Eduard Pütz

Overcoming the boundaries between 'serious' and entertaining music was what mattered to the musician Eduard Pütz (1911-2000). His compositions therefore include stylistic features of jazz and pop musi...

Overcoming the boundaries between 'serious' and entertaining music was what mattered to the musician Eduard Pütz (1911-2000). His compositions therefore include stylistic features of jazz and pop musi...

The composer Eduard Pütz (1911-2000) from Cologne was influenced by the composition technique of Hindemith and Stravinsky, yet he also admired Messiaen and valued the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. A...

Eduard Pütz is concerned with crossing the boundaries between so-called 'serious' and light music. His 'Blues Fantasy for 6 cellos' is eminently suitable for this purpose, being expressive as well as...

Eduard Pütz was inspired to write this piano piece by the poem 'Hälfte des Lebens' by Friedrich Hölderlin. In this composition, the two thoughts of the fullness of life (youth) and the expectation of...

Composed in 1976, the piano work 'Litaniae alla cinque' of the composer from Cologne refers to the famous fifth chapter of the Epistle of James in which the vanity of riches is described in drastic wo...

Blockflöte (wechselnd Sopranino-Blockflöte, Sopran-Blockflöte, Alt-Blockflöte, Tenor-Blockflöte, Bass-Blockflöte), Celesta und Gitarre

Seit jeher gehören berühmte Requiem-Vertonungen zu den großen interpretatorischen Herausforderungen im Bereich der Chorliteratur. In seiner modernen Komposition spiegelt der rheinische Komponist Eduar...

Seit jeher gehören berühmte Requiem-Vertonungen zu den großen interpretatorischen Herausforderungen im Bereich der Chorliteratur. In seiner modernen Komposition spiegelt der rheinische Komponist Eduar...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)

Overcoming the boundaries between 'serious' and entertaining music was what mattered to the musician Eduard Pütz (1911-2000). His compositions therefore include stylistic features of jazz and pop musi...

100th birthday on 13 February 2011Pütz' intention to bridge the gap between two musical worlds - of 'serious' and of 'light' music - preoccupied him for much of his life. Apart from contemporary music...

The nature of jazz has its roots in improvisation. The Jazz Sonata contains written-out pieces which correspond with improvised figures and formulae of jazz, while at the same time combining specific...

Overcoming the boundaries between 'serious' and entertaining music was what mattered to the musician Eduard Pütz (1911-2000). His compositions therefore include stylistic features of jazz and pop musi...

The composer Eduard Pütz (1911-2000) studied composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Heinrich Lemacher, Hermann Schroeder, and Kaspar Roeseling. Later he worked as a teacher of theory at th...