Nikolaus Matthes

Markuspassion – Welcome address on the German premiere in Göttingen
For March 7 and 8, 2026

Markuspassion – Texts on the video episodes
March 2025 to February 2026

Markuspassion – Cancellation of the North American Premiere
February 2, 2026

Hoffnung!
(Hope!)
Letter to Prof. Dr. A. Bonte
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library)
September 17, 2025

In Davids Welt
(In David’s World)
Programme text for the conversation with David Wohnlich
For September 14, 2025

Wie klingt’s weiter?
(How does it continue?)
Preface to the sheet music edition of Contrapunctus XIX
November 1, 2024

Zur Markuspassion
(On the St. Mark Passion)
Preface to the new sheet music edition of the St. Mark Passion
September 11 and December 7, 2024
English version

Markuspassion – Booklet
Programme booklet for the world premiere of the St. Mark Passion
March 2023

Zur Markuspassion / Aus der Werkstatt
(On the St. Mark Passion / From the atelier)
Preface to the first sheet music edition of the St. Mark Passion
September 29, 2021

32 miniatures for the Clavemusicum omnitonum
Preface and overview
January 20, 2020

Cantata ad ineundum Ioanni Petri Textoris otium
(Farewell Cantata for the Retirement of Hans Peter Weber)
Programme text for the concert
June 2018

Zum Kanon in der Bachkantate
(On the canon in Bach’s cantatas)
MA thesis, preface
Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel
May 2018

Das goldene Vließ.
Musik, Theorie und Praxis für ein Education-Projekt
(The Golden Fleece.
Music, theory and practice for an education project)
Preface to the BA thesis
Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel
April and May 2016

Das Böse als Lebensschule
Zur Aufführung von Schillers »Räubern«
(Evil as a school of life.
On our performance of Schiller’s “The Robbers”)
Sekundarschule Burg Liestal, June 2013

Ist das echt?
Bertolt Brecht – Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
Zu unserer Theaterarbeit und zu der Zeit, in der sie entstand
(Is this real? – Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
On our theatre work and on the time in which it evolved)
Sekundarschule Burg Liestal, June 2011

All texts are in German.