Benjamin Schweitzer

The text of this 'small sound piece' combines material from Petrarch's well-known Sonnet No. 132 and its Baroque adaptation by Martin Opitz, alternating between - and sometimes mixing - Italian and Ge...

L'œuvre est un scherzo aux doigts d'araignée qui traduit le concept d'"ironie romantique" dans un langage tonal moderne. De mystérieuses créatures vont et viennent et courent sur place avant de s'inte...

The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...

The image of a landscape in April, freed from winter's hold, with its mixture of barrenness and still dull colours, characterises the basic tone of this piece. Melodic elements and fast virtuoso figur...

Benjamin Schweitzer présente sa première oeuvre pour cette formation. Aimant expérimenter, il ajoute la sonorité du piano au caractère spécifique des instruments à vent. L'oeuvre est structurée en deu...

The title hidden tracks is ambiguous. First of all, the piece is almost throughout imagined as 'multi-track', with layers (in the sense of sound tracks) that partly overlay each other, partly suddenly...

maverick I [noise] est la première pièce d'une série de cinq compositions solo pour contrebasse. Le sous-titre 'noise' indique que de nombreux éléments bruyants - du bruit d'air extrêmement faible aux...

These attributes mentioned here: Ease -Swiftness - Precision - Vividness - Complexity - are used by Benjamin Schweitzer as signposts for putting the pop into the weasel in his solo violin part. Out of...

Le titre peut se lire comme une indication de tonalité ou de genre mais aussi comme une allusion à une humeur légèrement dépressive. La sonate de Mozart en la mineur, qui aurait pu être créée dans la...

The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this tech...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

The cycle of 27 lithographs on the Apocalypse of St. John created by Max Beckmann in his Dutch exile in 1941 inspired Benjamin Schweitzer to compose 27 musical 'sheets' as well. 'The pictures are fill...

Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) - Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These...

The text of this 'small sound piece' combines material from Petrarch's well-known Sonnet No. 132 and its Baroque adaptation by Martin Opitz, alternating between - and sometimes mixing - Italian and Ge...

L'œuvre est un scherzo aux doigts d'araignée qui traduit le concept d'"ironie romantique" dans un langage tonal moderne. De mystérieuses créatures vont et viennent et courent sur place avant de s'inte...

The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...