Otto M. Schwarz

The Bridge on the Border is a European bridge connecting the German city of Kehl to the French city of Strasbourg. This piece tells the passionate story of German and French lovers who meet at the bri...

La commissione del Pentaphonia Brass Quintet e della Haize Berriak Sakanako Musika Ekartea Concert Band dei Paesi Baschi spagnoli era di scrivere un pezzo per quintetto di ottoni e banda da concerto....

Mundus Novus ('New World') is a travelogue in the form of letters sent by the sailor and explorer Amerigo Vespucci in 1502 to the Florentine nobleman Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco di Medici. The life and d...

IToccato profondamente dalle catastrofi delle centrali nucleari di Fukushima più recentemente, ma anche di Tschernobyl in tempi ormai lontani, Otto M. Schwarz ha composto Nuclear Power, un impressiona...

Otto M. Schwarz traduce in musica le gesta del gruppo 'Weisse Rose' (Rosa Bianca), fondato dopo i tragici eventi di Stalingrado e che tra il 1942 e il 1943 vede il gruppo attivo in delicate azioni vol...

Homeland was created to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Hohe Tauern National Park in the Austrian Alps. The many achievements in this largest reserve in the Alps include the reintroduction of th...

As cultural ambassador for the state, the Orchestra of the Rhineland-Pfalz State Police commissioned this work to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding in 2013. What do Steve Jobs, Mark Zucke...

Mondi sommersi, castelli incantati, despoti senza cuore, ricchi e cattivi che scacciano i poveri, figure losche, vendetta, Atlantide ... questi sono gli interessanti soggetti che appaiono nell'ultima...

Skyliner is the first symphonic concert march from the pen of composer Otto M. Schwarz. His debut in this genre is a spectacular concert march in his unmistakable filmic style. In Skyliner, Otto M. Sc...

One of man's great dreams has always been to fly high through the air like a bird, free as a bird. There are ancient Greek legends such of those of Daedalus and Icarus, and indeed as early as the 9th...

One of man's great dreams has always been to fly high through the air like a bird, free as a bird. There are ancient Greek legends such of those of Daedalus and Icarus, and indeed as early as the 9th...

This programmatic composition tells the story of a group of workers from a remote forest in the French speaking part of Canada. They are longing to be with their families as Christmas is coming soon a...

On the Wildon Mountain, deep inside Austria, there once lived generations of giants, terrorizing the inhabitants of the valley. However, the people of the valley were determined to put an end to the b...

Who doesn't know the iconic words 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind', spoken by the famous astronaut Neil Armstrong - the man that took the first step on the moon. This inspir...

The walls of Babylon, the Great Wall of China, the limes of the Roman Empire and the Berlin Wall are just a few examples of the walls mankind has built over past centuries. Today, building walls remai...

C'era una volta in Nord America una madre e la sua piccola figlia che facevano parte di una comunità di Ojibwa. La bambina soffriva di gravi incubi. La madre chiese aiuto alla "Donna Ragno", nota anch...

Once upon a time in North America, there lived a mother and her small daughter who were part of a community of Ojibwa people. The girl suffered from severe nightmares. The mother sought help from 'Spi...

This programmatic piece is about a simple miner by the name of Gottlieb Bäumler and his pact with the devil. In the program note one can follow each step of the story so you can almost hear the events...

This programmatic piece is about a simple miner by the name of Gottlieb Bäumler and his pact with the devil. In the program note one can follow each step of the story so you can almost hear the events...

This work was inspired by a French astronaut and saxophonist who played his saxophone while aboard the International Space Station! During the piece, the audience joins the 'Proxima' mission step by s...

This work was inspired by a French astronaut and saxophonist who played his saxophone while aboard the International Space Station! During the piece, the audience joins the 'Proxima' mission step by s...

The Semmering Pass, also known as Zauberberg, is a mountain pass in Eastern Austria, which forms a natural border between Lower Austria and Styria. The pass was historically established as a major tra...

Nel 1934, la città di Melbourne celebrò il suo centenario e festeggiò l'occasione con la MacRobertson International Air Race. KLM partecipò con il suo primo DC-2, PH-AJU "Uiver" (Cicogna), che decollò...

In 1934, the city of Melbourne celebrated its centenary and marked the occasion with the MacRobertson International Air Race. KLM's entry was its first DC-2, PH-AJU 'Uiver' (Stork), which took off on...

Geschichten, Sagen und Legenden - wer kennt sie nicht? Eigentlich immer mit Brutalität gewürzt, spiegeln sie die Erziehungsmethoden vergangener Zeiten wider: Neugierige Kinder alleine im Wald werden f...