Hans Abrahamsen

The title Marchenbilder, or Fairy-tale Pictures, borrowed from Schumann, awakens notions of music which in itself has a pictorial quality. In all, the score comprises six Fairytale Pictures, the first...

Four Pieces For Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2000-2003. Programme note: In 1983 Hans Abrahamsen wrote the first seven of his Ten Studies for Piano. In the early eighties most composers...

Hans Abrahamsen's Two Pieces In Slow Time for Brass Ensemble and Percussion from 1999.

Three Little Nocturnes was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2005. Commissioned by the Cikada Ensemble, with support from NOMUS, and written for Frode Haltli and the Cikada String Quartet. Programme Note...

Aarhus Ragtime (à la Charles Ives) - a Palimsest for Ensemble by Hans Abrahamsen (1991) Dedicated to Steen Pade. Manuscript copy.

The first 2 canons of Hans Abrahamsen's key work Schnee - 10 Canons for 9 Instruments from 2006-08 (WH31173). If a complete performance is not possible, you may perform (as indicated) the extract Cano...

Programme Note Winternach was written in1976-78 and the title was taken from a poem by the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. The four movements, which are all very precise and dreamingly poetic, are almost c...

Wald for Ensemble was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2008-09. Co-commission by the Schönberg Ensemble and BBC for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Programme note by the composer: Wald is, in a way...

Walden for wind quintet was written in 1978 and commissioned by the Funen Wind Quintet. The title is taken from the American philosopher and poet Henry David Thoreau's novel from 1854 about living in...

Set of parts for Hans Abrahamsen's Ud og hjem for String Quartet (1989). Dyrecollage over danske bornesange / An 'animal collage' based on Danish children songs. Manuscriptcopy.

Hans Abrahamsen 's 10 Preludes - Version for Cello Quartet (2013). Parts are available: WH33003A The original version Preludes 1-10 for String Quartet was composed in 1973 : WH29531B

Set of parts for Hans Abrahamsen 's 10 Preludes - Version for Cello Quartet (2013). Score: WH33003 The original version Preludes 1-10 for String Quartet was composed in 1973 : WH29531B

Vers le silence was written during the COVID-19 lockdown and is a new milestone among Hans Abrahamsen’s orchestral works. For the first time since Nacht und Trompeten from 1981, Abrahamsen has compose...

Hans Abrahamsen's Ud og hjem for String Quartet (1989). Dyrecollage over danske bornesange / An 'animal collage' based on Danish children songs. Manuscript copy. Partsavailable: WH33031A

This is the Solo Violin part for Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen.

Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the Arditti Quartet