Wolfgang Hufschmidt

GraunWV A:XIII:3, Herausgeber: Leonore und Günter von Zadow. Mit seinen faszinierenden und ungewöhnlichen Strukturen zeigt dieses Werk Grauns perfekte Kenntnis beider Soloinstrumente und seine Fähigke...

Art d'écho (identical in French pronunciation to the term 'Art deco') was composed in July 1998 at the request of Charles Frey, the artistic director of the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, to whom the wor...

Vermeer's Woman in blue reading a letter [La Liseuse] is not only a depiction of life in Holland in the 17th century, but also has deeply metaphysical elements in it - a tribute to inner nature, memor...

What fascinates me in Schubert's lieder, more even than the unusually creative melodic lines, is the number of piano accompaniment patterns (or Formel in German). These repetitive elements often conve...

Orchestra. Instrumentation: 2(2picc&flA&flB).1(ca).2(2clB).1(Cbn) / 1.2(trpB).2(trbA).0 / 2perc / 2pno / acdn / hp / 3.2.2.1(à 5 cordes)

Time Stretch (on Gesualdo) takes as its starting point Gesualdo's S'io non miro non moro from Book 5 of the Madrigals. From this short piece for five voices I derived a harmonic tapestry of 130 chords...

By the greatest fluke, in 2007 the two principal European orchestral conducting competitions proposed that I write an original work, which would be a requirement for the candidates. Finding the coinci...

Since I began writing music, the idea of conflict is one of my primary preoccupations. It has fuelled both my fondness for the concerto genre, and for spatialization. Over the last several years, I ha...

With his new work Postludium, Bruno Mantovani proposes a prolongation to his opera Akhmatova. With its condensed musical language, and quick rippling gestures, it is not a question of a conclusion, bu...