Ballade von dem Puff, das Freiheit heißt (Premiere Munich 2011)

Words: Konstantin Wecker

for voice (bariton), trombone, accordeon and slide-guitar

4‘

Comission for the Festival A*Devantgarde Munich 2011



Fred Ott‘s Sneeze (Premiere Hamburg 2011)

for clarinet/bassclarinet, violin, cello, piano,
percussion and tape

10‘30

Comission for Ensemble Intégrales (Hamburg)



Ausreißer (Outlier) (Premiere Hamburg 2010)

for clarinet/bass clarinet, double bass, piano, percussion and tape




Six Buxtehude-Arrangements (Premiere Augsburg 2010)

for large ensemble (18 players)

after works by Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

45‘

Commissioned by the Theater of the City of Augsburg

for the ballet „Orpheus“ by Leo Mujic



Watch Out for the Evil Eye
(Premiere Bamberg; Gothenburg 2010)

for zither and electronics

Music for the video installation of the same name
by Linda Tedsdotter

14'



Broken Consort III - Schwebendes Verfahren

(Premiere Hamburg; Strasbourg; Lyon 2009)

for ten players

11'30

Commissioned by OPUS XXI (Landesmusikrat Hamburg)



Seismographien (Premiere Munich 2009)

„Messungen“ upon Antoine Brumel (1460-1515)

combined with three arrangements of Brumels Missa "Et ecce terrae motus"

for 6 singers und 17 strings

30'

Commissioned by the festival A*Devantgarde Munich

for the vocal ensemble SingerPur and the Munich Chamber Orchestra



FLEX (Premiere Frankfurt am Main; Munich 2009)

for large ensemble (18 players)

13'

written for the Ensemble Modern



TUNNEL (Premiere Hamburg 2008)

for piano trio

9'

Commissioned by Annemarie and Hermann Rauhe

for the Boulanger Trio



MEDEA (Premiere Hamburg 2008)

music theater after Christa Wolf, text version: Dominik Neuner

for one singer, 5 actors, 11 instrumentalists und electronics

75'



PIDGEN (Erratischer Block II) (Premiere Klagenfurt (A) 2008)

for microtonal discant zither and 13 instrumentalists

18'

awarded with the "Gustav-Mahler-Kompositionspreis" Klagenfurt 2008



String Trio "August Frommers Dinge" (Premiere Zürich; Basel 2008)

18'

Commissioned by the Mondrian Ensemble



"Mysterien eines Frisiersalons" (Premiere Munich 2008)

New live-music for silent movies of Karl Valentin

for microtonal alto zither and electronics

60'



The Harpsdischord I (Premiere Hamburg 2009)

for harp in scordatura

10'



LOGBUCH (in memoriam K.V.) (Premiere Munich 2007)

„Drei Einträge“ for zither (microtonal) solo

11'

Publisher: edition zither



Erratischer Block I (Premiere Bremen 2007)

for violin, saxophone, piano, percussion, microtonal alto zither

and tape

23’

Commissioned by Ensemble Intégrales (Hamburg)



Carmen (Premiere Hamburg 2006)

Instrumentation and in some parts new composition of the opera of

Georges Bizet in the abridged version of Thomas Mika

(S, MS, T, Bar, fl./piccolo, cl./bcl., tr., 2 perc., discant zither, vl., vla., vlc., db.)

60’


    with:


    3 Schriftstücke (aus Carmen)

    electroacustic music

    10'



Hiatus (2006)

for alto recorder and tape

8’30’’



Icarus in Augsburg (Disklavierversion) (Premiere Hamburg 2006)

for disklavier, live-electronics and tape

after a poem from „Des Knaben Wunderhorn“

9’



Radio Cut (Premiere Hamburg 2006)

choreographical scene for seven instrumentalists

fl/picc-cl/bcl-piano with bassdrum-2vl-vla-vlc with chimes

3’30’’



Aggregat (Premiere Hamburg 2005)

for violoncello, microtonal bass zither and electronics

12’



Senkblei (Premiere Munich 2005)

for guitar und two zithers (or three zithers)

6’30’’



über Dörfer (Premiere Munich 2004)

electroacustic composition

11'



vor Geiger (Premiere Munich 2004)

electroacustic composition

9'



Icarus in Augsburg (Galgenversion) (Premiere Paris 2004)

for a pianist with recitation ad libitum,

live-elektronics und tape

after a poem from „Des Knaben Wunderhorn“

9’



Broken Consort II – ENIGMA (Premiere Munich 2003)

for tenor, historical Instruments and tape

7’30

Commissioned by the festival A*Devantgarde Munich



Muspilli (Premiere Regensburg 2002)

oratory for soloists, instruments, choir, orchestra and tape

after a manuscript of the 9th century, and after texts from Galileo Galilei and Alfred Jarry

60'

Commissioned by the Regensburg Philharmonic Orchestra

the Theater Regensburg und the Choir Niedermünster



Echolot (Premiere Trossingen 2001)

Chaconne [auf der Suche] nach Silvius Leopold Weiss

for zither and invisible zither

5’

awarded with the „Kompositionswettbewerb des DZB“

Publisher: Richard Grünwald, Munich



Anna Livia Plurabelle (Premiere Munich 2001)

musical scene for 2 singers, 5 instrumentalists and tape

after „Finnegans Wake“ by James Joyce.

text version by the composer

(mezzosoprano- countertenor-bassflute-bassclarinet-violoncello-bass zither-percussion-tape)

20’

Commissioned by the festival A*Devantgarde Munich



Stele (Premiere Munich 2000, rev. 2007)

for alto-zither solo

7’

Publisher: edition zither



Broken Consort I – LAMENT (Premiere Hamburg 2000)

for tenor, tenor recorder, viola da gamba and alto zither

after the Metamorphoses of Ovid

7’30“



Treibgut (Post-praeludium zu ALPenmusik) (Premiere Munich 1999)

for violin, alto zither and contraguitar (or guitar)

8’



ALPenmusik (Premiere Munich 1999)

three pieces with Anna Livia Plurabelle for ALPine instruments

after Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

30’


    with:


    ALP-Horn

    for eleven sound spots

    alto - fluegelhorn - cowbells

    alto recorder - clarinet - accordeon - viola

    tenor dulcimer - bass zither – marimba - drums


    ALP-Traum

    1. Zwiefacher for tenor dulcimer in scordatura and harp

    2. Dreigsang for three voices, tenor dulcimer in scordatura, harp and alto zither


    ALP-Druck

    for 3x3 instruments

    clar - acc - xylofone & spoons

    viola - tenor dulcimer - discant zither

    db - double bass dulcimer -  bass zither


Preview:


New piece

for zither and orchestra

Hambrug Phiharmonic Orchestra,
conductor: Simone Young

premiere Hamburg 2012

New piece

for ICTUS Ensemble

premiere „Darmstaedter Ferienkurse 2012“