Elliott Carter

Retrouvailles wurde zum Feier des 75ten Geburtstages meines Freundes Pierre Boulez am 26. März 2000 komponiert. Darin kehrt das Motto wieder zu B, (o), U (=t), L (=a), E, (z) zurück, dass ich schon in...

Im Jahr 2012 verstarb der amerikanische Komponist Elliott Carter im stolzen Alter von fast 104 Jahren. Bis zuletzt hat er sich dem Komponieren gewidmet. Instances ist das letzte Orchesterwerk, das der...

The Pocahontas Ballet Suite is one of Carter's early works, and reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple...

For SATB Choir A Cappella.

Vokalpartitur - Soli und Orchester

Three settings of titles from The Collected Poems of Robert Frost, composed by Carter in 1942. Titles include: Dust of Snow / The Rose Family / The Line-Gang. Also available in a version orchestrated...

Night Fantasies is a piano piece of continuously changing moods, suggesting the fleeting thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind during a period of wakefulness at night. The quiet, nocturnal...

Work dating from 1948. Woodwind Quintet. Score available: GS23700

For 3 equal C or Bb intruments.

For Soprano and Chamber Orchestra. Six poems by Elizabeth Bishop.

For 4 clarinets.

Born in New York City on 11 December 1908, Elliott Carter began to be seriously interested in music in high school and was encouraged at that time by Charles Ives. He attended Harvard University where...

Composed in 1974 and commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress, Duo was first performed by Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish on March 21, 1975. It reflects the contrast between the soun...

Work for Orchestra composed in 1944 and revised in 1961.

Hiyoku ist ein poetisches Wort, das ursprünglich von dem alten chinesischen Dichter Bai Juyi verwendet wurde, später aber auch Eingang in die Sprache vieler japanischer Dichter fand. Es bedeutet, dass...

Parts only for: 2 violins, viola and cello.

String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned in 1971 by the Julliard School for the Julliard String Quartet. It subdivides the ensemble into two duos, which play contrasting movements both individually and a...

The years from 1935 to 1950 were difficult ones for Elliot Carter. Wide recognition came only in 1951, when he was forty-three, with this work The First String Quartet. This work features diversified...