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68 items, 4 pages
Eötvös, Peter: Adventures of the Dominant Seventh Chord
for viola solo
Setting: Viola
Publisher: Schott
Item number: VAB105
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for violin solo
Setting: Violin
Publisher: Schott
Item number: VLB231
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for double bass solo and string orchestra with accordion
Publisher: Schott
Item number: KBB22
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Eötvös, Peter: Dances of the Brush-Footed Butterfly
Setting: Piano
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED21409
Dance of the Butterflies: Brush-footed butterflies dance in a very special way with their four special legs. Eötvös transfers their miniature dances to the keyboard and sends a greeting from his garden. Beautiful music, not easy to play, sometimes in three systems.
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Eötvös, Peter: DoReMi
Violin Concerto No. 2
Setting: Violin and orchestra
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED21594
Die Struktur musikalischer Hierarchien in drei Sätzen: ''Do'' für die westliche, ''Mi'' für die östliche, pentatonische Musikkultur, ''Re'' im Wechsel. Eötvös baut in seinem zweiten Violinkonzert komplexe Weltbilder, gewidmet ist das Werk der Geigerin Midori.
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Eötvös, Peter: Encore
'There's a taxi waiting for Chekhov, but he'd rather go on foot.''
Setting: String Quartet
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED9930
Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actually did not make his decision easy for himself” 'Encore' is dedicated to Peter…
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Eötvös, Peter: Erdenklavier - Himmelklavier
Version I/II
Setting: Piano
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED9738
'I often played Berio's Erdenklavier in my childhood, which is why I wrote this short epigram to take leave of the Maestro and Friend who is playing on a Himmelklavier now. From 1979 I worked many times with Berio in IRCAM and in several festivals in Italy which were led by Berio…
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Eötvös, Peter: Five Early Piano Pieces
Five Early Piano Pieces
Setting: Piano
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED22526
Peter Eötvös completed his early neo-classical Hungarian piano pieces at the age of 17. Now published in one volume, they were created when he studied composition at the Budapest Music Academy between 1959 and 1961, shortly before taking up a scholarship to study conducting…
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for girl's choir (SSMezAA) a cappella
Publisher: Schott
Item number: SKR20077
This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer: for the summer, for the autumn fruits. But the first winds bring along the fear…
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Not available Eötvös, Peter: Hommage ŕ Domenico Scarlatti
for horn and string orchestra
Publisher: Schott
Item number: COR29
In his novel Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel Garcia Márquez mentions Domenico Scarlatti as a music teacher. I was so delighted with this idea that I played through all his 555 sonatas. I could not get his sensitive and dramatic music out of my mind. I selected some passages…
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Eötvös, Peter: Joyce
for clarinet and string quartet
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED22985
As most of my instrumental pieces, Joyce is also based on a literary source. My first string quartet (Korrespondenz) transferred the correspondence between Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at times word by word, to the world of music, whose strong dramatic character effectively…
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Eötvös, Peter: Lectures différentes
for saxophone quartet
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED22402
I got the idea of writing this piece during a rehearsal with Klaus Michael Grüber I saw in Berlin. Three actors were rehearsing a scene of Kleist. At the end, Grüber said: '” now once again in a different way.' The text was identical but the interpretation was completely different…
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Eötvös, Peter: Lisztomania
for piano four hands
Setting: Piano Duet
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED23145
Chapter 11 of James Joyce's Ulysses is a real treasure trove of existing and invented words and names, each word and name triggers off a whole series of associations, images, stories and sounds - particularly when the reader is a Hungarian composer who comes across the phrase…
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Eötvös, Peter: Molto tranquillo
for piccolo (doubling alto flute), violoncello and piano
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED22560
Composed for the 90th birthday of György Kurtág, the only five-minute trio is characterized by a condensed, contemporary spirit of playing. The change between piccolo and alto flute, magical sound surfaces of the piano and the scordatura of the cello again and again lead…
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Not available Eötvös, Peter: para Paloma
for violin solo (in scordatura)
Setting: Violin
Publisher: Schott
Item number: VLB211
In this short composition, the G and A strings are tuned a half note higher. Due to the extensive use of open strings and natural harmonics, the piece is perfectly suitable as an introduction to scordatura playing.
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for cornet in Eb (flugelhorn in B)
Publisher: Schott
Item number: TR32
The idea of playing two instruments alternately in a single work came from Clark Terry whom I saw in a video. Alongside his virtuosity in alternating between the two instruments, I found the contrast in tonal colouring an interesting concept, almost as if a violinist changed…
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Eötvös, Peter: Seven
(Memorial for the Columbia Astronauts)
Setting: Violin and orchestra
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED20258
Eötvös wrote this piece in memory of the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003. The number 7 determines the musical, rhythmic and formal structure of the work: 49 musicians are divided into seven groups, and as well as the solo violin…
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Not available Eötvös, Peter: Speaking Drums
Four poems for percussion solo and orchestra
Setting: Percussion and orchestra
Publisher: Schott
Item number: BAT56
Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the opposite way: It begins with the percussionist speaking nonsensically, the emphasis…
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