Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Jörg Widmann
Born: June 19th, 1973
Country of origin: Germany
Upcoming:
Eleven Humoresques
May 30th, 2012 | Robert-Schumann-Saal - Düsseldorf - Germany
Five Fragments
June 15th, 2012 | Musikhochschule, Kammermusiksaal - Stuttgart - Germany
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News
04/30/2012
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Zirkustänze
"Volatile, energised and expressive" are words used to describe the music of composer Jörg Widmann (Tom Service, The Guardian, 2009). Zirkustänze (Circus Dances), Widmann’s latest work for piano, will be premièred by Andràs Schiff on 2 May at Carnegie Hall. This is the composer’s ...
04/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2012 online
A featured theme in this years Salzburg Whitsun Festival is ‘Queen Cleopatra’. The legendary, beautiful Queen, shrouded in mystery has been the subject of literature and arts. Rodion Shchedrin chose the scene of Cleopatra’s death from her dramatic life for a work commissioned by the festival. This ...
04/11/2012
World première: Teufel Amor by Jörg Widmann in Vienna
After the rejection of his drama Fiesco in Mannheim, Schiller offered his poem Teufel Amor to a bookseller in Frankfurt for 25 guilders. As the bookseller only offered him 18 guilders for the poem, ‘[Schiller] preferred to remain destitute rather than wasting his poetry on a skinflint who was unappreciative ...
04/10/2012
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Teufel Amor
The German poet Friedrich Schiller has been a source of inspiration for many of the great composers and now Jörg Widmann joins these ranks with his orchestral work Teufel Amor . Taking its title from Schiller’s lost poem of the same name the world premiere of Teufel Amor will be given ...
03/06/2012
Peter Eötvös Curates Toronto Symphony’s New Creations Festival Featuring Jörg Widmann
March 1 marked the beginning of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2012 New Creations Festival, this year curated by none other than Hungarian new music pillar Peter Eötvös. A distinct reflection of the composer’s omnivorous tastes and inspirations, the eighth annual New Creations Festival boasts an ...
02/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 2/2012 online
Hymns and their close relations odes and dithyrambs provide artistic expression for mankind’s desire to celebrate and sublimate existence, liberating us from the limitations of everyday existence and lifting us towards universal and even transcendental principles. In ancient times, the hymn ...
12/06/2011
World première: Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch by Jörg Widmann
When Kent Nagano told the composer Jörg Widmann about his idea of presenting the original programme marking the establishment of the Musikalische Akademie of the Bayerische Staatsorchester (December 1811) in a concert in 2011, but with the inclusion of a new contemporary commission, Widmann responded ...
10/24/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 6/2011 online
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA As orchestras continue to focus on innovation in the concert hall, chamber orchestra repertoire is increasingly becoming a fixture in concert programming. Perhaps one reason for this is clear: a smaller, more nimble ensemble opens up endless possibilities for alternative ...
10/13/2011
Widmann's Flûte en suite Streaming on WCLV
The Cleveland Orchestra’s performance of Jörg Widmann's Flûte en suite is now streaming on wclv.com. The concerto had been commissioned by the orchestra for soloist Joshua Smith and been premeired in May 2011.
10/11/2011
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Con brio
Jörg Widmann's striking concert overture has played its way through concert halls around the globe, celebrating one success after another. In the three years since it’s acclaimed world premiere, the work has received interpretations by many of the world’s leading conductors, and its remarkable ...
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