Partituras para violín

The three pieces that form op 4, Idylle, Pastourelle and Virelai, were published in 1883 with French titles to add glamour and appeal. All three works feature long, attractive melodies with well-devel...

2 Stimmen je mit Partnerstimme in Kleindruck.

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...

Eine etwa 10-minütige Parodie rasch folgender Episoden, geistreich miteinander verwoben zu einer >Antihelden

Parodies often play a liberating role in a composer's output: they can serve as loosening exercises between the earnest efforts of constantly searching in the "mine" for new, noble metals of musical i...

A virtuosic encore piece meant to be performed after great violin concertos, written for my fellow student and friend Rainer Küchl, who retired in the fall of 2016 after serving 45 years as concertmas...

This short piece is an elaborated concert version of one of the miniatures from the 2nd volume of the violin method with highly complex, increasing rhythms and meters.

The "duel" between two violins, which could also be staged, begins with a dispute that is musically represented by several interwoven micropolyphonic formations. Then, as in Eugene Onegin's pistol due...

Ständchen is the German word for "Serenade," which is related to the word "Stehen," which means "Standing." Therefore, I invented the word "Sitzchen," which would mean "to serenade from a sitting posi...

The experience of a “bise” (i.e. a cold wind down from Mont Blanc covering Lake Geneva with ice crystals) on a starry Christmas night became the initial impulse for this little composition. An arrange...

21 imaginative duos tell of evenings by the fireside and brilliant autumnal colours, of crooks, wild chickens and long-forgotten times… The book is meant to be for both violin and piano pupils alike w...