Wolfgang Hufschmidt

For M, I drew on the works of three authors: Epicurus, Siger de Brabant and Paul-Henri, baron of Holbach, the three fragments of whose writings belong to the poetry of persecution. On the one hand, th...

High tenor, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, harpsichord and theorbe / Score

Ensemble. Instrumentation: fl / hb / cl / acdn / perc / pno / hp / 1.0.1.1.0

There exists, in the hand of Roland Barthes, a series of eight pages with the eminently programmatic title of Vita Nova. This text, or rather these painstakingly adjusted sketches, has the tone of a p...

Prologue à Siegfried de Richard Wagner.

The work was commissioned by Musique Nouvelle en Liberté, and I composed it during my residency at Edenkoben in Germany, from August to September 1999. Although it uses some of the formal procedures o...