Alexander Goehr

'I wrote Idées fixes, subtitled Sonata for 13, in the Spring of 1997. The composition is in one continuous movement and is symmetrical in plan. The title refers to three basic motifs which pervade the...

gemischter Chor mit Orgel oder Klavier oder Violoncello

My Symphony in One Movement was begun in Boston, in April 1969, and completed in New Haven, Connecticut, in February 1970. It was commissioned by the New Philharmonia Orchestra for its visit to the Wo...

Conductor's Score.

Alexander Goehr's Warngedichte (Warning Poems) are settings of poems of the same name by a poet and friend of the composer Erich Fried. Composed in 1967, this new edition brings the work to new perfor...

Alexander Goehr's Warngedichte (Warning Poems) are settings of poems of the same name by a poet and friend of the composer Erich Fried. Composed in 1967, this new edition brings the work to new perfor...

Textbuch deutsch.

Textbuch englisch

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll für Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow l...