Wolfgang Hufschmidt

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

Der ab 1973 für Klavier entstandene Zyklus Spiele war ursprünglich als Klavierschule konzipiert, in deren ersten Bänden Kurtág den Kindern die Grundelemente des Klavierspiels und des musikalischen Den...

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

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A delightful way to introduce a multicultural perspective into your holiday programming, this little piece is charmingly festive and comes in multiple versions. Lively and vivacious, the expert choral...

It was the Paris premiere in 1981 of Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova that brought the world's attention to the music of György Kurtág (born 1926). The spectrum of these feminine poems in Russian...

The polymath, naturalist and aesthetician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) is an interesting figure of 18th-century German cultural history. Yet his most important work, his collection of aphor...

Mit den Schriften György Ligetis legt die Paul Sacher Stiftung die erste umfangreiche Textedition dieses herausragenden Komponisten der jüngeren Musikgeschichte vor. Die zentralen Essays finden sich h...

For almost eighty years, only incomplete manuscripts of this work were known to exist, but in 2007, the Eastman School of Music acquired a manuscript that had been in private hands since Howard Hanson...