Barbara Heller

Each piece of 'Klangblumen' has its own special focus, such as a certain interval, a specific playing technique, a uniform rhythm, or a general tone colour.The instructions on playing technique and ae...

The anthology 'Klangspuren' by Barbara Heller contains 76 works for piano which have been written for the Barbara Heller Piano Competition. Each title has its own personal message: Music can show an i...

Die Sammlung Klangspuren von Barbara Heller umfasst 76 Klavierwerke, die für den Barbara Heller-Klavierwettbewerb entstanden sind. Jeder Titel hat seine persönliche Aussage: Die Musik kann ein Bild au...

Barbara Heller opens a new world of etudes by combining finger technique with vocal quality. Pianist and teacher Irina Schwertfeger presents all these studies in progressive order from easy to difficu...

The piece was written as one of the Project 250 pieces for Beethoven, which was initiated by Susanne Kessel in the lead up to 2020. 250 new piano pieces are being written by composers all over the wor...

Das musikalische Gegensatzpaar Freude und Trauer hat seine Verbindung durch die Verwendung der beiden Intervalle Sekunde und Septe. Damals realisierte ich musikalische Einfälle gerne zusammen mit eine...

More than 50 little waltzes for piano, easily playable in lessons or for the player's own pleasure. The composer has grouped the pieces according to the weekdays, wishing for the lively form of the wa...

'White Keys - Black Keys' was written by Barbara Heller in December 2003 for a pianist who likes to improvise and loves a certain freedom in a work. Although an order of the parts is pre-determined in...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Barbara Hellers Klangblumen gibt es neben der Ausgabe für Klavier (Schott ED 20374) und Violine und Klavier (Schott VLB 136) nun auch für Violine und Harfe.Jedes der 14 Stücke weist einen besonderen S...

This composition is based on the song 'Lai, Lai, Lai' written by a group of intellectuals who were executed in Teheran in 1973 during the reign of the Shah. A song of the Resistance, it depicts a moth...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Patchwork, das 3. Streichquartett von Barbara Heller (Schott ED 20775), gibt es jetzt auch in der Version für Streichorchester. 'Patchwork' macht Freude mit seinem heiteren, luftigen und leichten Char...

Barbara Heller hat diesen Choral dem Andenken von Elke Mascha Blankenburg (1943-2013) gewidmet. Frau Heller sagte im Gespräch vor der Uraufführung über sie: 'Sie hatte ein offenes Herz, eine äußerst z...

A treasure house with organ pieces by female composers - new edition in the series 'Frauen komponieren'.Content: Elisabeth Stirling (1819-95), Movement - Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929), Andante and Larghe...

The quartet 'do-re-mi-bassoon' was written by the composer Barbara Heller in 2009 for the bassoon quartet of the same name of the Frankfurt Youth Music Ensemble. Heller developed a memorable motif fro...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Die zeitgenössische Kritik, die sich erstaunt darüber zeigte, dass solch ein kraftvolles Stück von einer Frau stammte, ordnete dieses Trio in die Mendelssohn-Nachfolge ein, was in mancher Hinsicht dur...

The 'Hörbilder' (Sound Pictures) was edited by Irith Gabriely, who has arranged all of the pieces with rich musical diversity. Individual pieces can be played separately or easily combined into small...

Composer Barbara Heller has been challenging the artistic imagination for many years by using a limited amount of musical material in her works. An example of this approach can be seen in her work as...

This collection tells little stories on the piano, written for some very young pianists. Each title sets a musical and technical challenge. Individual pieces may be put together to tell a longer story...