Jörg Widmann

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...

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,...

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...

My dark and shadowy piano Intermezzi are followed by these Zirkustänze [circus dances]. They are naturally - on a superficial level - simpler, more cheerful, brighter and also more garish, drastic and...

My dark and shadowy piano Intermezzi are followed by these Zirkustänze [circus dances]. They are naturally - on a superficial level - simpler, more cheerful, brighter and also more garish, drastic and...

'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...

180 Beats per minute' entstand 1993, kurz nach meiner Schulzeit. Die damals sehr angesagten 'Techno-Nights' inspirierten mich zu diesem Stück. Ein rhythmischer Drive und ein permanenter Wechsel des Pu...

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...

Widmann's Quintet is a deliberate tribute to Mozart's work for the same instrumentation (KV 452), both of which can be easily combined. In contrast to Mozart's classical forms of movements, Widmann co...

Der 'normale' Tastatur-Klavierklang bleibt in diesem Stück die Ausnahme, in der Singstimme wird auf Text weitgehend verzichtet und die Klarinettenstimme ist übersät mit Luft- und Mehrklängen.

'Should muses be silent while the guns speak?' asks Jörg Widmann, who was only 20 years old when composing this piece, with his Trio for Clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, a musical essay on three...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

This is one of the early works by which the clarinettest Jörg Widmann also made himself a name as a composer. The form develops from the - at first only tentative - interaction of the three instrument...

180 Beats per minute' entstand 1993, kurz nach meiner Schulzeit. Die damals sehr angesagten 'Techno-Nights' inspirierten mich zu diesem Stück. Ein rhythmischer Drive und ein permanenter Wechsel des Pu...

Diese Publikation entwirft in Form von Gesprächen das Porträt eines Komponisten und Interpreten, auf den die Fachwelt bereits seit längerem blickt: Jörg Widmann. Widmann zählt zu den Grenzgängern unte...

Der Band versammelt die Beiträge des Symposiums «Spuren» für und mit Jörg Widmann unter der Leitung von Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich im Rahmen von «Auftakt 2012» der Alten Oper Frankfurt/Main. Beiträge von...

As a clarinetist frequently performing with string quartets, the clarinet quintet is a strange omission from Jörg Widmann's catalogue of works. Up until now, his quintet programmes have included works...