Friderici Daniel

Commissioned by the Auricolae and the American Composers Forum for Strings in the Schools; The Three Little Pigs is a full-sounding showpiece for Violin and Cello; telling the familiar story while ill...

For Xylophone and Band, From Concerto For Solo Percussion and Orchestra

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A gently rocking accompaniment beautifully supports the flowing vocal lines in this touching Filipino folksong arrangement. VoiceTrax CD available. Performance Time: Approx. 2:45

Rather than adopting the well-known practice in certain 16th-century polyphonic music of superimposing temporal planes, this work aims to superimpose or overprint various semantic planes to be found b...

The original orchestration featured an interplay between the supporting clarinet; horn; and strings; which Dorff felt was lost in his first piano reduction of the Concerto. To restore that aspect of t...

...mais les images restent... is taken from the piano concerto Abschied, premiered at the Salzbourg festival in August 2001. This concerto is strongly associated with the memory and history of my fath...

For Piano Solo. Solo part. Composed JUNE, 1987. 4 pages.

As a standalone performance piece; Dorff's A Treeful of Monkeys is a delightful telling of an African folk tale; complete with narration. The instrumental ensemble describes a hat seller; a good numbe...