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 I am interested in how to make noises no longer symbolize desolation and tonal phrases no longer represent confidence.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.

Clarinet in Bb, violin and piano - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q42483 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 12 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q42483. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q42483). 'Should muses be silent while the guns speak?' asks Jörg Widmann, who was only 20 years old when composing this piece, with his Trio for Clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, a musical essay on three tones.

6 voices (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone, Bass) - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q47177 For 6 voices (SMezCtTBarB). Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: Sheet music. Schott Chamber Choir. Downloadable. Duration 18 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q47177. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q47177). Vocalises.Jörg Widmann komponierte die Signale für sechs Stimmen anlässlich der Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2003 ohne die Verwendung eines konkreten Textes. Die einzelnen Stimmen behandeln rein phonetisches Material. Allerdings tritt das quasi theatrale Moment einer fast rituellen Zusammenkunft der sechs Vokalisten hinzu: Zunächst objektive Zeichen, Signale wie Amplituden-, Linienverläufe, Frequenzen, weißes Rauschen werden zu Alarm-, und Sirenensignalen, zu Morsezeichen, Störgeräuschen sowie existenziellen Schreien.

Violin, cello and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6048 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, score and parts. Duration 30 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6048. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6048). This Piano Trio Passacaglia is the “junior� companion piece to my Cello Concerto Dunkle Saiten [Dark Strings], or more precisely to the concerto’s large-dimensional introductory section with the indication “Feierlich, schreitend� [solemnly, striding]. What in the Cello concerto then inescapably culminates in a catastrophe remains in this composition ostensibly largely conflict-free. This is in fact perhaps one of my most peaceful and conflict-free compositions; it consists of half an hour of almost exclusively tonal progressions. Here, passacaglia (stepping dance!) is taken literally: the step progressions themselves become the subject of the work. This also includes pausing, not being able to progress, feeling one’s way, stumbling and taking compulsive steps forward.As familiar as the harmonic surface of the structure appears, for me the natural adaptation of the musical flow was new to a similar degree. This is my attempt to produce a linear tonal band (a horizontal) exclusively with the aid of harmonic – i.e. vertical – progressions.- Jörg Widmann.

String quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q778702 String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven-Study V). Composed by Joerg Widmann. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 16 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q778702. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q778702). I consider Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 130 with its Grosse Fuge as the pinnacle of all quartets. In each of the four movements, Beethoven succeeds in re-inventing the archetypal movement forms with equal intensity, meaning that they are consequently nothing like what they once were. My Beethoven Studies (String Quartets 6-10) explore the cosmos of this so very unique quartet to a greater or lesser degree, and in explicit form in this concluding quartet of the cycle. The Cavatina from op. 130 is one of the most emotional movements ever written by Beethoven. Although some of the original material can be recognised in my own Cavatina, I consider it as one of the most personal and freest movements of my entire quartet cycle. This is a free form of ardent singing and flowing, marking the conclusion of the cycle which grappled so vehemently and sensuously with the cosmos of Beethoven’s quartets. Everything hovers … into the open … into free space. Jörg Widmann.

Soprano voice and string quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6413 5th String Quartet with Soprano. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, score and parts. Duration 25 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6413. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6413). Latin • German.Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a finale, wants to remain a deliberately tentative 'Versuch über die Fuge', through it's dialogue with the singing voice's quotation from the Bible: 'That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? - Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas!'.

Violin - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q46796 Concerto for violin and orchestra no. 3 in G major KV 216 by W. A. Mozart. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: single sheet. Cadenza. Downloadable, Separate edition. Op. 12. Duration 2 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q46796. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q46796). In 2006, Jörg Widmann composed these noble, deliberately simple cadenzas for Mozart's Violin Concerto as a commission from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and violinist Isabelle van Keulen. In this series, unique in classical music literature, cadenzas are presented of well-known classical and romantic instrumental concertos, written by important composers and soloists of our time.

2 pianos - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q771527 For two pianos. Composed by Joerg Widmann. Downloadable, Performance score. Duration 17'. Schott Music - Digital #Q771527. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q771527). After an early mini piece for this instrumentation, Bunte Blätter (Coloured Leaves) is my first real piece for two pianos. It has become a collection of highly diverse and multifaceted pieces and forms, ranging from Walzer (Waltz) to Danse macabre, from Fanfare to Zirkusparade (Circus Parade). The fact that the interpreters of the world premiere, Arthur and Lucas Jussen, are siblings, may and should be felt in the teasingly affectionate Fangspiel (Game of Tag) in which the two pianists sometimes deliberately play past each other. The collection is completed by Rätsel (Riddle) for Peter Sloterdijk's 75th birthday, a small, sphinx-like piece for the librettist of my Babylon opera. - Jörg Widmann.

Piano - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q19074 Suite for Piano. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 20 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19074. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19074). My dark and shadowy piano Intermezzi are followed by these Zirkustänze [circus dances]. They are naturally – on a superficial level – simpler, more cheerful, brighter and also more garish, drastic and playful than my previous composition, but my objective in these dances involving the protagonists of a circus is a simple but profound and omnipresent truth: there is a constant real danger that the tightrope walker will fall. On the subject of our childlike amazement as an observer: it is not our amazement which is false, but the fact that we adults think we are no longer allowed to feel this emotion! And although the tears of the sad clown are artificial, they are nevertheless highly realistic. The Zirkustänze are conceived as a cycle, but individual movements can also be performed separately, for example as encore pieces. These dances are dedicated in friendship to András Schiff. Jörg Widmann.

Piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q42325 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 30 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q42325. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q42325). This piece was composed by Jörg Widmann for the Italian pianist Irene Russo in 2003. Consisting only of sharp pulse patterns and their lingering sound, it explores the tonal possibilities of the whole instrument in a fascinating way.

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.

Flute (with obligatoryer bassflute and gong) - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q46991 For flute (with bass flute obbligato and gong). Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: single sheet. Il Flauto traverso. Downloadable, Separate edition. Duration 7 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q46991. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q46991). Jörg Widmann composed the three-movement work in 2016 in memory of the Swiss flautist Aurèle Nicolet. The world premiere took place as part of a concert in Freiburg which was dedicated to Nicolet who had died shortly before; the interpreter was Emmanuel Pahud, one of his pupils. The versatility of the work shows, for example, in its obbligato instrumentation of bass flute and bossed gong – both instruments require only one additional player.

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.

Countertenor, clarinet (also bass clarinet), cello and accordion - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q21550 For countertenor, clarinet (also bass clarinet), cello and accordion. Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 7 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q21550. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q21550). German.Auch nach ihrer Beendigung lassen mich die Schlusszeilen des Skorpionmenschen aus meiner Babylon-Oper nicht los: er tötet die Illusion in sich (symbolisch richtet der Skorpion seinen Stachel auf sich selbst), um dann in seiner höheren Form, dem Adler, erneut geboren zu werden; Stich, Erkenntnis, Metamorphose, Flug. In komprimierter Form wollte ich diese Situation und diese Zeilen noch einmal komplett anders komponieren: anstatt für großes Orchester nun für Countertenor und drei Instrumente, mit vollkommen anderem Material und Gesten-Vokabular. - Jörg Widmann, im Januar 2013.

Clarinet in A, cello and piano - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q18645 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, score and parts. Duration 9 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q18645. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q18645). This is one of the early works by which the clarinettest Jörg Widmann also made himself a name as a composer. The form develops from the – at first only tentative – interaction of the three instruments. Sound-sensitive and eruptive moments alternate unexpectedly. Between 'jazzy-secco' and the 'Spieluhr' solo, the piano announces the passage of time: '12 Glockenschläge Mitternacht'.