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Wettstein Peter

(15. 09. 1939)

Wettstein Peter
Wettstein Peter
Säntisstrasse 17
CH-8304 Wallisellen (ZH)
Schweiz

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Genre: Classical Music
Professional activity: Composers, Interpreters
Biography
* 15. 09. 1939.

Peter Wettstein was born in Zurich. Following completion of his 'Maturität', he studied at the University of Zurich and the Musikakademie and subsequently at the Musikhochschule Detmold. Courses in Darmstadt, Paris, Hilversum and New York supplemented his graduate studies (1961 until 1965) in the subjects violin, sound engineering and conducting. He has won numerous prizes offered by various competitions and institutions in his role as a conductor and composer.
In 1965 he was appointed a teaching position in theory and conducting at the then Musikakademie Zürich. He became the director of the vocational department of the conservatory and Musikhochschule in 1976 and was the Director of the Musikhochschule Zürich from 1999 until summer 2003. He additionally taught at the University of Zurich from 1978 until 2001.
Predominantly in the field of new-music, Wettstein's involvement with various cultural committees has resulted in multifaceted accomplishments within the Swiss music scene.
He has received various awards for his compositional, music-pedagogic and politico-cultural work. Peter Wettstein is currently engaged as a general expert at the Basel, Luzern and Zurich schools of music, manages the oldest Swiss music festival, the 'Musikwoche Braunwald', and is active involved with various politico-cultural organisations.
His catalogue of works contains ca. 80 compositions covering almost every genre from solo to chamber music through to works for orchestra and musical theatre.


Work list

Fantasie (1962-1963)

Instrumentation: for organ

Duration: 8' 00"
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Doppelrohrblatt-Trio (1963)

Instrumentation: for oboe, English horn and bassoon

Duration: 10' 00"
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Kammermusik (1964)

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet and string quartet

Duration: 12' 00"
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Gelöstes Haar (1967)
Cantata

Instrumentation: for alto and string quartet

Texts: Toyotama Tsuno (Manfred Hausmann)

Text: Toyotama Tsuno; German transmission: Manfred Hausmann.

Duration: 12' 00"
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Kammermusik (1966-1968)

Instrumentation: for oboe, viola and harpsichord

Duration: 13' 00"
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Metamorphosen (1969)

Instrumentation: for wind quintet

Duration: 12' 00"
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Gravitation (1969-1970)
Two quintet movements

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bassoon, violin, violoncello and harp

Duration: 15' 00"
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Abraxas (1970-1971)
Trio

Instrumentation: for flute, violoncello and piano

Duration: 12' 00"
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Notturno (1969-1971)

Instrumentation: for string orchestra

The names of the movements: ‘Invocazione’, ‘InterMezzo’, ‘Reazione’ indicate the compositional ideas. The string orchestra is transparent and often used in a chamber musical fashion.

Duration: 14' 00"
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Quattre Moments Musicaux (1971)

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 7' 00"
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Gitanjali (1971-1972)
Cantata

Instrumentation: for mixed choir and organ

Texts: Rabindranath Tagore (G.M. Muncker, A. Haas)

Text: Rabindranath Tagore; Translated into German by: G.M. Muncker and A. Haas.

Duration: 14' 00"
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Zwei Szenen (1973-1974)

Instrumentation: for large orchestra (pic.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn/4.3.3.1/3perc/hp.pf(cel)/str)

Duration: 15' 00"
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Sieben Miniaturen (1974)

Instrumentation: for transverse flute and harpsichord

The rigorous tone of the harpsichord and the modulatory tonal capacity of the flute were the starting points for this sound game. The individual passages proceed sometimes with and sometimes against each other.

Duration: 8' 00"
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Konzert (1974-1975)

Instrumentation: for string orchestra (min.:10.4.3.1)

Duration: 16' 00"
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Tönungen (1976)
Nonet

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

Duration: 11' 00"
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Anrufungen (1976-1977)

Instrumentation: for clarinet and organ

Invocations of a higher entity and the invocations of the partner. Whereas the invocation of the co-player produces musical reactions, the evocation of a Godly power happens in another dimension; it remains abstract and can only be experienced subjectively.

Duration: 8' 00"
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Esquisses (1976-1977)

Instrumentation: for violin solo

Duration: 6' 00"
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Festmusik (1976-1977)

Instrumentation: for two trumpets, two trombones and percussion

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Legende (1977)
Trio

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet and piano

Duration: 12' 00"
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Bellica Pax (1978)

Instrumentation: for mixed a-cappella choir

Duration: 6' 00"
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Vor- und Nachspiel (1978-1979)

Instrumentation: for organ

Duration: 7' 00"
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musica riservata (1979)

Instrumentation: for string sextet

For all who want to get out of silence to listen into silence.

Duration: 11' 00"
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Alkezir (1981)
Music

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2(2pic).2(2ca).2(2bcl).2/4.2.1.0/1perc/hp/str)

A colourful, contrasting orchestral piece in a single movement with a rich associational content which is hinted at in the ambiguous title.

Duration: 14' 00"
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Skizzen (1981)

Instrumentation: for guitar

Duration: 5' 00"
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Suono del Ceresio (1984)

Instrumentation: for large orchestra (pic.2.2(2ca).2(2Ebcl).bcl.2.cbn/4.3.2.0/3perc/hp/str)

The people of Tessin call their southern most situated lake ’Il Ceresio’, the Celtic word ‘Keresios’ (Cernunnos) means ‘the horned’ and characterises the fantastically formed see, hill and mountain landscape “…a more sentimental impression than painting….”

Duration: 13' 00"
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Pulsationen (1984)

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 6' 00"
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Fadensonnen (1984)

Instrumentation: for string trio

Based on a poem by Paul Celan: “above the grey-black wilderness.
A tree-high thought tunes in to light's pitch: there are still songs to be sung on the other side of mankind.” (Paul Celan, Tr. Michael Hamburger)


Duration: 15' 00"
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Toccata (mi-h f-re) (1984-1985)

Instrumentation: for organ

Duration: 7' 00"
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Sequenz zu "Missa in festo Pentecostes" (1985)

Instrumentation: for Soprano, clarinet, viola and organ

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

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

Duration: 9' 00"
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Aphoriphone (1982-1986)

Instrumentation: for twelve solo strings (4.3.2.2.1) and Clown ad lib

This work is broken down into twelve pieces in four groups:
Evolution - Phantom I - Phantom II
Aufgang - Tangran - Evolution
Fata morgana - Charade I - Charade II
Aufforderung... - Vision
A scenic version was developed in 1986 in close cooperation with Dimitri. A version with any other clown must be adapted in respect to the personality of that clown.


Duration: 16' 00"
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Sieben Bilder aus dem Alten Buch (1986)

Instrumentation: for piano

In cooperation with the painter Elisabeth Wettstein-Wille.

Duration: 8' 00"
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Sehnsucht (1986)
Three songs

Instrumentation: for bass-baritone and piano

Texts: Katharina Sallenbach

Based on poems by Katharina Sallenbach.

Duration: 11' 00"
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Musica concertante (1986)

Instrumentation: for oboe, violin, harpsichord and strings

As a counterpart to Bach's double concerto for oboe and violin. This piece stems from a commission by a good amateur orchestra. A colourful single-movement concerto grosso stamped with aleatoric and firmly fixed sections.

Duration: 14' 00"
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Quintatön (1986)

Instrumentation: for piano

For ‘CH-Piano’ published by Nepomuk publishers.

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Acht nostalgische madrigaletti (1986)

Instrumentation: for a-cappella choir

Texts: Mascha Kaléko

Text: 'Sprichwörter und Redensarten' by Mascha Kaleko.

Duration: 9' 00"
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Air dans l'aube (1987)

Instrumentation: for flute

Duration: 6' 00"
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Janus (1987)

Instrumentation: for string quartet

This work lives from a sonority rising from an environment of whispered tremoli and the slightest of tonal movements. Ascending to multi coloured sotto-voce effects and dialogues spoken under breath eventually falling back to the soft vibrations of the beginning. It is signed over to Janus, and so it develops around a short intermezzo, two strings whose affinity is audible but who have absolutely separate lineaments; where it comes to refined sound effects in Face I, Face II departs into melodic developments and contrapuntal associations…(NZZ)

Duration: 14' 00"

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Starowy (1987)
Trio

Instrumentation: for clarinet, altosaxophone and piano

Duration: 11' 00"
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Skizzen für Flöte und Duettino für Flöte und Gitarre (1988)

Supplement to the sketches for guitar (1981).

Duration: 5' 00"
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Canto trasognato (1988)

Instrumentation: for violoncello and piano

Duration: 12' 00"
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Elegy (1988)
Cantata

Instrumentation: for male and female voices, wind ensemble and staff music instrument (SATB-each min.4)/2fl(pic:afl).ob.ca.cl.bcl.bn/hn.tpt.tbn/1perc)

“Pictures full of poetic beauty emerge here, rooted in the original experience of the human condition. Fear and lust, cruelty and love (referring in its multi faceted ways to the process of dying) become intimately associated with words in sound and in music.”

Duration: 15' 00"
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Concerto grosso (1989)

Instrumentation: for female dancer, violinist and ensemble (fl(afl).cl/vc/pf/perc)

Duration: 15' 00"
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Arkadische Spielereien (1989)

Instrumentation: for panpipes and keyboard instrument

Duration: 6' 00"
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Sieben Märchenbilder (1989)

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and guitar

Duration: 14' 00"
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Capriccio (re-fa + es-c-h) (1990)

Instrumentation: for flute (or piccolo) and double-bass

Duration: 4' 00"
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Puzzle-Duo (1990)

Instrumentation: for two violins

For ‘CH-VIolino’ published by Nepomuk publishers.

Duration: 3' 00"-5' 00"
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Viriditas (1990)
A play on the subject of the past and future of our word

Instrumentation: for instrumental ensemble, voices (2S1A1T2B) and moving players (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/2perc/1.1.1.2.1)

This two-part mystery play was written as a commission from the Swiss Confederation for its 700th anniversary. Music and movement are intertwined, the instrumentalists are implicated in the visual handling. The texts are derived from various sources and compiled by the composer.

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Concerto violinissimo (1991-1992)

Instrumentation: for violin and orchestra (2(2pic).2.2(2bcl).2/2.2.1.0/2perc/str)

“….a fantasy full discourse between the pre-existing and the powerful tradition of the virtuoso concert. It centralises the soloist, a soloist who multiplies and finds himself in partnership with five subsidiary soloists who, from various parts of the concert hall, offer support. Even the orchestra is not the collective against which the soloist stands out - it presents itself much more as a group of individuals who act, in certain parts, even independent of the conductor….”
(NZZ, 19.3.93)


Duration: 21' 00"
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Une Liaison (1992)
Duo

Instrumentation: for clarinet in B and piano

‘Annäherungen’ and ’ Spiele’ are the names of these interconnected parts in which the gesticulatory actions and movements of the performers are important.

Duration: 12' 00"
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Rhapsodie (1992)

Instrumentation: for wind orchestra (pic.2fl.2ob.ca.Ebcl.9Bbcl.bcl.2asx.tsx.barsx.2bn.cbn/4hn.3tpt.3tbn.euph.2tba/4perc)

An attempt to produce a musicianly, joyful to play wind orchestral work using new playing techniques and unusual tone combinations.

Duration: 10' 00"
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Seifenblasen (1993)
A play

Instrumentation: for three musicians with voices, piano and staff instruments

Texts: Silvia Gillardon

A theatre like scenic presentation with musical and textual supplementation.

Duration: 13' 00"
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Kaleidos (1993)

Instrumentation: for sixteen string instruments and percussion (9.3.3.1/2perc)

Sixteen solo strings are separated into chamber music groups and arranged around the percussion ensemble. From a light relaxed transparent sound surface and rhythmically pulsating figures, there develops chordal and melodic but also harmonic coloured structures which, like coloured glass splinters in a kaleidoscope, continually produce new combinations. Single soloists and small formations are set against each other resulting in an interplay between effectively fixed and improvised segments: tensions begin to mount leading to discharges; relationships develop from contacts which then lead to consensus or dissent.

Duration: 13' 00"
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Un giro immortale (1994)
Death dance 1995

Instrumentation: for baritone, m and f orators, choir, clarinet (also piccolo, clarinet in Eb, bass clarinet), three violins, viola, two violoncelli, four-handed piano, two percussion and pantomime (ad libitum)

Texts: Dante Alighieri, Giuseppe Ungaretti

Scenic or concertante performance with demanding solo parts (baritone and clarinet), but simple choir and instrumental parts.

Duration: 20' 00"
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FÜNF PLUS DREI (1994-1995)
Octet

Instrumentation: for clarinet, horn, bassoon, two violins, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Five centrally placed string instruments are combined with three decentralised wind instruments. The numbers 5 and 3 also stand for the fifth and third intervals which constitute the characteristic cell of the piece. In a wider sense, rhythmic forms and formal organisation are similarly derived from the 5:3 relationship.

Duration: 15' 00"
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RITORNELLI (1995)

Instrumentation: for small orchestra (1(pic).1.1.1/1.1.1.1/1-2perc/pf/str)

Part of the feature-length project (KREUZENDE WEGE), of the Zurich ‘Komponistensekretariat’. The motives came from composer colleagues Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max Eugen Keller and Martin Sigrist (at least one motive from an earlier piece, one especially "invented" for this project, and one which is "borrowed" from an especially appreciated contemporary composer), forming the basic material that gives the piece its character.

Duration: 15' 00"
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Nachtstück (1996)

Instrumentation: for clarinet in B and piano

For CH-KLARINETTE of Nepomuk publishers.

Duration: 4' 00"
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(T)raummusik (1996)

Instrumentation: for three clarinets and three brass instruments (2cl-b.bcl/hn/tpt.tbn)

The three clarinettists are positioned on the concert podium; the three brass players are decentralised to the side and to the back of the concert room. The segments are to be played partly in strict coordination and partly in a looser coordination.

Duration: 10' 00"
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Begegnung (1997)

Instrumentation: from/for violoncello and large orchestra (2 (pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/4.3.3.1/str)

Convergence of a sophisticated individuum with the brutal masses, a combination of a virtuoso solo part and technically simple orchestral parts.

Duration: 9' 00"
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Das Narrenspiel (1997)

Instrumentation: for violin and piano

Thirteen tarot cards laid on 06.11.1997.

Duration: 14' 00"
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Blaue Stunde (1997-1998)

Instrumentation: for 21 solo strings (6.5.4.4.2)

'BLAUE STUNDE' (the blue hour) a time of dawn / twilight, the margin between night and day, day and night. A moment of potential metamorphosis, which can alter existential orientation and lead to increased awareness and intensified perception.

Duration: 12' 00"
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eine e-musik (1998)
Three album leaves

Instrumentation: for flute and harpsichord (alto flute)

Duration: 6' 00"
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Rotondo (1999-1999)
Ein musikalisches Patchwork oder die Kunst des Fügens

Instrumentation: for nonet (oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, viola, double-bass, accordion, piano and percussion)

A collaboration between members of the 'Komponistensekretariats Zürich' (Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max Eugen Keller, Martin Sigrist und Peter Wettstein): The score is sent back and forth between the five composers, each fills in a 50-second section before sending it on to the next.

Duration: 50' 00"

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Hesli-Musik (1999)

Instrumentation: for five clarinets and strings

Simple classical instrumental music from 'Von Kissen und Küssen in Chüesenacht'.

Duration: 5' 00"
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Alla Polacca (1999)

Instrumentation: for violin solo

Virtuoso bravura piece from 'Von Kissen und Küssen in Chüesenacht'.

Duration: 3' 00"
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Von Kissen und Küssen in Chüesenacht (1999)

Instrumentation: for four soloists, four choirs, two wind, clarinet ensemble and string orchestra

For the inauguration of the ‘Hesli-Halle’ in Küsnacht.
Hesli-Fanfare - an interlude for violin solo, flute, clarinet, trumpet and ensembles - Fanfare intervention for trumpet and wind orchestra - New sounds on old grounds for clarinet and soloists.


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Inannas Abstieg in die Unterwelt (2000)
Quintet

Instrumentation: for flute, violin, two violas and violoncello

The Sumeric myth of the moon god Inanna, who loses herself in the underworld and is born anew, stimulates combinations and scenes in the world of sound.

Duration: 11' 00"
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Pierre de Lune (2000)

Instrumentation: for saxophone and strings (asx/6.5.4.4.2)

Duration: 17' 00"
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Die Göttin (2001)

Instrumentation: for male voice and piano

Texts: Robert Walser

Based on a text by Robert Walser (from: 'Kleine Dichtungen').

Duration: 5' 00"
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Sechs Miniaturen (2001-2002)

Instrumentation: for wind quintet (fl.ob.cl.bn/hn)

Duration: 12' 00"
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Topas (2002)

Instrumentation: for farblichtfluegel

Duration: 6' 00"
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Image mysterieuse (2002-2003)
Music

Instrumentation: for large orchestra (3(pic,afl).2.ca.2(Ebcl).bcl.2.cbn/4.3.3.btba/hp/cel/4perc and a large string section)

Duration: 15' 00"
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Vier Gesänge (2003)

Instrumentation: for baritone and piano

Texts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

For Hans Adolfsen and Ruben Drole.

Duration: 8' 00"
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Bassiade (2004)

Instrumentation: for doublebass solo

For the Koeckert Competition 2005 of the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich.

Duration: 4' 00"
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Durch Raum und Zeit (2004)

Instrumentation: for solo quartet (recorder or flute, oboe, trumpet, violine), string orchestra (9 violins, 3 violas, 2 violoncelli, double bass) and harpsichord

For the Braunwalder-Musikfestwoche 2005.

Duration: 14' 00"
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Flechtwerk (2005)

Instrumentation: for three bassethornists

For the trio CLARINO.

Duration: 9' 00"
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Trio (2005)

Instrumentation: for violine, violoncello and piano

For Seung-Yeun Huh and Eckart Heiligers.

Duration: 12' 00"
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Wozu weiter? (2007)
Eight dongs

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Kurt Marti

Duration: 11' 00"
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Psalm (2008)

Instrumentation: for baritone, bass clarinet, trumpet and organ

Texts: Paul Celan

Duration: 7' 00"
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Die Glocke von San Nicolas in Valencia (2009)
Scene

Instrumentation: for speaking voice, trumpet and assisting piano (without pianist)

Texts: Hugo Loetscher

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript
Schattenaug (2010)

Instrumentation: for mixed choir and 3 clarinets

Texts: Jannis Zinniker

Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript
5 Facetten (2010)

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
Interpunctum (zum Musikalischen Opfer von J.S. Bach) (2010)

Instrumentation: for flute, violin, violoncello and organ

Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript
Ping-Pong (2011)

Instrumentation: for piano trio, trumpet and female speaker

Texts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Duration: 23' 00"
Manuscript
Zwiegetön (2012)

Instrumentation: for trumpet and piano (or organ)

Duration: 7' 00"
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Traumbilder (2013)

Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone and string quartet

Seven haikus by Peter Benary.

Duration: 15' 00"
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Mendrisch (2014)
Szene für Bariton, gemischten Chor, Büchel, Alphorn, 2 Alpophone, Hackbrett

Für den Singwochenchor der Musikwoche Braunwald 2014

Duration: 6' 00"
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Sankt Fridolins Geist (2014)

Instrumentation: für drei Elfen (Sopran-Mezzosopran-Alt), Tenorsaxophon und Cembalo

Für Ruth und Robert Jenny

Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript
Über Schmetterlinge und Wolken (2017)
für Sopran, Bariton, gemischten Chor und Streichquartett

Für Niklaus Meyer und den Glarner Madrigalchor
UA Juni 2018

Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Weit in den Klang der Nacht hinein ..... (2018)

Instrumentation: für 3 Frauenstimmen, Violine solo, Violoncello solo und kleines Streichorchester (4 Violinen, 3 Violen, 2 Violoncelli, 1 Kontrabass)


Auftrag vom Freundeskreis zu meinem 80. Geburtstag; UA September 2019

Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript
Discography
Keller - Steinbrecher: musica riservata (Grammont Portrait/ Musikszene Schweiz Nr. MGB CTS-M 85, 2003)
Interpreters:
Keller, Heinrich
Works:
Wettstein, Peter: Sieben Miniaturen (1974)
Vassena, Nadir: Formulae (1995-1997)
Mäder, Urban: en suite (1997)
Langlotz, Lukas: Facetten (1997)
Lehmann, Hans Ulrich: Minuties (1998)
Zimmerlin, Alfred: Anderer Ort (1998)
With more works of: Rudolf Kelterborn, Jia Guoping, Wang Peng
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Rotondo oder "die Kunst des Fügens" (stv/asm Nr. 16, 2002)
Works:
Bärtschi, Werner: Rotondo (1999-1999)
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Kreuzende Wege - Komponistensekretariat Zürich (Grammont Porträt Nr. CTS-M 54, 1997)
Interpreters:
Griffiths, Howard
Works:
Gasser, Ulrich: Pasticcio (1995)
Keller, Max E.: Pentalog (1995-1996)
Wettstein, Peter: Ritornelli (1995)
Sigrist, Martin: INCROCIANDO (1995-1996)
Bärtschi, Werner: Federkopf (1996)
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4 Streichquartette (Jecklin Szene Schweiz Nr. 283-2, 1992)
Interpreters:
Euler Quartett (ehemalig)
Carmina Quartett
Works:
Moser, Roland: Neigung (1969-1972)
Voegelin, Fritz: 4 Szenen für Streichquartett (1980)
Streiff, Peter: Wandelnde Gänge (1985-1987)
Wettstein, Peter: Janus (1987)
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Bibliography
Kübler, Susanne: Frequenzen 2. Vier Schweizer Komponisten. Rudolf Kelterborn, Ernst Pfiffner, Rolf Urs Ringger, Peter Wettstein, Rüffer & Rub, Zürich 2005
Kreuzende Wege (Orchesterwerke von Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max E. Keller, Martin Sigrist und Peter Wettstein), in: Katalog zum Projekt "Kreuzende Wege" des Komponistensekretariats Zürich 1996


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