/93)
Instrumentation: for eight - thirty two strings, eight - thirty two percussionists and eight - thirty two orators
Three concept pieces for a half-theatrical performance in purely verbal notation. Merry musical fairytale pieces created for children where each piece can also be performed singularly. Barely any technical difficulties but does require carefully controlled study of the tonal procedures. A stage director takes care of all the sensibly formed optical moments.
Duration: var.
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Achtsamkeit I (1978)
ConcentrationInstrumentation: for 22 instruments in 5 ascending cadences
Duration: 5' 00"
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Achtsamkeit II (1978-1979)
MeditationInstrumentation: for 10 instruments in 11 ascending cadences
Duration: 11' 00"
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Achtsamkeit III (1979)
ContemplationInstrumentation: for 4 instruments in 23 ascending cadences
Duration: 23' 00"
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Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle (1979)
Instrumentation: for large, medium or small ensemble
Duration: var.
Manuscript
Zu tun (1979)
78 ErmunterungenDuration: var.
SME/EMS
Ein Jahreslauf, 24 Reigen durch alle Tonarten (1976-1980)
Instrumentation: for piano
Piano pieces for cult or concertante use; one piece for each half of the month. Can also be performed individually (relative to the respective date). Medium level of difficulty: the performance of the whole cycle, however, requires an excellent sense of time and persistent attentiveness. The pieces are traditional, exactly notated but with several novel suggestions, which are explained in the foreword. Work on this kind of music demands a readiness to understand the occult theories that form the basis of Rudolph Steiner's spiritual science, or serves at least to initiate this readiness.
Duration: 30' 00"-34' 00"
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Organe I und II (1980)
Instrumentation: for deep, respectively high, wind quintet
Duration: 13' 00"
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Urbilder, Sechs experimentelle Kammermusiken (1978-1981)
Instrumentation: for various small chamber music scores
Duration: 27' 00"-30' 00"
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Achtzehn Stationen (1979-1981)
Instrumentation: for two violins, viola, two violoncelli, two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons
Precisely notated chamber music containing no unusual playing techniques. The four cycles 'Langer Marsch', 'Langer Walzer', 'Kurzer Marsch', 'Kurzer Walzer', can be performed individually. Some pieces are finicky, others simple. Emotional, placative music with many allusions to the life of Rudi Dutschkes to whom the piece is dedicated.
Duration: 17' 00"
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Eine kleine Extramusik von sechs Engelchen (1981)
Instrumentation: for six instrumentalists (can also be set chorally)
Text: Gottfried Keller.
Duration: 1' 30"
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Mit Dank an Mendelssohn (1981)
Instrumentation: for singers and instruments on play-back tape
Texts: William Shakespeare
- Incidental music for a scenic performance of A Mid Summer Nights Dream.
- Radio play music for a radiophonic summary of A Mid Summer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare.
Duration: 45'00" bzw. 65'00"
Manuscript
Die vier Bücher: 1. Liederbuch (1955-1979)
Instrumentation: for one singing voice and piano
Based on Robert Walser. A total of eighty pieces, a compositional Summa in (exaggerated terms) eighty different techniques. Robert Walser is present in all of the 10 plus 12 plus 6 plus 8 cycles and also Robert Schumann in the very last of the eighty pieces. Texts have been really set to music and do not just used fro reasons of structure and motto. They have been composed up to thirteen times. This turns the word-sound relationship of the piece on its head. All eighty pieces are written in a severe style and are situated somewhere between the radically experimental and radically compositorial approaches.
Duration: 35' 00"
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Die vier Bücher: 2. Chorbuch (1966-1977)
Instrumentation: for eight singing voices (2S.2A.2T.2B)
A total of eighty pieces, a compositional Summa in (exaggerated terms) eighty different techniques. Robert Walser is present in all of the 10 plus 12 plus 6 plus 8 cycles and also Robert Schumann in the very last of the eighty pieces. Texts have been really set to music and do not just used fro reasons of structure and motto. They have been composed up to thirteen times. This turns the word-sound relationship of the piece on its head. All eighty pieces are written in a severe style and are situated somewhere between the radically experimental and radically compositorial approaches.
Duration: 18' 00"
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Die vier Bücher: 3. Zeremonienbuch (1960-1982)
Instrumentation: for one woodwind instrument
A total of eighty pieces, a compositional Summa in (exaggerated terms) eighty different techniques. Robert Walser is present in all of the 10 plus 12 plus 6 plus 8 cycles and also Robert Schumann in the very last of the eighty pieces. Texts have been really set to music and do not just used fro reasons of structure and motto. They have been composed up to thirteen times. This turns the word-sound relationship of the piece on its head. All eighty pieces are written in a severe style and are situated somewhere between the radically experimental and radically compositorial approaches.
Duration: 25' 00"
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Die vier Bücher: 4. Orchesterbuch (1974-1981)
Instrumentation: for eight woodwind and strings (2.2.2.2/2.4.6.4.2)
Based on Robert Walser. A total of eighty pieces, a compositional Summa in (exaggerated terms) eighty different techniques. Robert Walser is present in all of the 10 plus 12 plus 6 plus 8 cycles and also Robert Schumann in the very last of the eighty pieces. Texts have been really set to music and do not just used fro reasons of structure and motto. They have been composed up to thirteen times. This turns the word-sound relationship of the piece on its head. All eighty pieces are written in a severe style and are situated somewhere between the radically experimental and radically compositorial approaches.
Duration: 12' 00"
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Regenbogen (1973-1982)
Instrumentation: für 1 bis 5 Bläser
Duration: var.
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
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Faust machen (1981)
Incidental music
Instrumentation: with twenty-four instrumental timbres over all keys
Duration: 65' 00"
Manuscript
Ein Walpurgisnachtstraum (1982)
Texts: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Duration: ca. 4'00"
SME/EMS
Duplizitäten für Interpreten (1961-1983/95)
Instrumentation: for any instrumentation (also of a non-musical type)
Fifty-five leaves, each with two related texts, for multidisciplinary performances: any number of musicians, actors/actresses and further participants help themselves to any number of leaves in order to assist them in the preparation of their actions; dedicated to the actress and friend of many years Janet Haufler.
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Schriftwerke (1975-1983)
Instrumentation: four different scores
- Hohe Lieder, for singing and five - seven instruments (10')- Du, der im Versteck des Höchsten sitzt, for horn (5'-10')- Gleiche Sprüche, for two speakers and twenty two - twenty six instruments (6'-12')- O Glück ihrer, die schlichten Wegs sind, for two pianists (12')
Based on Martin Buber.
Duration: 33' 00"-44' 00"
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Vier Hahnebücher (1958-1981/84)
material for a theatre piece with a minimum of four performers
Duration: var.
Manuscript
Häresie (1983-1984)
Warm up excerciseInstrumentation: for two-hundred solo recorders (100S, 60A, 30T, 10B)
This work was inspired by Conrad Steinmann, who then undertook the organisation of the four performances in May 1984. Two hundred single voices in a large-scale process of respiration; this impressive work makes an unheard of ethereal sound and a seemingly utopian form of collective performance audible, it ends in a full minute of absolute silence. The voices are simple, are offered a certain amount of freedom and allow the player plenty of time to listen. A large and simple "clock" provides the (generous) synchronisation. One needs 10 bass, 30 tenor, 60 alto and 100 soprano recorders. The score (condensed version) is also a document for the creation of the two hundred single voices.
Duration: 21' 00"
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Friede auf Erden (1984)
Orchestral pieceInstrumentation: for fifty-five performers (3.3.3.3/0.2.1.0/5perc/2hp.pf/2gtr/8.7.8.7)
Duration: 11' 00"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
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55 Variationen (1982-1985)
Instrumentation: für Hoboe und Cembalo (oder zwei andere, verschiedene Instrumente)
After Adalbert Stifter.
Duration: 9' 00"
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72 Mutations (1986)
Instrumentation: for speaking voice
Duration: 6' 00"-72' 00"
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91 Variationen (1982-1985)
Instrumentation: for violin and piano (or two other different instruments)
After Adalbert Stifter.
Duration: 15' 00"
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Sternstunde (1985-1986)
Opera in six scenesInstrumentation: for electronic tape, slide projection, light and possibly a silent protagonist
Texts: Friedrich Hebbel
A contribution to the forgotten category of radio opera. This piece was commissioned by the Swiss Radio Association and is based on an altered interpretation of a scene fragment written by Friedrich Hebbel. A scenic presentation of this piece is possible without stretching the possibilities of a modern opera house, it employs no singing people, at best only symbolic figures are required. The theme of this opera is a world dialogue between two spiritual powers.
Duration: 60' 00"
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Friedrich Hölderlin Trilogie I: Vom Turm her (1983-1985)
Instrumentation: for voice and free instrumentation
- Die Linien des Lebens I for 2-11 performers
- Mit Unterthänigkeit for voice and accompaniment
- Die Linien des Lebens II for 2-11 performers
Duration: 3' 00"-9' 00"
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Friedrich Hölderlin Trilogie II: Mit Pindar (1984-1986)
Instrumentation: for speaker, string instruments and others
- Todeslinien for violoncello or similar (with bourdon ad lib.)
- Mit Liebenswürdigkeit for 5-7 speakers
- Lebenstänze for viola or similar (with bourdon ad lib.)
Duration: variabel
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Friedrich Hölderlin Trilogie III: Zur Wand hin (1985-1987)
Instrumentation: for percussion and free instrumentation
- Die Tänze des Todes I for 3-4 performers
- Mit Unterthänigkeit for groups of percussionists
- Die Tänze des Todes II for 3-4 performers
Duration: 6' 00"-12' 00"
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Zwölf Phantasien (1986-1987)
Instrumentation: for a few string instruments (free score)
Duration: 9' 00"
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Viel Kies (1961-1988/06)
Twelve neglected pieces in 1 - 24 sequencesInstrumentation: for 1 - 8 instruments
Brief - Biest - Fieps - Fries - Pieps - Fiest - Pieks - Bries - Fried - Grief - Kieks - Pried.
Duration: var.
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Robert Walser Trilogie I,1: Die schöne Frau von Thun (1987)
Six life-imagesInstrumentation: for three pairs of (string and/or wind) instruments
A cycle based on savage and partly lost writings; "Die schöne Frau von Thun" uses six instruments, which can be relatively freely chosen; "Tobold" is a compositional concept, formal and extremely variable in its instrumentation (the composer has arranged one version); "Das Mädchen mit den schönen Augen" is the last work before the composer's non-composing phase, maliciously simple, supposedly humorous – it is dedicated to the performer Marion Leyh.
Duration: 7' 00"
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Robert Walser Trilogie I,2: Tobold (1987-1988)
Scenes of humilityInstrumentation: for choir voices and orchestral groups
A cycle based on savage and partly lost writings; "Die schöne Frau von Thun" uses six instruments, which can be relatively freely chosen; "Tobold" is a compositional concept, formal and extremely variable in its instrumentation (the composer has arranged one version); "Das Mädchen mit den schönen Augen" is the last work before the composer's non-composing phase, maliciously simple, supposedly humorous - it is dedicated to the performer Marion Leyh.
Duration: variabel (Ausarbeitung durch den Komponisten: 10'00")
SME/EMS
Robert Walser Trilogie I,3: Das Mädchen mit den schönen Augen (1988)
Two fantasy piecesInstrumentation: for oboe and trumpet (or two other, slightly different instruments)
A cycle based on savage and partly lost writings; "Die schöne Frau von Thun" uses six instruments, which can be relatively freely chosen; "Tobold" is a compositional concept, formal and extremely variable in its instrumentation (the composer has arranged one version); "Das Mädchen mit den schönen Augen" is the last work before the composer's non-composing phase, maliciously simple, supposedly humorous - it is dedicated to the performer Marion Leyh.
Duration: 3' 00"
SME/EMS
Wüsten (1987-1988)
documentation of a music theatrical project with Marion Leyh
Duration: var.
Manuscript
Farne für Amsp (1989)
A musicalised textInstrumentation: for one speaker
Published in: Das Umbiel 2008.
Duration: 8' 00"
Verlag Die Brotsuppe
Neumarktstr. 14
CH-2502 Biel
Schweiz
Ein kleiner Extrabericht vom gekreuzigten Jesus (1991)
Instrumentation: for four vocalists (can be set chorally)
Texts: Johann Scheffler
Duration: 7' 30"
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Ja (1992)
Instrumentation: Ein Klaviertrio
Duration: 1' 30"
SME/EMS
Ja und Nein (1992-1993)
Instrumentation: for piano trio or piano quartett
Das Stück ist in allen seinen Erscheinungsformen symmetrisch.
Es muss so zart und leis wie möglich gespielt werden.
Die Streicher verwenden ausschliesslich leere Saiten oder Flageoletts; diese sollen nicht leiser klingen als die leeren Saiten, und diese nicht lauter als die Flageoletts.
Das Klavier passt sich den Klängen der Streicher genau an.
Ein senkrechter Strich bedeutet einen Schlag Pause.
Die Töne soll-en genau ausgehalten werden, so dass ein Kontinuum entsteht; es gibt auch Bindungen von einem Instrument zu einem anderen. Eine Fermate bedeutet zwei Schläge Pause
Bei einem Tempo von 1 Schlag pro Sekunde resultiert eine Spielzeit
von 1'30".
Duration: 1'30'' bzw. 0'30''
SME/EMS
1100 Studien, Acht Hefte mit verschiedenartigsten Notationen (1955-1994)
Instrumentation: free score (also non-musically)
A total of over a thousand single leaves filled with bars, notes, pictures, text and numbers. Until now it is mostly self-composed and stretches from soli to orchestral works. It also includes some non-musical material (more can be requested). This study, or better said, 'knowledge items' (so called music with its roots in art) is dedicated to friends of the composer.
Duration: var.
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
Manna (1995)
Instrumentation: for four musicians (soprano, orator, piano and large drum)
Texts: Martin Buber
Duration: 2' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Mutmassungen über Agis I und II (1995/02)
A spartanic monody resp. dialodyInstrumentation: for a high and/or a deep instrument
Duration: 4' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Robert Walser Trilogie II,1: Studje zwej (1995)
Instrumentation: for speaker or saxophone solo (et al)
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Robert Walser Trilogie II,2: Studien über den Adel (1995-1996)
Instrumentation: für vier Ausführende (Multimediales Werk)
Duration: 14' 00"
SME/EMS
Robert Walser Trilogie II,3: Studje drej (1996)
Instrumentation: for female speaker or harp solo (et al)
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Zehntausend Erscheinungen I bis VII (1997-1998)
2-50 PermutationsInstrumentation: for 50-2 people (free scores)
Duration: 4' 00"-25' 00"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
Vierzehntausend Mangelerscheinungen I bis V (1998-1999)
4-25 PermutationsInstrumentation: for 25-4 people (free score)
Duration: 8' 00"-21' 00"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
Ein Tanzpoem (1998)
Instrumentation: for free quartet instrumentation
Based on Heinrich Heine.
Duration: 10' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Ich I bis IIII (1960-1999/00)
four speech textsDuration: var.
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
Texthefte I - VIII (1960-1999)
Instrumentation: for reader or speaker
Duration: var.
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
Infinitive, sakrale und profane Handlungen mit Gegenständen (1999)
A six-hour ritualInstrumentation: for between six and sixty performers
Duration: 60h 00' 00''
aart verlag zürich
Hilfslinien (2000)
Concept for the elaboration of pieces In memorium resp. In expectationemInstrumentation: for eight high instruments (any instrumentation)
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Innere Stimme (2001)
a three-part concert etude for multiple useInstrumentation: for 1 bis 3 instruments (also microtonal)
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Trüb (2001-2017)
Instrumentation: für Klaviertrio
Duration: 3' 00"
SME/EMS
Androgyn I bis III (1997-2002)
Slogans and sonatasInstrumentation: for literary and/or musical perfomance (any instrumentation)
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Eine Idylle (2002)
Eight details (of a picture)Instrumentation: for 14 solo recorders
After Friedrich Hölderlin.
Duration: 7' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Elemente (2003)
Instrumentation: for bassoon solo (with one player and two cymbals ad lib.)
Duration: var.
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Tetralogie der Mutmassungen (2003)
RitualsInstrumentation: for 6 bis 12 performers (any instrumentation)
- Blasse Spur for 6 performers (07'37")
- Weisse Spur for 8 performers (14'28")
- Krasse Spur for 10 performers (23'35")
- Heisse Spur for 12 performers (34'58")
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36 Existenzen (36 Existences) (2003)
These pieces arose during a year accompanying the documentary film maker Urs Graf and form, after the process of their development was identified, the final part of the feature-length film. The title 'Ins Unbekannte der Musik' (into the musical unknown) carries the sub-title 'Urs Peter Schneider: 36 Existenzen' (36 Existences). This consists of 17 existences: three-part sacral dances and contredanses for five instruments in the higher register (8'30), and 19 existences: four-part profane dances and concert dances for seven instruments in the deeper register (9'30).
Duration: 18' 00"
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Eigenheiten (Peculiarities) (2003)
Examples for continuous (optic and/or acoustic) realisation - installations of indefinite durationPublished in: Susanne Muller catalogue (special edition).
Duration: var.
Edition Centre PasquArt
Seevorstadt 71-75
2502 Biel
Jericho (2000-2004)
Instrumentation: for any sources of sound
Collected concepts for various realisations with a maximum of eleven performers; a teeny-weeny 'concert tub' produced in cooperation with Tzie Elgna and Ludger von Diedrichsfeld, Dora Hermine Eybling and Margot Erdmute von Drajschenfleygh. It is to be understood as a kind of worthy comparison to the piece 'Babel'. Dedicated to the conceptualist Marion Leyh (the second partner).
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Robert Walser Trilogie III,1: Die Liebe in den leichten Worten (2003)
Two AlbumleavesInstrumentation: for fidel and gamba (or two slightly differeing instruments)
A last cycle, which mirrors the first in many ways, based closely on restructured texts by the poet. "Die Liebe in den leichten Worten" continues semantic distraction in unsophisticated seconds, deceptive and beautiful; "Kanal" is a conceptual composition, creating artificial folklore, and sentences of a piece of prosa, quasi idyllic continuation (the composer himself has created one version); "Das leichte End in Bern" is to be scored in a monochrome fashion with six identical instruments. It tells of disappearance into anonymity, of poltergeists and much more; it is dedicated to the performer Eva Fuhrer.
Duration: 5' 00"
SME/EMS
Robert Walser Trilogie III, 2: Kanal (2003-2004)
Scenes of GraceInstrumentation: for speaking voice and chamber ensemble
A last cycle, which mirrors the first in many ways, based closely on restructured texts by the poet. "Die Liebe in den leichten Worten" continues semantic distraction in unsophisticated seconds, deceptive and beautiful; "Kanal" is a conceptual composition, creating artificial folklore, and sentences of a piece of prosa, quasi idyllic continuation (the composer himself has created one version); "Das leichte End in Bern" is to be scored in a monochrome fashion with six identical instruments. It tells of disappearance into anonymity, of poltergeists and much more; it is dedicated to the performer Eva Fuhrer.
Duration: variabel (Ausarbeitung durch den Komponisten: 10'00")
SME/EMS
Das leichte End in Bern (2004)
Six Images of LifeInstrumentation: for three pairs of (plucked and/or percussion) instruments
A last cycle, which mirrors the first in many ways, based closely on restructured texts by the poet. "Die Liebe in den leichten Worten" continues semantic distraction in unsophisticated seconds, deceptive and beautiful; "Kanal" is a conceptual composition, creating artificial folklore and sentences of a piece of prosa, quasi idyllic continuation (the composer himself has created one version); "Das leichte End in Bern" is to be scored in a monochrome fashion with six identical instruments. It tells of disappearance into anonymity, of poltergeists and much more; it is dedicated to the performer Eva Fuhrer.
Duration: 9' 00"
SME/EMS
Kar I und II (2003-2004)
Ecclesiastical musicInstrumentation: for oboe/baritone oboe or clarinet/bass clarinet (1player)
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Titelseiten (2005)
ConceptsInstrumentation: for agile people
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Präsenz ohne Produkt (2005)
Concept to a cultural/political eventInstrumentation: for the event's invited public and 100 or more cultural workers
Published in: Das Umbiel 2008.
Duration: 12h 00"
Verlag Die Brotsuppe
Neumarktstr. 14
CH-2502 Biel
Schweiz
3 mal 17 Sentenzen (2005)
Text compositionInstrumentation: for one speaker
Duration: 4' 45"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
4 mal 19 Sentenzen (2005)
Text compositionInstrumentation: for one speaker
Duration: 5' 15"
Selbstverlag Urs Peter Schneider
Tessenbergstr. 45
CH-2505 Biel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)32 323 44 57
Im Anstehn (2005)
15 or more exercisesInstrumentation: for speaker solo (and ensemble ad lib.)
Duration: 10' 00"-16' 00" (mit Ensemble 32'00'')
aart verlag zürich
Ohne Umschweife (2005)
10 or more exercisesInstrumentation: for tuba player solo (and ensemble ad lib.)
Duration: 6' 00"-16' 00" (mit Ensemble 32'00'')
aart verlag zürich
Familie III (2005)
Drei Potpourris für Sprechstimmen und AbspielgeräteDuration: 43' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Fernschreiben (2006)
A compositional concept for for the prouction of small four-voice piecesInstrumentation: for one two voice and two one voice instruments
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Seitab (2006)
Instrumentation: for celesta sounds (1-6 players)
Robert Walser in memoriam.
Duration: 5' 25"
aart verlag zürich
Torte I (2007)
Sandor Veress on 1.II.07Instrumentation: for 1 x 100 singing parts (for 100 performers)
Duration: 7' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Sterntaler I und II (2007-2010)
Fairytale machineInstrumentation: for speaking voice and/or percussion trio resp. singing voice and/or stringtrio
Texts: Brüder Grimm
Duration: var.
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Peter Sauschneider Trilogie I: Zur Zahl hin (2004-2006)
Instrumentation: for melodica, flute and piano forte
- Die Teile des Tages I for melodica
- Mit Eigenhändigkeit for 2 female Flutists
- Die Teile des Tages II for piano forte
Duration: 9' 00"-15' 00"
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Peter Sauschneider Trilogie II: Mit Haydn (2005-2007)
Instrumentation: for piano, organ and various instruments
- Wesensteile für Klavier (with or without string instruments)
- Mit Hintergründigkeit for 2 x 15 instruments and paper sounds
- Tageswiegen für Orgel (with or without percussion instrument)
Duration: var.
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Peter Sauschneider Trilogie III: Vom Puls her (2006-2008)
Instrumentation: for hammond organ, bassoon and bandoneon
- Die Wiegen des Wesens I for hammond organ
- Mit Eigenhändigkeit for two bassoonists
- Die Wiegen des Wesens II for bandoneon
Duration: 12' 00"-18' 00"
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Nebennotensatz und Euphemismen (2004-2005)
Instrumentation: for oboe and ud
Duration: 11' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Acht Postludien (2005-2008)
Instrumentation: for oboe
Duration: 6' 00"
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Lilienzeit I-IIII (2008)
Chamber piece after Jakob BöhmeInstrumentation: for historical, traditional, exotic and experimental instruments (four of each)
Each of the four (almost identical) pieces presents a self-contained cyclical process "without beginning or end". Temporal and spatial characteristics are blurred, directly related to each other; the performers read the score and stand in a state of mutual dependence in only partly controllable situations full of paradoxes. The audience is presented with an intimate, quantitative and qualitative, hardly definable, continually relativising complete process.
Duration: 50' 00"
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Zwiezieler (1960-1999/08)
Instrumentation: for speaking voice
Duration: 40' 00"
SME/EMS
Torte II (2008)
Karlheinz Stockhausen on 22.VIII.08Instrumentation: for 2 x 40 percussion sounds (1-10 performers)
Duration: 5' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Torte III (2008)
For the Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern (14.IV.08)Instrumentation: for 4 x 10 toy sounds (40 performers)
Duration: 13' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Würste (2000-2008)
Punch and Judy show in collaboration with Marion LeyhInstrumentation: for 8 performers
Duration: 11' 40"
aart verlag zürich
Dies I (2008)
Unisonous music to a text by Thomas AquinasInstrumentation: for 2 x 1 individual
Duration: 1, 11... Minuten
aart verlag zürich
Dies II (2008)
Four-part music to a text from the Benediktbeuren monasteryInstrumentation: for 4 x 4 individuals
Duration: 4, 44... Minuten
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Dies III (2008)
Nine-part music to a text by Thomas of CelanoInstrumentation: for 6 x 9 individuals
Duration: 9, 99... Minuten
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Natursprache (2007-2009)
A composition concept to create a pitch seriesInstrumentation: for one or several high instruments (declamation ad lib.)
Duration: var.
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Mit Kanons auf die Tauben (2009)
1 - 10 experimental canons
Instrumentation: four-part (e.g. piano, oboe, violin, ud)
After Joseph Haydn's Ten Commandments of Art.
Duration: var.
Manuscript
Torte IIII (2009)
For the project group Neue Musik Bremen (35.X.09)Instrumentation: for 5 x 4 chinwaggers (1-4 performers)
Duration: 11' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Manieren I und II (2009-2010)
Instrumentation: for a homogeneous quintet formation
Duration: 15' 20"
aart verlag zürich
Dieselben (2009-2010)
4 piecesInstrumentation: for 1/2 tone and 1/3 tone piano
Duration: je 7' 00''
aart verlag zürich
Wanderwege durch ein Wildwuchsgebiet I bis V (2010)
Instrumentation: for 1 bis 5 (homogeneous) instruments and piano
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Rezepte (2010-2011)
1-100 Verschreibungen für 1-10 PerformendeDuration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Uraufführung (2010-2011)
A concept for you aloneInstrumentation: for 1 person
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Nachvollzug (2011)
Instrumentation: for duo
Duration: ca. 13' 00'' pro Fassung
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Mechanismen (2011)
Instrumentation: für Orgel
Nach Franz Josef Czernin
Duration: 12' 00"
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Familie IIII (2010-2012)
Drei Kontaktstellen für QuartetteDuration: 4' 30"
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Ausserhalb (2012)
25 Befindlichkeiten für drei Ausführende mit vielfältigen KlangmöglichkeitenDuration: 12' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Späte Stücke (2011-2013)
Instrumentation: für Ensembles (Tp, 2 Hn, 2 Ob, Fg, Klavier, Harfe, Cembalo, Vibraphon, Streichtrio)
Duration: 17' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Heile Welt (2011-2013)
Operette in sechzehn stillen BildernNach Texten aus verschiedenen Libretti
Duration: 61' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Amen I bis IIII (2013)
Instrumentation: für je sechzehn Instrumente
Duration: je 12' 00''
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Endliches Gelingen (2005-2014)
20 Transformationen für 1, 2, 4, 5 InstrumenteDuration: 23' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Kontroverse (2014)
Instrumentation: für fünfundzwanzig Solotraverse
Duration: ca. 14' 00''
aart verlag zürich
So Beseelte (2014)
Instrumentation: für (präpariertes) Klavier
Duration: ca. 5' 00''
SME/EMS
Schriften I bis V (1955-2015)
Texte für als mit zur MusikDer dicke Band enthält: alle Sprechtexte, Tagebuchnotizen, Kürzere Texte zu allerlei (musikalischen) Themen, alle experimentellen Texte.
Duration: var.
Verlag Die Brotsuppe
Neumarktstr. 14
CH-2502 Biel
Schweiz
Aus der Tiefe (2013-2015)
Acht Zumutungen für KlavierDuration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Ach ja (2015)
Eine dunkle KonversationDuration: 25' 00"-40' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Weisse Dunkelheit (2015)
Ein Schwanengesang für Klavier solo oder vierhändig (Rezitation ad lib.)Duration: 9' 30"-11' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Teich mit zwei Schwänen (2016)
Ein zarter Abschied für KlaviertrioDuration: 10' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Schwarze Helligkeit (2017)
Ein Schwanengesang für Klavier solo oder vierhändig (Rezitation ad lib.)Duration: 9' 00"-10' 30"
aart verlag zürich
Extrakt (2016)
Sprechtext für eine PerformanceDuration: ca. 17' 00''
SME/EMS
Wahrung (2014-2015)
Eine Elegie für Soloviola (und Ensemble ad lib.)Duration: 9' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Getrost (2015)
Duration: min. 3'00''
aart verlag zürich
Fügung (2015-2016)
Ein Opfer für grosses Orchester ohne SchlagzeugDuration: 11' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Erhört (2016)
Ein Gebet für 5 zweistimmig spielende SchlagzeugerDuration: min. 6'00''
aart verlag zürich
Rundung (2016-2017)
Ein Verzicht für Solopiano (und Ensemble ad lib.)Duration: 8' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Bedacht (2017)
Eine Studie für 1, 2, 3, 4 Singstimmen (Instrumente)Duration: min. 4'00''
aart verlag zürich
Empor (2016-2017)
Instrumentation: für 1 bis 3 Streicher mit oder ohne Klavier
Duration: ca. 6' 00''
aart verlag zürich
Leerer Schein (2017)
Instrumentation: für 6 Instrumente
Duration: 10' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Arithmomanie I und II (1991-2017/18)
Instrumentation: für Violine, Klavier, Violoncello, bzw. Klarinette, Orgel, Bassklarinette
Duration: je ca. 4' 00''
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Wettstreit der Nachtigall (2017)
Instrumentation: Eine erste und letzte Sinfonie für 84 singende, spielende, sprechende, schlagende Ausführende
Duration: ca. 17' 00''
aart verlag zürich
Drei Melodramen (2017-2018)
Instrumentation: Duration: 17' 00"
aart verlag zürich
Furien und Eilfen (2018)
variabel besetzte KammermusikInstrumentation: for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 instruments
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Vier Botschaften (2001-2019/20)
- Engelszungenreden für acht Singstimmen
- Siebenmeilensteine für einen Klaviervirtuosen
- Sonnabendsrauschen für acht Sprechstimmen
- Rauchzeichensprache für einen Mischpultvirtuosen
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Teilchenwelten (2019)
Instrumentation: for 1 to 7 quartetts
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Das Pestlied (2020)
Instrumentation: für zwei gleiche, hohe Instrumente
Duration: variabel (je nach Interpretation)
SME/EMS
24 kleine Etüden durch alle Tonarten (2020)
Instrumentation: for piano or another high instrument
Duration: var.
SME/EMS
Auf Anreiz (2020)
UebungInstrumentation: for 15 Solo-Strings (5,4,3,2,1)
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Unter Umstürzen (2020)
UebungInstrumentation: for 10 Solo-speaker (4,2,3,1)
Duration: var.
aart verlag zürich
Schneider, Urs Peter: Konzeptuelle Musik - Eine kommentierte Anthologie, aart verlag, Zürich [
Internet]
Schneider, Urs Peter: Schriften I bis V: Texte für als mit zur Musik, Verlag Die Brotsuppe Biel
Schneider, Urs Peter (Hrsg.): Ein Buch, Ensemble Neue Horizonte, Bern 1971
Schneider, Urs Peter: Ein weiches Bett für Trösterin Musica, in: Weltwoche 44 (1971)
Schneider, Urs Peter: Informationen zur Kirchweih, in: Schweizerische Musikzeitung 1 (1973), S. 8-15
Schneider, Urs Peter (Hrsg.): Noten - Musikalische Schriftbilder und ihre Ausführung, Kunsthalle, Bern 1974
Schneider, Urs Peter: Die Werke von Peter Streiff, in: Schweizerische Musikzeitung 4 (1978), S. 217-222
Schneider, Urs Peter: Ein Sommernachtstraum?, in: Kulturmagazin (September/Oktober 1981) (1981), S. 37-41
Schneider, Urs Peter: Musik im Raum - Hörübungen, Denkanstösse, in: Zwillingsphänomene der Architektur 2 (1981), S. 39-50
Schneider, Urs Peter: Musiker sein - In der Schweiz, in: Kaspar Hauser / Individualität 5 (1984), S. 99-105
Schneider, Urs Peter: Alle mich interessierende Musik ist Avantgarde, in: Kulturmagazin (September/Oktober 1986) (1986), S. 31-33
Schneider, Urs Peter: Aus den Tagebüchern, in: Zytglogge Zytig 117 (1987)
Schneider, Urs Peter: Vermittlung Neuer Musik. Zwanzig Betrachtungen, in: Der Bund (Beilage "Der kleine Bund") 18 (1988)
Schneider, Urs Peter: Komponieren 1955-1988 (Dossier Musik / Pro Helvetia), Zytglogge, Gümligen (Bern) 1989
Schneider, Urs Peter: Texte als für mit zur Musik (ohne D), in: Kaspar Hauser / Individualität 28 (1990), S. 41-55
Schneider, Urs Peter: Texte als für mit zur Musik (ohne C), in: Dissonanz 50 (1996), S. 15-17
Schneider, Urs Peter (Hrsg.): 168 Stunden Musik, Aktion, Performance, Installation (Programmheft), Neue Horizonte Bern, Bern 1998
Schneider, Urs Peter: Eigenheiten, in: Ausstellungskatalog Susanne Muller, Centre PasquArt, Biel 2003
Schneider, Urs Peter: Berichterstattung zum jüngsten Gericht. Entgegnung auf "Zersplitterung und Bewegtheit" von Andreas Fatton in "Dissonanz" Nr. 107 S. 39, in: Dissoanz 108 (2009), S. 48
Schneider, Urs Peter: Verschiedenes von Hermann Meier, in: Dissonanz 108 (2009), S. 9-12
Schneider, Urs Peter: Verschiedenes zu Hermann Meier, in: Dissonanz 108 (2009), S. 6-9
Kenneweg, Friederike: Grammont Sélection 5, in:
Dissonanz 122 (2013), S. 76-77 [
Internet]
Meyer, Thomas: Hypnoperettas. Urs Peter Schneiders Operette "Heile Welt" in Biel (Stadttheater, 19. Juni 2013), in:
Dissonanz 123 (2013), S. 44-45 [
Internet]
Brotbeck, Roman: Grammont Sélection 5. Uraufführungen aus dem Jahr 2011, in:
Kuratierung und Kommentierung der CD, Musiques Suisses, Zürich 2012
Spohr, Mathias: Urs Graf: Ins Unbekannte der Musik. Ein Musikstück entsteht. Drei Filme: Urs Peter Schneider, Jürg Frey, Annette Schmucki, in:
Dissonanz 113 (2011), S. 92-94 [
Internet]
Möller, Torsten: Sonderwege. Urs Peter Schneider im Portrait, in:
Dissonanz 112 (2010), S. 36-43 [
Internet]
Fatton, Andreas: Zersplitterung und Bewegtheit, in: Dissonanz 107 (2009), S. 39
Keller, Kjell: Für das Neue auf der Welt. Ein Gespräch in Urs Peter Schneiders Küche, in:
Dissonanz 100 (2007), S. 48-53 [
Internet]
Therre, Pit: Urs Peter Schneiders "Infinitive, ein sechzigstündiges Ritual", in: Programmheft des Theaters am Marienplatz, Krefeld 2004
Meyer, Thomas: Die Enfants terribles der Schweizer Musik. Das Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern, in:
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (März/April) (2002)
Meyer, Thomas: Das Berner Avantgardephänomen - Ein paar Stichworte zum Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern, in:
Berner Almanach 4 (2001), S. 67-80
Vinzelberg, Jacqueline: Göbeldalpen und Gratelgopen - U.P. Schneiders Infinitive, in: Magazine (2001), S. 48-52
Gartmann, Thomas: Artikel "Urs Peter Schneider", in:
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London 2000
Therre, Pit: Urs Peter Schneider wird 60, in: Programmheft des Theaters am Marienplatz (Februar 1999), Krefeld 1999
Wüthrich, Andreas: Analysen der 1100 Studien von Urs Peter Schneider, Privatdruck A. Wüthrich, Langenthal 1998
Meyer, Thomas: Aufbrechendes, ohne Hast - Das Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern, in:
Positionen 26 (1996), S. 14-17
Meyer, Thomas: Die langen Haare im Wind - Pröbeln, Botanisieren, Suchen, in:
MusikTexte 60 (1995), S. 31-42
Niemann, Matthias: Das kompositorische Werk Urs Peter Schneiders, Hochschule für Musik, Köln 1993
Barras, Vincent: L'oeuvre mise en question, in: Dissonanz 29 (1991), S. 34-35
Schädeli, Klaus: Urs Peter Schneider - Eine Einführung und ein Gespräch, in: Dissonanz 22 (1989), S. 11-15
Schönenberger, Walter: Urs Peter Schneider - Ein Gehen zu neuen Orten, in: Der Bund 35 (1989)
von Diedrichsfeld, Ludger: Lückenhaftes zu Urs Peter Schneiders Leben, in: Werkverzeichnis Urs Peter Schneider, Zürich 1988
Kläy, Walter: Spazieren mit Robert Walser, in: RadioTV 40 (1977)
Keller, Kjell: Das Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern, in: Melos 4 (1974)
Keller, Kjell: Theatralische Aspekte in der Musik von Urs Peter Schneider, in: Dissonanz 4 (1970), S. 16-18
Oehlschlägel, Reinhard: Urs Peter Schneider - Ein Schweizer Kagel, in: Neue Musikzeitung (März 1970) (1970)