Partitions à télécharger par Alexander Goehr

My piece is subtitled 'Homage to Haydn'. Why? Because it is modelled on Haydn's Variations in F minor/major. But modelled does not imply pastiche or imitation. From Brahms onwards (if not before) ther...

Spielpartitur - Sprecher, Schlaginstrumente, Orgel und Klavier oder Klavier 4hd.

Spielpartitur - Sprecher, Schlaginstrumente, Orgel und Klavier oder Klavier 4hd.

gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Trompete in D

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

Largo Siciliano is a slow dance movement in a simple metre comprising a sequence of variations, separated by a refrain; a single idea is continually reworked and recast. This idea, or little siciliano...

Overture was written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Countess of Munster Trust at Glyndebourne

gemischter Chor mit Orgel oder Klavier oder Violoncello

Warngedichte' (Poèmes de mise en garde) d'Alexander Goehr est une composition sur les poèmes du même nom de son ami, le poète Erich Fried. Cette nouvelle édition fait découvrir l'œuvre, écrite en 1967...

The Adagio refers directly to Mozart's Adagio h-Moll für Klavier KV 540. Goehr's Adagio at first follows the harmonic and motivic events of the original, while the repetitions of the two parts allow l...

Goehr's new work for orchestra, based on Bach's chorale Durch Adams Fall ist alles Verderbt, is the latest in the composer's oeuvre to reflect on great music of the past. My own composition might be d...

Frauenchor (SSA)

Gemischter Chor, Schlagzeug, Klavier Duett, 2 Klarinette und Violoncello (ad lib.) - Instrumental-Stimmen zum gesamten Zyklus

Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette (B), Fagott, Horn, Trompete, Posaune und Kontrabass - Studienpartitur

This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes 'Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the...