{"id":676,"date":"2025-02-08T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nikolausmatthes.org\/kompositionen\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:45:50","slug":"compositions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/compositions\/","title":{"rendered":"Compositions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2025
\nThe Road Not Taken<\/strong>
\nFor choir, speaker and piano for four hands
\nAfter a poem by Robert Frost<\/p>\n

2025
\nHoy! \u2013 Matrosen, kommt gelaufen!<\/strong>
\nSeefahrerkantate \u2013 oder: Die Taufe der \u00bbQueen Bach\u00ab
\n(Hoy! \u2013 Sailors, come on over!
\nSailor’s Cantata \u2013 or: The Christening of the “Queen Bach”)
\nDramma per musica
\nAfter a libretto by Roberto Bargellini<\/p>\n

2024
\nContrapunctus XIX<\/strong><\/a>
\nCompletion of the unfinished fugue from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue”
\nAudio available here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2023
\nMarkuspassion<\/strong> (St. Mark Passion)<\/a>
\nFirst complete new baroque setting of the text by Picander
\nWorld premiere: March 23\u201326, 2023
\nPress comments – Quotes<\/strong><\/a>
\nPress comments – Index<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2019
\n32 Miniatures for the Clavemusicum omnitonum<\/strong>
\nWorld premiere: Gare du Nord, Basel, Johannes Keller; February 6, 2020<\/p>\n

2019
\nMichi. Musik f\u00fcr 14 Stimmen<\/strong> (Michi. Music for 14 Voices)
\nIn memoriam Dr. Michael Kessler
\nMemorial concert on October 5, 2019<\/p>\n

2018
\nCantata ad ineundum Ioanni Petri Textoris otium<\/strong><\/a>
\nFarewell Cantata for the Retirement of Hans Peter Weber
\nWorld premiere: Basel, June 19, 2018<\/p>\n

2016
\nDas goldene Vlie\u00df<\/strong> (The Golden Fleece)<\/a>
\nMusic theatre for two baroque orchestras in different tunings
\nWorld premiere: Oberwil, March 13\u201316, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

2025
\nThe Road Not Taken<\/strong>
\nFor choir, speaker and piano for four hands
\nAfter a poem by Robert Frost<\/p>\n

2025
\nHoy! \u2013 Matrosen, kommt gelaufen!<\/strong>
\nSeefahrerkantate \u2013 oder: Die Taufe der \u00bbQueen Bach\u00ab
\n(Hoy! \u2013 Sailors, come on over!
\nSailor’s Cantata \u2013 or: The Christening of the “Queen Bach”)
\nDramma per musica
\nAfter a libretto by Roberto Bargellini<\/p>\n

2024
\nContrapunctus XIX<\/strong><\/a>
\nCompletion of the unfinished fugue from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue”
\nAudio available here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2023
\nMarkuspassion<\/strong> (St. Mark Passion)<\/a>
\nFirst complete new baroque setting of the text by Picander
\nWorld premiere: March 23\u201326, 2023
\nPress comments – Quotes<\/strong><\/a>
\nPress comments – Index<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2019
\n32 Miniatures for the Clavemusicum omnitonum<\/strong>
\nWorld premiere: Gare du Nord, Basel, Johannes Keller; February 6, 2020<\/p>\n

2019
\nMichi. Musik f\u00fcr 14 Stimmen<\/strong> (Michi. Music for 14 Voices)
\nIn memoriam Dr. Michael Kessler
\nMemorial concert on October 5, 2019<\/p>\n

2018
\nCantata ad ineundum Ioanni Petri Textoris otium<\/strong><\/a>
\nFarewell Cantata for the Retirement of Hans Peter Weber
\nWorld premiere: Basel, June 19, 2018<\/p>\n

2016
\nDas goldene Vlie\u00df<\/strong> (The Golden Fleece)<\/a>
\nMusic theatre for two baroque orchestras in different tunings
\nWorld premiere: Oberwil, March 13\u201316, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolausmatthes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}