Thomas Doss: spartiti difficile

The Pilgrim Concerto, written for the 2012 World Music Contest Kerkrade, is a highly demanding yet rewarding work for alto saxophone. Sometimes minimalistic and at other times romantic, it describes a...

PANOPTIKUM is a work that shows off the versatility of this splendid instrument, written in a musical style that is both fresh and modern. Thomas Doss created a work that allows stylistic leaps and is...

This composition for tuba and piano was commissioned by Wolfgang Rosenthaler, teacher of tuba at the Upper Austrian Association of Music Schools. The goal was to produce a repertoire piece that was su...

Toccata e Fantasia was inspired by the composers' love of Anton Bruckner's fantastic wind instrument scoring in his symphonies. Within Toccata e Fantasia Thomas Doss has used several of Bruckner's mot...

Toccata e Fantasia was inspired by the composers' love of Anton Bruckner's fantastic wind instrument scoring in his symphonies. Within Toccata e Fantasia Thomas Doss has used several of Bruckner's mot...

Sketches from Nowhere is the second composition that Thomas Doss has written for brass band. The title was inspired by various images the composer saw in his mind's eye while working on this piece: pi...

Sketches from Nowhere is the second composition that Thomas Doss has written for brass band. The title was inspired by various images the composer saw in his mind's eye while working on this piece: pi...

A Bach chorale stands at the centre of this work (Für deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit). Anton Bruckner was one of Johann Sebastian Bach's great admirers. His work is full of the spirit of that musical...

A Bach chorale stands at the centre of this work (Für deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit). Anton Bruckner was one of Johann Sebastian Bach's great admirers. His work is full of the spirit of that musical...

Time Machine is a journey through time that begins in the Stone Age. Evolution and the coming of man take place. The journey takes us into the present, in which disorientation and chaos abound. We tra...

Time Machine is a journey through time that begins in the Stone Age. Evolution and the coming of man take place. The journey takes us into the present, in which disorientation and chaos abound. We tra...

Sweet echoes of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the introduction bring a gentle slumber. Breathing is calm and sleep holds the promise of rest and relaxation. With the onset of the REM sleep phase, ho...

Sweet echoes of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the introduction bring a gentle slumber. Breathing is calm and sleep holds the promise of rest and relaxation. With the onset of the REM sleep phase, ho...

In this piece, the composer depicts a mother who hears her unborn baby cry for her. She is thrown into doubt as to whether she will keep the child, and passes this feeling onto the baby. Underlying th...

In this piece, the composer depicts a mother who hears her unborn baby cry for her. She is thrown into doubt as to whether she will keep the child, and passes this feeling onto the baby. Underlying th...

Aurora was the Greek goddess of dawn. Through the ages dawn has had a significant spiritual meaning - daylight conquering the ominous darkness of the night. This exciting work by Thomas Doss uses musi...

Aurora: die griechische Göttin der Morgenröte. Durch die Jahrhunderte wurde der Morgenröte eine große spirituelle Bedeutung beigemessen, als ?berbringerin des Lichts nach der unheilvollen Dunkelheit d...

Solaris beschreibt Szenen vor einer Sonnenfinsternis: Zu Beginn spiegelt sich beispielsweise die Sonne im Meer und Walgesänge vermischen sich mit dem Klang des Windes und der Wellen. Bei vielen Völker...

Solaris beschreibt Szenen vor einer Sonnenfinsternis: Zu Beginn spiegelt sich beispielsweise die Sonne im Meer und Walgesänge vermischen sich mit dem Klang des Windes und der Wellen. Bei vielen Völker...

As with the first symphony, the second symphony is not programmatic as such, but also takes its inspiration from the confrontation of man with his role in nature. Dedicated to the 2011 National Garden...

Dort ist Gjallarhorn - das 'schallende Horn' - das Blashorn von Heimdall, dem strahlenden Schutzgott und Wächter der Regenbogenbrücke Bifröst, welche Reisende von Midgard, der Welt, in der die Mensche...