Jörg Widmann

'Ein Orakelspruch für sechs Kontrabässe' (An oracle for six double-basses) - this is how Widmann calls his composition which he wrote upon commission of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasi...

My 2nd string quartet is one single slow movement. The piece does not directly reflect Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words but I would not have been able to write it without knowing that work. The movemen...

The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jörg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the perfo...

Flute en suite non è uno dei miei concerti strumentali "epici" come il concerto per violoncello, violino o oboe. Si tratta invece di un arrangiamento molto più piccolo, simile a una suite, di varie fo...

Dopo diversi pezzi che riguardavano il flusso e la padronanza di una forma su larga scala, nel 1997 mi ha affascinato l'idea dei pezzi di Bruch: riduzione, abbreviazione, concentrazione. Gli strumenti...

Jörg Widmann, solista ricercato a livello internazionale e professore di clarinetto alla Musikhochschule di Friburgo, dispiega tutta la raffinatezza del suono contemporaneo del clarinetto nei Cinque f...

Edizione unica - clarinetto in Sib (Danza I+II) e in La (Danza III) Vent'anni dopo l'ultimo pezzo solistico per il mio strumento, la Fantasie für Klarinette solo, mi sono nuovamente innamorato dell'an...

Il sentimento struggente insito in ogni elegia è praticamente predestinato al mondo sonoro del clarinetto, ma in questo attraente pezzo da concerto è, come osservò una volta il compositore, "spinato".

Although I never had any 'official' lessons with him, Heinz Holliger has become and will always remain a lifelong teacher to me. And we have developed a friendship that started 10 years ago, in Davos,...

Jörg Widmann treats the violon at first as a vocal instrument, just in the tradition of the great violin concertos of the 19th century through to Alban Berg. But from the cantabile lines, often writte...

In 2006, Jörg Widmann composed these noble, deliberately simple cadenzas for Mozart's violin concerto as a commission from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and violinist Isabelle van Keulen. In t...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

Jörg Widmann komponierte die Signale für sechs Stimmen anlässlich der Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2003 ohne die Verwendung eines konkreten Textes. Die einzelnen Stimmen behandeln rein phonetisc...

Questo virtuoso straniamento della "Marcia bavarese di Defilier", familiare non solo ai visitatori dell'Oktoberfest, è uno scherzo d'avanguardia per tutta la famiglia del clarinetto. Una confusione mu...

Referring to Robert Schumann, the title sets the general mood of these character pieces which alternate between Romantic and contemporary tonal language. This is how the composer stresses it in his pr...

Widmann's Intermezzi are influenced by the famous cycles of Johannes Brahms (Op. 116 - Op. 119) which are cited quite frequently. In the preface of the edition, Widmann hints at its 'unsettling reduct...

'Fleurs du mal' ostensibly fits into the traditional pattern of the three-movement piano sonata and conforms to rudimentary sonata form. Yet the formal restrictions - including the predominance of the...

This piece was composed by Jörg Widmann for the Italian pianist Irene Russo in 2003. Consisting only of sharp pulse patterns and their lingering sound, it explores the tonal possibilities of the whole...

Lichtstudie III ist eine Studie zur Variabilität pianistischer Clusterbildungen. Inspiriert von den Raum-Licht-Installationen James Turrells wird eine Statik von Klangflächen erprobt, ein introspektiv...

Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a...