René Staar

In the Duo A8 for violin and accordion, written for the accordionist (and professor at Linz Bruckner University) Alfred Melichar, the flowing interweaving of the violin's timbre with that of the accor...

The Duo A10 for violin and trumpet attempts to develop an idea in two different ways. The form is determined by a phrase consisting of two halves—one of formulation, and one of development—which occur...

xWritten for Vienna Philharmonic tuba player Ronald Pisarkiewicz, Duo A11 for violin and tuba is a parody of baroque-classical stereotypes of musical form. The bass tuba is used as a quasi-pedal point...

In the Duo A12 for violin and oboe a musical process is initiated which, beginning with the unison fusion of the two timbres, leads into a sonic and articulatory spectrum of oboe staccatos and violin...

The Duo A13 for violin and harp exhibits a rather differentiated rhythmic construction. The middle section, whose harp arpeggios have a classical effect, is preceded and followed by sections where the...

Several tempo relations structure the rhythmically determined and strophically arranged Duo A14 for violin and membranophones (percussion: bongos, snare drums, tomtoms, bass drum). Variable meters off...

Duo A15, the last of the first volume of Gemini Duos, for violin and bassoon is, like the Duo A3 for violin and viola, conceived very melodically, whereby the roles appear to be traditionally assigned...

Fifth Mold for mezzo soprano (vocalise), B-flat clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello, accordion, and piano Thomas Alva Edison: inventor and symbol of the idea of progress in the history of mankind. The M...

Fifth Mold for mezzo soprano (vocalise), B-flat clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello, accordion, and piano Thomas Alva Edison: inventor and symbol of the idea of progress in the history of mankind. The M...

The Duo A1 for violin and flute was written for Wolfgang Schulz, the Vienna Philharmonic's principal flutist. A new kind of rhythm resulting entirely from the relations of tempi as well as the selecti...

The two songs based on texts by Else Lasker-Schüler op. 20 I were written between 1987 and 1995 for the soprano Donna Robin. They are settings of two tender poems by the famous German-Jewish poet, who...

The two songs based on texts by Else Lasker-Schüler op. 20 I were written between 1987 and 1995 for the soprano Donna Robin. They are settings of two tender poems by the famous German-Jewish poet, who...

Originally one of the numbers from the accordion cycle Metaphysical Jazz op. 22q bis, the same harmonic material is once again used, so to speak, for a "2nd reading" for harp, although in its design i...

A stay of almost five years in the Swiss UN city Geneva led to the conception of the composer’s first large-scale cyclical project, the “Divertissements Suisses”. The first of these “Divertissements”...

Five ballads that could not be more different from each other make up this half-hour melting pot of compositional ideas and creative development. A tribute to Chopin, an "American Railroad Ballad," Sc...

A short three-bar rhythmic motive dotted eighth, eighth, two sixteenths, eighth, dotted eighth twisted and turned in all directions. Examined more carefully, the motive features note values that short...

The title of the work is taken from the poem "Finsternis" [Darkness] by Paul Celan, written in 1941. The poem speaks of painful loss in times of violence, and culminates in the line that was chosen as...

Duo A2 for violin and cello was written for Franz Bartolomey, the principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic. The piece is divided into various phases whose individual characteristics are identified...

The formal component of the Duo A3 for violin and viola is characterized by a film-like structural concept—which is why the three individual parts are also referred to as "cuts." Each of these cuts re...

The Duo A9 for violin and double bass plays with tempo relations within a rhythmically complex structure and thus generates an extreme intensification and transformation of character whereby syncopati...

The Halbthurn Capriccioso is dedicated to the Austrian composer Robert Schollum (1913-1987), who was a tireless campaigner for contemporary Austrian music. He established his own series on Austrian ra...

The Epilogue develops from the completed material of Just an Accident? op. 9 as an attempt to compress the musical material of the large piece into a miniature. The Epilogue expresses the will of life...

The first volume of the Gemini Duos by René Staar contains some the most unusual settings in classical music. The obligatory part in all of these 15 pieces is the violin, while the other part is alway...

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