Jörg Widmann Composer   Clarinetist   Conductor

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In the Labyrinth - The Musician Jörg Widmann

A film by Holger Preuße - Germany, 2022, BR

Clarinetist, conductor, and composer Jörg Widmann is working on a commission. He is to write a large-scale trumpet concerto ("Towards Paradise") for the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The film accompanies him on this labyrinthine journey from the first drafts to the world premiere.

Alla danza tedesca - Ceremonial Address

Beethoven-Haus Bonn, 7 Jan 2025

The Beethoven-Haus acquires the only original manuscript of the 4th movement of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 130. Ceremonial address by Jörg Widmann.

Beautiful Passages

Opening Lecture Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 2017

On musical moments of the past and present. Lecture with musical examples on the piano.

Book Release

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Florian Henri Besthorn

ECHO · SPIEGEL · LABYRINTH.
Der musikalische Körper im Werk Jörg Widmanns

2018

The monograph is the first designed to cover the complete works of Jörg Widmann (*1973)...

Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN 978-3-8260-6299-5

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Felix Schmidt

GOTTESKINDER UND STÖRENFRIEDE

2020

Felix Schmidt came as close to many musicians, conductors and composers as hardly any other journalist...

Publisher: Schwabe Basel Berlin
ISBN 978-3-7965-4157-5

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