2 (2. auch Picc.) · 2 · 2 · 2 - 2 · 2 · 0 · 0 - P. - Str. (14 · 12 · 10 · 8 · 6) orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q18766 Konzertouvertüre für Orchester. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. ...a wonderful 12 minutes of magic and humour, brilliantly scored... (Ivan Hewett / The Telegraph, 2009). Downloadable, Study score. Duration 12 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q18766. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q18766). It was at the suggestion of the conductor of the World Première, Mariss Jansons, that Jörg Widmann refers to musical characteristics of Beethoven’s 7th and 8th Symphony. His starting points primarily are specific fast types of movement in the Beethoven works which he translates into his tonal language. Widmann has chosen the same instrumentation as the Beethoven symphonies and takes on the task of causing a similar ‘stir and rhythmic pressure’ (Widmann) with these economical means.

6 double basses - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11701 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Double-Bass Library. Downloadable, score and parts. Duration 14 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11701. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11701). 'Ein Orakelspruch für sechs Kontrabässe' (An oracle for six double-basses) – this is how Widmann calls his composition which he wrote upon commission of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the conductor Claudio Abbado. The subtle theme seems to be the saga of Teiresias, the blind prophet, from Greek mythology. According to Widmann himself, he imagined a sound for the unusual instrumentation of six double-basses that 'is both blind and seeing' in its enigmatic whispering.

Oboe, clarinet in A, bassoon, horn and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6559 For oboe, clarinet in A, horn, bassoon and piano. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 22 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6559. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6559). Widmann's Quintet is a deliberate tribute to Mozart's work for the same instrumentation (KV 452), both of which can be easily combined. In contrast to Mozart's classical forms of movements, Widmann composed 18 short miniatures some of which bear evocative titles while others bear musical-theoretical titles (e.g. 'Verwunschener Garten' (Enchanted Garden) or 'Kontrapunktische Studie' (Contrapuntal Study]). Traditional and contemporary playing techniques alternate in the musical texture. Therefore, in conjunction with the pointed style, this piece is also suitable for demanding educational purposes.

Flute and orchestra - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q25027 For flute and orchestral groups. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: piano reduction with solo part. Il Flauto traverso. Downloadable, Piano reduction with solo part. Duration 22 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q25027. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q25027). This ‚Suite’ is not one of my ‘epic’ instrumental concertos such as the concertos for cello, violin or oboe, but a substantially smaller-structured series of dance forms arranged into a suite. Sunken worlds suddenly emerge here, only to reach the surface, hover in dangerously distorted fashion and then sink back to the bottom. Almost every individual movement allots the solo flute a specific tonal colouring and an instrumental group from the orchestra: in the opening Allemande, the flutes of the orchestra (including alto and bass flute and later also piccolo to include the entire flute family); the string section in the Sarabande; in both chorales (extremely muted in the first and brutalist in the second), the brass etc.; and it is only in the concluding Badinerie that all orchestral groups are combined, although they are terraced in the Baroque style, one following another, seldom all playing simultaneously. This permits the flute to remain the provider of all impulses; it attaches itself to the wide variety of instrumental colours, becomes suffused with these colours and thereby shines in different lights – acerbic, pale and radiant. This first performance marks the conclusion of my two-year residence with the Cleveland Orchestra. The immense versatility of this fine body of sound (which is indeed treated as such with the sum of its parts) and the exciting dark timbre of its principal flautist Joshua Smith have to a great extent determined the form and tonal character of my Flûte en suite. Jörg WidmannThis ‚Suite’ is not one of my ‘epic’ instrumental concertos such as the concertos for cello, violin or oboe, but a substantially smaller-structured series of dance forms arranged into a suite. Sunken worlds suddenly emerge here, only to reach the surface, hover in dangerously distorted fashion and then sink back to the bottom. Every individual movement allots the solo flute an instrumental group from the orchestra: in the opening Allemande, the flutes of the orchestra; the string section in the Sarabande; in both chorales the brass etc.; and it is only in the concluding Badinerie that all orchestral groups are combined, although they are terraced in the Baroque style, one following another, seldom all playing simultaneously. This first performance marks the conclusion of my two-year residence with the Cleveland Orchestra. The immense versatility of this fine body of sound and the exciting dark timbre of its principal flautist Joshua Smith have to a great extent determined the form and tonal character of my Flûte en suite. Jörg Widmann3 (2. auch Altfl., 3. auch Bassfl., alle auch Picc.) · 3 (2. auch Ob. d’am., 3. auch Engl. Hr.) · 0 · 3 (3. auch Kfg.) - 4 · 4 · 3 · 1 - S. (Glsp. · Vibr. · 3 hg. Beck. [h./m./t.] · chin. Beck. · 4 Gongs · 4 Buckelgongs · 2 Tamt. [m./t.] · Wassertamt. · gr. Tr. · Metal Chimes · Peitsche) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. · Cel. (auch Cemb.) - Str. (10 · 8 · 6 · 4 · 3).

String quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q778767 String Quartet No. 6. Composed by Joerg Widmann. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 27 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q778767. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q778767). My quartets composed between 1997 and 2005 were conceived as an interconnected, self-contained cycle of works ranging from the (in my opinion) quasi revolutionary Quartet No. 1 to the Quartet No. 5 entitled Versuch über die Fuge [Attempt at a Fugue]. The Quartet No. 6 – Study on Beethoven – composed fourteen years after No. 5 should be conceived as a new approach and the commencement of a new quartet cycle with an unknown ending. All that can be said is that the subsequent quartets will be devoted to an intense study of Ludwig van Beethoven’s unique and consummate artistry of quartet composition. Despite a reverence for Beethoven at a very early stage, my own compositions have steered well clear of this unapproachable cosmos with the exception of my concert overture Con brio. The perhaps only link with the five quartets of the first cycle of quartets is the single-movement structure of the thirty-minute Quartet No. 6. The fundamental coordinates have otherwise been reset to zero. This is therefore also a ‘study’ in a literal sense. In the Quartet No. 6, I set out with a state of tonality displaying significant extensions whose centrifugal forces are barely containable. My focus is the detection of the inherent gravitation of tonality, including phenomenons such as tension/relaxation, suspension/resolution and fixation/deviation. From a formal aspect, the work is too experimental and unsentimental for explorations in a nostalgic-romantic sense. On the contrary, tonality or at least its fundamental assumptions are initially set down in the sense of a study or test assembly in order to permit subsequent experimentation, variation and the formulation of exceptions with the desire and firm conviction that it is possible to express something innovative and never previously heard with this seemingly exhausted fundamental material. I have been repeatedly astonished by the unfolding in the progression of this piece which has taken me to unknown locations, especially from a formal aspect. I am fascinated to see what forms the subsequent quartets in this ‘Beethoven study’ cycle will lead me to. The Quartet No. 6 has been created in close artistic and friendly cooperation with Anne-Sophie Mutter and she is the dedicatee of this work. Jörg Widmann, July 2019My quartets composed between 1997 and 2005 were conceived as an interconnected, self-contained cycle of works. The Quartet No. 6 composed fourteen years after No. 5 now opens a new cycle of quartets which will be devoted to an intense study of Ludwig van Beethoven’s unique and consummate artistry of quartet composition. Perhaps the only link with the five quartets of the first cycle is the single-movement structure of the almost thirty- minute Quartet No. 6. I am fascinated to see what forms the subsequent quartets in this ‘Beethoven study’ cycle will lead me to. Jörg Widmann.

Clarinet, zwei violins, viola and cello - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q50447 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 40 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q50447. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q50447). As a clarinetist frequently performing with string quartets, the clarinet quintet is a strange omission from Jörg Widmann’s catalogue of works. Up until now, his quintet programmes have included works primarily by Mozart, Brahms, Weber, and – in slightly altered or extended instrumentation – Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, alongside Widmann’s own sextet Fieberfantasie. This gap in his oeuvre is now finally filled with his first Clarinet Quintet which is sure to become a regular part of chamber music repertoire in the future.

Saxophone quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q569464 For saxophone quartet. Composed by Joerg Widmann. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 12'. Schott Music - Digital #Q569464. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q569464). Über die Jahre war mir das Genre Saxophonquartett eher fremd gewesen – bis ich das Kebyart Ensemble hörte. Die Homogenität und Virtuosität des Klangs dieser vier jungen katalanischen Saxophonisten machte mir Laune, für diese Besetzung zu schreiben. Das Resultat sind nun 7 Launen, also Capricci; kurze, höchst unterschiedliche Stücke, die die Möglichkeiten der vier Saxophone ausloten: vom eröffnenden chromatisch-vierteltönigen Ascensió über zwei Geräuschstücke, einen Walzer, 2 Choräle hin zur abschließenden Zirkusparade, vom heiligen Ernst bis zur überbordenden Komik.  - Jörg WidmannIn seinen 7 Capricci versucht Widmann, die Möglichkeiten des Saxophonquartetts auszuloten: vom eröffnenden chromatisch-vierteltönigen Ascensió über zwei Geräuschstücke, einen Walzer, 2 Choräle hin zur abschließenden Zirkusparade, vom heiligen Ernst bis zur überbordenden Komik.

Piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q11727 For piano. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 19 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11727. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11727). Widmann's Intermezzi are influenced by the famous cycles of Johannes Brahms (Op. 116 - Op. 119) which are cited quite frequently. In the preface of the edition, Widmann hints at its 'unsettling reduction and succinct brevity': 'Latently menacing structures of melancholy beauty emerge from almost nothing here. I wish to listen to this tone of the later Brahms in my own Intermezzi which are naturally (and with regard to their age) totally different. And thus pay tribute to Brahms, the love of my youth, who was then overshadowed by Schumann for a long time but is now flaring up anew. The secret after the sound, even the anticipating pre-sound, the space of the in-between is what, to me, constitutes the essence of music. Therefore: Intermezzi.'.

Violin and orchestra - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q20006 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: piano reduction with solo part. Downloadable, piano reduction with solo part. Duration 27 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q20006. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q20006). Jörg Widmann treats the violon at first as a vocal instrument, just in the tradition of the great violin concertos of the 19th century through to Alban Berg. But from the cantabile lines, often written 'sul tasto' and 'flautando', emerges again and again a virtuosity which is just as important to the genre and which, based on contemporary playing techniques, causes enticing problems for every player. As the orchestra is reduced to a demanding, yet rather accompanying function during the almost 30 minutes' duration, the piano reduction, already tried in Hamburg by the world premiere performer Christian Tetzlaff with Jörg Widmann on the piano, offers more than ever an opportunity for concert performances off the major stages.2 (2. auch Picc.) · 2 (2. auch Engl. Hr.) · 2 (2. auch Bassklar.) · 2 (2. auch Kfg.) - 4 · 0 · 0 · 0 - P. S. (Glsp. · Crot. [2 zwei-oktavige Sets] · 3 Beck. [h./m./t.] · Tamt. [m.] · gr. Tr. · Vibraslap) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. · Cel. (auch 2. gr. Tr.) - Str. (14 · 12 · 10 · 8 · 6 [alle mit 5. Saite H]).

Ensemble (or chamber orchestra) - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19866 For ensemble (or chamber orchestra). Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, study score. Duration 25 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19866. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19866). Jörg Widmann dedicated 'Freie Stücke' to his teacher Wolfgang Rihm on his fiftieth birthday in 2002. The ten pieces for mixed ensemble or orchestra are 'inspired by the wish for concentration and reduction. Each piece focusses on one sound phenomenon (pulse, shaking ground, noise, monophony, overtone structures, etc.). All parts are locked together, however. The ending of each piece is the beginning of the next one. Thus, something disparate becomes something continuously narrated.' (Jörg Widmann)2 (2. auch Picc.) · 1 (auch Engl. Hr.) · 2 (1. auch Bassklar., 2. auch Kb-Klar., beide auch Pedalp.) · 1 (auch Kfg. und Lotosfl.) - 1 · 1 (auch Lotosfl.) · 1 · 0 – S. (I: Crot. · Lotosfl. · Wassergong [kl. Tamt.] · Wassergong [c']· Tamt. · Xylorimba · gr. Tr. · Beck. · Glsp. · 5 Woodbl. · 2 Peking-Oper-Gongs · Trillerpf. · hohes Tomt. · 2 hohe Tamb. · Steel Drum · Rototoms [chrom.] · Buckelgongs; II: Chin. Beck. · 5 Woodbl. · Lotosfl. · Pedalpauke [auch m. schwerem 20-Zoll-Ride-Beck. m. Kuppe aufgelegt] · 5 Beck. · Xylorimba · Peitsche · gr. Tr. · Crot. · Trgl. · Glsp · Flex. · Guiro · Peking-Oper-Gong · Trillerpf. · Röhrengl.) (2 Spieler) - Str. (1 · 1 · 1 · 1 · 1 [Kb. mit 5. Saite H], oder chorisch).

Solo bassoon - Digital Download SKU: IZ.PDP337 Composed by Clare Grundman. Score and Parts. 3 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #PDP337. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.PDP337). 9 x 12 in inches.Several of Grundman's chamber music compositions were never made available during his lifetime. Among these are the Two Pieces for Bassoon, published now for the first time. The holograph score is included in the Clare Grundman Papers in the Special Collections of The Ohio State University Library of Music and Dance.

String quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q778629 (Beethoven-Study IV). Composed by Joerg Widmann. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 35 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q778629. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q778629). The 9th String Quartet forms the penultimate work in my Beethoven Study quartet cycle. Chronologically, however, it was composed after the 10th Quartet Cavatina. And indeed, when composing it, it felt like the conclusion of the cycle. While the 6th Quartet Studie über Beethoven, which opened the cycle, was still in one movement, the 7th in two and the 8th in three, this 9th Quartet is a four-movement work. The sacred musical number 9 inspired me to create an especially substantial and intense composition. The second movement, a Scherzo, and the fourth movement Allegro alla marcia have become simply gigantic in their dimensions and in the density of information and impulses in comparison to their historical models. This 9th quartet has a particular focus on Beethoven’s still unattainable Quartet in C# minor op. 131. The radical nature and modernity of this work are still burning issues for us today. As in the other quartets in the cycle, I have been amazed at the new forms which have evolved during my preoccupation with their historical models and the extent of previously unknown spiritual depths in my own music during the process of composition. While my study of Beethoven's symphonies in the orchestral piece Con brio led to the discovery of new tonal possibilities for the orchestra (the timpani treatment!) and the juxtaposition of Beethoven's choral fantasy with the Latin Dies irae in my ARCHE oratorio made it possible to develop new theological and thematic points of focus, in the string quartet cycle it is above all the development and discovery of new forms that could only emerge through the study of Beethoven's quartets. Jörg Widmann.

String Quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6173 2nd string quartet. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 16 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6173. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6173). My 2nd string quartet is one single slow movement. The piece does not directly reflect Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words but I would not have been able to write it without knowing that work. The movements in Haydn's quartets (except the final earthquake) are slow movements of shocking forcefulness. What makes the work even more unsettling for me is the relaxed and cheerful acceptance of death (the 'smile' of the A major pizzicato thirds!). When I made myself familiar with the subject matter of crucifixion I discovered that terms like 'walking' and 'the last walk' were most important to me. My piece starts at the final stage of this experience. It contains a number of lost sounds, phrases of futility which come from nowhere and lead to nowhere. The horrifying rubbing and sanding of skin and wood become the 'theme’ of the piece which is combined with tonal, choral-like melodies. I am interested in how to make noises no longer symbolize desolation and tonal phrases no longer represent confidence. - Jörg Widmann.

Picc. (auch Bassfl), Klar. in A (auch Bassklar. in B), Vl. (mit Eisendämpfer), S. (24 Crotales [chrom. c'''-c''''']), Klav. (mit 5 Schrauben und Metallbolzen präpariert) soprano and 5 instruments - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q47142 Für Sopran und fünf Instrumente. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, score and parts. Duration 9 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q47142. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q47142). Vocalise.Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens Cultural Program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is restricted to vocalises and reflects the poetic text without directly quoting it. Experimental and intense sound constellations as well as the expressive vocalises characterize this early composition.

Cello - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q46843 Concerto for violoncello and orchestra no. 1 in c major, Hob. VIIb:1 by Joseph Haydn. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: solo part. Cadenza. Downloadable, Solo part. Op Band 13. Duration 6 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q46843. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q46843). Key: C major.Jörg Widmann wrote his cadenzas on Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 for the cellist Jan Vogler in 2002. These cadenzas add a virtuoso texture to Haydn's spirited composition. This series, unique in classical music literature, focusses on the tradition of solo cadenzas which has grown over centuries. Cadenzas are presented of well-known classical and romantic instrumental concertos, written by important composers and soloists of our time.