Instrumentation: for pipa and string quartett

CHF: 18.00

Duration: 12' 00"-13' 00"

CHF: 20.70

Instrumentation: for string quartet with bass clarinet

Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 24.60

A sound world, oscillating between expressivity and absolute non-expressivity, is created from a simple initial motive.
First performed by the 'Ensemble Opera Nova' in Zurich, 04.12.95.


Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Four movements. Because of the variety and the density of its articulation this piece is technically demanding.

Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 23.30

Slightly scenic. In the third sketch all four play together on the cello.

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Rhythmic superimpositions with simultaneous sonorous differentiation characterise the first and fourth movements. Movements two and three have song-like melodies, in which the second is slow and the third fast and very short (30").

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 45.00

Instrumentation: for singing voice and strings (or string quartet)

Texts: Peter Weibel

The autumn atmosphere becomes music, as delicate as poems by Weibel. Relatively simple to perform. An appeal to the musicality of interpreters...

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for string quartet and electronic (ad libitum)

This piece expounds on the life development of the soul. The acoustics of the strings resonate in balance with our own heartstrings, while electronic sounds reflect our environment and its influence over us.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 26.70

An assemblage of four independent compositions, a discourse, as if the term "string quartet" also contained a whole.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for clarinet, string quartet, orator and scenery

Four strophes with extremely differentiated parts, based on the principles of homoeopathy. For Joseph Beuys.

Duration: 10' 00"-15' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Two movements

Instrumentation: for string quartet

First movement intensive, passionate as an "... ever turning circle", but with some clearly defined cuts. The second movement is very slow and steady, utmost strain in the ppp.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 26.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Large-scale string quartet, which opens a discourse on the African way of making music, be it vocally or instrumentally. This piece is based on rituals still alive in Togo today. 'Fada' is Togolian and means 'Father'. Fada is clergyman Karl Rohrbach, who has offered his exemplary services for development aid in Togo for more than twenty years.
The strings also play pedal drums, rattles and blow a whistle. The third passage is to be performed with live electronic.


Duration: 54' 00"

CHF: 52.70

This piece is deeply imbued with my nostalgia for China.
I. I have chosen to base the whole movement on harmonics, inspired by the Taoist aesthetic precept valuing the search for "emptiness".
II. In this movement the musicians do not use the bow instead all play with plectrums.
III. Fourths and fifths dominate these melodies, underlying the entire melancholic movement.
IV. The movement starts pianissimo with micro-intervals hit on the key with the left-hand fingers, and is gradually amplified with the development of the musical material, reaching a climax that ends the piece.


Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 27.00

In diesem Stück wird kein einziger Ton "normal" gespielt, dafür finden sich darin Flageolettöne, Pizzicati, Ponticello-Töne und anderes mehr.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 10.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet and horn quartet

Four horns stand face on with a string quartet. These two close and self-contained sounding groups are led into a kind of duet. It begins with the construction of two sounds before developing into a back and forth oscillation between the two sounding groups. There follows a mutual attempt at tonal alignment and then fine variations where the groups enter an area of wavering tones. Re-colouring moments of the horizontal figurations or a hocket-like interplay between the two parties arises. The themetization of the instrument-specific base elements, the fifths tuning of the strings and the natural spectrum of the horn become the harmonic culture medium for the whole piece.

Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 44.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 13.20

This is a work of singular immediacy and of a high level of difficulty but without any special experimental notation. It is inspired by the quartet op. 18 n°3 from Beethoven which is quoted repetitively. The two violins and the viola play standing and move around the scene during the middle of the work.
The title is a quotation by Aragon.


Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 36.00

Dance pieces in which the performers play and dance simultaneously.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 29.30

Instrumentation: for clarinet and string quartet

Version for clarinet quartet.

Duration: 10' 00"-15' 00"

CHF: 14.70

A Christmas carol (first version).

Instrumentation: for choir and organ, for choir with flute, triangle and string quartet (string ensemble)

Texts: Maria Niederberger

Choir is one - two part, four strophes and in a traditional tonal style. German text by M. Niederberger.


Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Variation

Instrumentation: for Er hu (Chinese violin) and string quartet

'Petit Chou' is a Chinese folk song telling the sad history of a little girl who carries this name. This song is composed of six bars with each one forming the object of a variation. The complete theme is only apparent at the end of the piece.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Allegro ma non troppo - Scherzo - Elegie - Rondo.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 32.40

für Streichquartett

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 25.20

From my point of view, the audio-visual facilities can coincide. The writing of this piece has been directly influenced by the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting (as well as its tools).

Duration: 24' 00"

CHF: 30.00

Instrumentation: for pipa (Chinese lute) and string quartet

The musical material is based primarily on the superposition of the intervals of fourths, second major and fifth, like the tuning of the pipa in A, D, E, A. The string quartet imitates the pipa in its play and thus creates an ambiance that intermingles two types of instruments.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for wind quintet and string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for five strings (2vn.va.vc.db) and tansverse flute

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 37.20

Instrumentation: for string quartet and speaker

Texts: M. Vänçi Stirnemann

Based on texts by M. Vänçi Stirnemann.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 25.20

Instrumentation: for string quartet

This piece will most probably become part of a cycle with the planned multipart work already being hinted at by the title. Furthermore it suggests musical energy, for all the complexity of its structure the work is also (particularly from the standpoint of the listener) expressional music, a music that finds its way outwardly with powerful manifestation.
This piece is technically and expressively very demanding for interpreters.

Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 19.30

Parergon 12, Nr. 34, Musikwerknummer 510

Instrumentation: Solo-Bariton, Sopran, 2. Bariton, el. Gitarre, Klavier, Streicher, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 23"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 26.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 25.80

Instrumentation: for recorder quartet, string quartet, harpsichord and singing voice

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Ergon 16

Instrumentation: for string quartet

In an enveloping form all phrases and their constituent parts in the micro-parametric area of the calculation of a musical grammar are based on an anolog form of micro-harmony and micro-rhythm in relation to the other parameters; at the same time there is reference to Walter Benjamin's definition of the "capability of fantasy" as the "gift to interpolate infinitely small things".

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for flute and string quartet

This piece is inspired by 'Sizhu' (silk and bamboo). 'Sizhu' is a traditional Chinese musical form used popularly in Central-East and Southern China. The silk bamboo ensemble consists of "soft" instruments with si silk strings (pipa, erhu, zheng) and zhu bamboo instruments (bamboo flutes, dizi). In this work the composer tries to integrate the ideas of traditional Chinese music with modern Western composition techniques. The silk is soft - 'Yin' (feminine): pianissimo and lento. The bamboo is hard - 'Yang' (masculine): fortissimo and allegro. Although the instruments, the musicians, the way of composing and time have all been transformed the spirit of the music and the Chinese emphasis of the musical language remains unchanged.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: for String Quartet

"Das Streichquartett wurde in Gegenüberstellung zu 26 Steinskulpturen erarbeitet. Vier Sätze beziehen sich auf vier Serien von Steinskulpturen wovon jede Serie 6 bis 7 Steine umfasst. Jeder Satz wird einem zeitlichen Verlaufs-Typus gewidmet und dauert mind. 3 Minuten, Gesamtdauer 14 Minuten. Fokus der Arbeit ist das Visualisieren von vier unterschiedlichen Zeitverläufen: zielgerichtet, statisch, ohne Ziel, fragmentarisch. Die Verlaufstypen wurden mehrfach in meinen Werken (seit 2012) musikalisch formuliert. In diesem Werk wurden die musikalischen Zeitverläufe erstmals im visuellen Bereich erprobt - wortwörtlich in Stein gemeisselt.

Der erste Satz/Serie widmet sich der Zielorientierung. Kleinräumiges, kantiges entwickelt sich zu grossräumigem, rundem. Der zweite Satz/Serie widmet sich der Statik. Blockartig wird sechsmal das gleiche Material, die gleiche Idee (in feinen Abweichungen) aneinandergereiht. Der dritte Satz/Serie widmet sich einer steten Entwicklung ohne vorhersehendem Ausgang. Ein in sich drehendes Motiv - analog zu runden Formen - dehnt sich und entwickelt sich zu einer Umkehrungsform. Der vierte Satz/Serie widmet sich momenthaften, in diskontinuierlichen und kontrastierenden Sektionen. Die Sektionen nehmen Form-Materialien aus Satz/Serie 1 bis 3 auf und überraschen mit einem kurzen neuen Element. Musikalisch sind die vier Sätze mit C-Spektren verbunden. Dem Spektralklang habe ich die kristalline Form gegenübergestellt. Diese Gegenüberstellung ist subjektiv und gründet in der Faszination für das Prisma (Kristallform). Wenn (weisses) Licht in geeignetem Winkel auf ein Prisma fällt, können die Spektralfarben durch die Lichtbrechung über die Kanten, sichtbar werden.

Idealerweise wird das Werk in einem quadratischen, abgedunkelten Raum zusammen mit den Steinserien gespielt und präsentiert. Die vier Musiker/innen spielen verteilt im Raum, jeder in einem Eck. Vor den vier Wänden stehen die Steinserien auf jeweils ca. 3m langen, schmalen Konsolen. Die Zuhörer sitzen in der Mitte des Raumes auf Hockern. Kurz vor dem Erklingen des 1. Satzes wird die 1. Steinserie beleuchtet. Das Licht fällt auf die jeweilige Steinserie des gerade gespielten Satzes. Nur eine Steinserie steht im Licht und erlöscht wieder wenn der Satz verklingt. Zeitgleich zum Erlöschen des Lichts wird die nächste Steinserie langsam erhellt. Dieser Ablauf geschieht in Uhrzeigerrichtung. Das Publikum hat zwischen den Sätzen, also während dem Lichtwechsel kurz Zeit, sich auf dem Hocker um jeweils 90 Grad zu drehen. Die Musiker sollten so wenig Licht als möglich benötigen, idealerweise spielen sie das Stück auswendig. Als Konzertversion können die Steinserien auch ad libitum weggelassen werden. Dann kann das Streichquartett auch in traditioneller Aufstellung gespielt werden. Andersherum können die Steinserien beispielsweise in einer Galerie oder einem Museum präsentiert und die Musik auch ab Tonband eingespielt werden. Dabei ist zu achten, dass die Lichtregie wie oben beschrieben beibehalten wird. Die Steinserien können auch fotografisch aufgenommen werden und (mit oder ohne Steinserien) an die Wand projiziert werden. Dies kann das Nachvollziehen der Zeitverläufe in der Vergrösserung der Projektion an den Wänden vertiefen helfen.

Die Steinserien sollen bis vor Beginn des Erklingens der Musik verhüllt sein. Sie werden im Dunkeln kurz vor dem Start enthüllt. Die Steine haben eine Grösse von wenigen Zentimetern bis zu 40cm Breite und Höhe und 30cm Tiefe. Maximalgewicht pro Stein ist 20 Kg.

Die Steinserien wurden parallel zur Komposition von mir geschaffen. Es sind vier verschiedene Gesteinsarten: 1. Serie besteht aus transparentem-weissem Alabaster, 2. Serie besteht aus rotem Selenit, 3. Serie besteht aus weissem Steatit und die 4. Serie besteht aus schwarzem Alabaster."

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 43.20

Instrumentation: for oboe solo, flute (piccolo), clarinet, horn, harp, two violins, viola, violoncello and double-bass

This piece is suitable for oboe and ensemble but oboe and a small orchestra is preferable. The oboe is very demanding but the harp and horn also play important parts.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 41.40

Instrumentation: for pipa (Chinese lute) and string quartet

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 23.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet

CHF: 26.70

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bass clarinet and string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 27.60

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 22.00

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"

CHF: 34.00

Lux obscura

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Manuscript

CHF: 44.40

Instrumentation: for clarinet and string quartet

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: for tuba, string quartet and piano

A series of variations over a bass result in a cathartic waltz.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Six movements convoluted into a series consisting of ten parts to be played attacca.

Duration: 40' 00"

CHF: 100.80

Instrumentation: for male speaker, female speaker, choir and string quartet

Duration: 35' 00"

CHF: 77.80

Instrumentation: for guqin, pre-recorded tape and string quartet

Commissioned by the Guqin player Ms. Dai Xiaolian, I composed "The Tender Language of Wu" for guqin, pre-recorded tape and string quartet. The tape recording was completed with the help from Suzhou native students Li Mingyue, Zhou Heqing, Lu Wenyi and Gu Yunyu from the Musicology Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Zhang Shichao from the Composition Department of the same school.

Suzhou dialect is often considered to be soft, light, and flowing, therefore given a good name Wu nong ruan yu , which literally means "The Tender Language of Wu". Guqin and western string instruments are both characteristic of gentleness and elegance. I had intended to create a dialogue between these different factors by integrating the ancient Chinese and western string instruments with the tender language of Wu and modern digital audio technology.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 19.30

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"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Commissioned by ProQuartet & Philharmonie de Paris.
The first performance was given by le Quatuor Akilone in l'Amphitheatre de la Cite de la musique, 11 Feb. 2018.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 23.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 12' 40"

CHF: 44.40

Musik für Sopran, Mezzosopran und Streichquartett

Instrumentation: Sopran, Mezzosopran und Streichquartett ("2Vl, Vla, Vc)

Texts: aus dem Psalm 130

1. de profundis (Mezzosopran), 2. fiant aures tuae (Sopran),
3. sustinuit anima mea (Mezzosopran), 4. misericordia (Sopran),
5. de profundis (Sopran und Mezzosopran)
es gibt auch eine Version Sopran und Bariton

Duration: 47' 00"

CHF: 51.00

Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 30.00

La sérénité

Monolithic, very architectural and expressive.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 49.20

A cyclic arch consisting of six movements.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: Streichquartett (2 Vl, Vla, Vc)

über das japanisches Lied Heimat (Furusato)

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 20.40

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"

CHF: 14.40

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Ergon 25

Instrumentation: for string quartet

This piece, written specially for the 'Arditti-Quartett', is compressed in certain core moments to a twenty-fold layer convolute which, little by little, is lost through oscillation and fluctuation to the borders, so that at the end, in a very fast tempo, nothing but a shadow of the initial material remains.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 43.80

Instrumentation: for pianoforte and baroque string quartet

This work in one movement is a homage to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It contains quotates from the Fantaisies and from a Rondo by this composer. The pianoforte part is either in a free style, concert-like or very rhythmic and demands an advanced level of play. The quartet is written in traditional notation. The piano which was used for the world premiere was a copy of an instrument of 1815.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet and improvisations trio

This work leaves behind the identity of the classical tradition and its strengths (string quartet is widely notated; frequent free improvisation from the jazz tio (saxophone, piano and percussion)) and brings them together only there where real points of contact exist. Integration II and III are conceived in a similar way.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Psalm 130 (129) in Armenian

Instrumentation: for soprano solo, English horn and four strings

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for Pipa and String Quartet

Duration: 9' 30"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for voice and string quartet

Texts: Dschang Dji, Andreas Gryphius, Hugo Ball, Li-Tai-Pe

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 22.70

These three movements have titles that refer to literary forms or genres: Novelle - Elegie - Ballade.
Novelle, fittingly, is a 'prose form', while Elegie displays a metrical form. Ballade refers not to the romantic narrative poem, but to the medieval dancing song.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 58.20

Instrumentation: for string quartet and improvisations trio

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet and improvisations trio

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo and string quartet

This is an enriched version of 'Message' for violoncello solo. The solo part is exactly the same but divided up into four episodes. The viola also remains in the role it played in the first version. The notation for the strings is relatively easy.

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and string quartet

Texts: Marianne Bonzon Brachetta

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 27.60

'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"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for horn and string quartet

This work quotes a Haiku recited once by the hornist. It is inspired by the acidic sounds of Gagaku (music of the imperial court of Japan) and by the tense melismas of Nô. The string quartet's tempo is generally independent of the horn's. The five instrumentalist need to have a good command of micro intervals. The particular timbre of the quartet derives from researching the "fake" unisons.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 25.20

Five simple, quasi-archetypal structures form the basis of this work: accents with differentiated final notes, punctual and cliché fields, sound surfaces, repetitions and pulse. It offers, with simple clarity, an opportunity for the listener to follow the musical process and, more particularly, the form which it supports.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Instrumentation: for saxophone quartet (SATBar) and string quartet

This work forms with calculated emotional intention the intertwining, togetherness and conflict of the two quartets. The security net provided by the rational prearrangements allows greater freedom and confidence in the emotional decisions made regarding concrete sounds, instruments, complexity and developments.

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for baritone saxophone and string quartet

A comfortable afternoon in a dusty café: as in times past, a string quartet plays a waltz that nobody listens to, a never-ending, continuously repetitive violin melody and an almost imperceptibly shifting accompaniment. Added to this is a completely inappropriate baritone saxophone - sometimes blending in, sometimes detached and sometimes obstinately defiant. Suddenly a bang! And everything collapses into shadowy ruins.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Duration: 4' 30"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: for piano, percussion and string quartet

For advanced amatuers.
This piece was composed for the music Matura. The education of young people is the same for all until the Matura stage. Here, at the first major turning point in their lives, individuals must decide which direction they wish to take. Thus the 'turning point' became one fundamental concept behind this work, walking together and walking alone became another. They are processed on various levels - both on the quasi-motif and the formal.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for string quartet and percussion

This composition is based on a process or a figurative concept: one or several lines are engraved into a surface, derived from the opposing string surface and percussion line. Surfaces and lines exist in the most varied of forms, colours, intensities and mutations thereof, and the contrast traverses various grades and forms. By utilising three cardboard boxes, the percussion section is also able to play flat rubbing noises that create an approximation of everyday sounds. The spectrum expands at various points throughout the work when totally different elements are suddenly introduced.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for soprano and string quartet

Texts: Max E. Keller

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.00

The 5th String Quartet was written in 2013: A world of incompatible contrasts, of insurmountable disparity regarding wealth, ideology, society and economy. This is reflected in the music by way of hugely contrasting fortissimo and pianissimo passages that usually follow each other without break. Occurring occasionally between these passages are very long general pauses, which can be understood as an extreme form of pianissimo. In the last part, the sections are less strictly designed, more colourful, using even two or more elements. But the result is not a synthesis; there is no convergence of fortissimo and pianissimo.
Dedicated to the ensemble ECLAT (Seoul).

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: Violine, Klavier, Streichquartett

Ausgangspunkt sind Klangflächen: vom ausgehaltenen, vielstimmigen Akkord aus Tönen oder aus Geräuschen bis zu Flächen, die aus der Überlagerung von Partikeln resultieren. Die Längen und die Typen der Flächen sind ein Gefüge, ein Rahmen, innerhalb dessen die Partikel sich - vorwärts oder rückwärts - entwickeln, wuchern, oder mehr geplant sich verändern, ab- oder nehmen - auch indem zunehmend mehr Instrumente mitwirken - oder auch stillstehen

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for Pipa and String Quartet

Duration: 12' 19"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for Pipa and String Quartet

after the old Pipa tune SaiShangQu - Legacy from Wei Zhongle & Zhao Yongshan

Duration: 9' 53"

CHF: 13.80

Instrumentation: for Pipa with String Quartet

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for Pipa and String Quartet

Duration: 7' 38"

CHF: 30.00

Instrumentation: für Streichquartett

(Chromatische Harmonien, relativ leicht zu spielen)

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: pipa and string quartet

Duration: 7' 40"

CHF: 30.00