My Five Ballades for Clarinet and Piano op. 22o and the world premiere of the Study for Solo Clarinet "Lo-Shu" op. 29 I No. 2 will be the focus of an exciting concert to be held at the Arnold Schönberg Center on September 26, 2023: two works that contrast strongly in their layout and emerged from fundamentally different musical concepts.
If the ballads follow more a romantic concept of "narrative music" as developed by Chopin, Schumann or Mendelssohn, the clarinet study follows more a modern architectural-mathematical principle that emerged from the study of the Lo-shu, the only magic square of order 3. In doing so, both works make use of special part-writing techniques, which situate them in the realm of the New music. Due to their density, size and compactness, they also represent an important contribution to the clarinet literature, although the latest playing techniques are used only very sparingly.
Its performers Stefan Neubauer (clarinet) and Johannes Piirto (piano) are very familiar with my work and have already earned great merits for its dissemination.
The sheet music of the Ballades op. 22o is published by Edition Contemp Art (Verlagsgruppe Hermann) and distributed by Schott (order option).