Dieter Schnebel

Written in the 1970s, Dieter Schnebel's arrangements of the Contrapuncti I, VI and XI from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue have long since been considered classics of contemporary choral musi...

Premiered in 1992 at Donaueschingen, the 'Sinfonie X' with more than 2 hours duration could be considered an 'Opus terminum'. The movements which can be performed individually are like an historical d...

This string quartet by a grand master of the German avant-garde combines a decidedly traditional four-movement structure with experimental situations in the concert hall. In various sections the perfo...

It is not only with regard to the instrumentation that the string quintet Sonanzen (a play on the words 'consonance' and 'dissonance') follows the famous example of Schubert, and even Wagner's Tristan...

In this work Schnebel attempts to apply the idea of the Baroque canon - as exemplified in Bach's 'Art of Fugue' - to modern concepts of tonal colouring. The 'Motu proprio' of the 7 mixed groups of orc...

Melodie und Begleitung (Singstimme und Begleitinstrument, Melodieinstrument und Begleitinstrument oder singender Instrumentalist).

Variable Besetzung (Melodieinstrumente) 5-12 Spieler (Bläser, Streicher oder gemischtes Ensemble).

Frauenstimme, Saxophon, Klavier und Schlagzeug. Schlagzeugbesetzung: Drum Set (Becken, kleine Trommel, große Trommel), Röhrenglocken, Tamtam, Guiro, Triangel, Waldteufel, Gong, chinesisches Becken).

Mild und leise...': does that not come from 'Tristan'? Ingeborg Bachmann's drafts of poems dating from her year of crisis in 1963 are in fact teeming with quotations from Wagner operas which form a ra...

Die Schulmusik von Dieter Schnebel, Wegbereiter des Fluxus und inzwischen einer der Altmeister der Avantgarde, ist längst ein nicht allein pädagogischer Klassiker. In Ergänzung zu den lieferbaren Ausg...

Museumsstücke is how Dieter Schnebel entitled his two collections of experimental music theatre pieces which he sees 'almost as sound images, acoustic counterparts of what is hanging on museum walls'....