Reinhard Febel

Mozarteum

Donaueschinger Musiktage.^[2]

Caspar Hauser) on a libretto by Lukas Hemleb was premiered at the Opernhaus Dortmund.^[4] In 1996 WERGO recorded his Variations for Orchestra, Das Unendliche (The Infinite) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra, and his first string quartet, played by the Arditti Quartet.^[5] Joseph Stevenson described Variations for Orchestra as "a highly individual, strikingly mysterious one-movement orchestral piece in a post-modern style that mixes tonality and atonality in a freely chromatic technique."^[6] Das Unendliche on a poem by Giacomo Leopardi begins with an instrumental reference to the opera Euridice.^[3] The string quartet shows elements of American Minimal music and is written in a notation of eight lines, two for each player.^[7] In 2003 Wolkenstein, Lieder und Chöre nach Texten und Melodien des Oswald von Wolkenstein (Wolkenstein, songs and choruses after texts and tunes of Oswald von Wolkenstein) was first performed at the Berliner Philharmonie.^[2] Triptychon is a "Kammermusiktheater für zwei Sänger, zwei Schauspieler und Kammerorchester nach drei Gemälden von Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper und Diego Velázquez" (chamber music theater for two singers, two actors and chamber orchestra on three paintings by Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper and Diego Velázquez) on a text by the composer. The three parts are entitled "Frida", "Gespensterhaus" (Ghost house) and "Raum 17" (Room 17). The opera was premiered in 2009 at the Opernhaus Kiel

Mozarteum University of Salzburg.^[2]