Péter Eötvös: spartiti difficile

Dance of the Butterflies: Brush-footed butterflies dance in a very special way with their four special legs. Eötvös transfers their miniature dances to the keyboard and sends a greeting from his garde...

As most of my instrumental pieces, Joyce is also based on a literary source. My first string quartet (Korrespondenz) transferred the correspondence between Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at time...

L'idea di suonare due strumenti alternativamente mi è venuta da Clark Terry, che ho visto in un video. Per me, a parte il suo virtuosismo nell'alternare i due strumenti, la differenza di timbro era un...

Klavierauszug des Komponisten und Paul L. Schäffer Die Struktur musikalischer Hierarchien in drei Sätzen: Do für die westliche,

L'idea dello spettacolo è nata da una prova che ho visto a Berlino con Klaus Michael Grüber. Tre attori stavano provando una scena di Kleist. Alla fine Grüber disse: "... ancora una volta in una lettu...

Die junge Schlgazeugerin Leonie Klein hat eine Solo-Fassung des genialen Schlagzeugkonzerts von Peter Eötvös geschrieben. Virtuos lehrt der Schlagzeuger seinen Instrumenten das Sprechen, bis die Tromm...

Die junge Schlgazeugerin Leonie Klein hat eine Solo-Fassung des genialen Schlagzeugkonzerts von Peter Eötvös geschrieben. Virtuos lehrt der Schlagzeuger seinen Instrumenten das Sprechen, bis die Tromm...

In December 2015, Peter Eötvös composed his short work for violin solo which plays with hearing, perceiving and responding to musical structures. Inspired by a line from James Joyce's Ulysses, there i...

Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actu...

Eötvös wrote this piece in memory of the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003. The number 7 determines the musical, rhythmic and formal structure of the...

Sopran und 8 Bläser

This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer: for...

Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the oppos...