Compositions

Opera & Music Theatre

Angels in America (2002-2004) further information

  • (ca. 140 min.)
    opera in two parts (in English)
    based on Tony Kushner's play
    Libretto: Mari Mezei

    Cast: (8 singers with amplification)
    The Angels - soprano
    Harper - soprano
    Hannah - mezzo soprano
    Joe - baritone
    Prior - lyrical baritone
    Louis - tenor
    Belize - counter-tenor
    Roy Cohn - bass-baritone

    Orchestra: 27 instruments with amplification:
    (fl, clar., tpt., tbn., 2 sax., 2 guit., 2 keybords, 2 perc., 6 vl., 4 vla., 3 vcl., 2 contrabass)
    3 vocal singers (S-M-B) with amplification
    Detailed list is available in "further info"-"technical info"

    Commissioned by Théâtre du Châtelet Paris
    Premiere: 23 November 2004, Paris, Châtelet
    Directed by Philippe Calvario, conductor: Peter Eötvös
    Edition Schott Music Mainz


"As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams" (1998-99) further information CD

  • (50:00)
    Sound theatre - scenic on stage (in English)
    (Scenes from the 11th century Japan)
    Text from diary of Lady Sarashina, Year 1008, Japan
    English translation: Ivan Morris, Penguin Classics Ed. 1975
    Libretto: Mari Mezei
    Cast:
    1 recitant (actress), 3 speakers: sopran, mezzo, bariton,
    1 speaking violoncello player (solo), 1 trombone alto (solo), 1 trombone cbass (solo), 3 cl (3. also bcl, cbcl), 1 sax., 1 sousaphon, 3 percussions, 9 strings: 3.0.2.2.2., 1 computer piano without player,
    Special instruments: trombone alto with double-bell, trombone contrabass with double-bell, sousaphon with light-module
    technique: multichannel harmoniser and sound-projection

  • Available version for theatre: recorded music on CD (instead of live ensemble)
    Live: recitant,3 speakers, speaking violoncello, 1 trombone alto, 1 trombone cbass (+sousaphon)
    Special instruments: trombone alto with double-bell, trombone contrabass with double-bell, sousaphon with light-module
    technique: multichannel harmoniser and sound-projection

    Commissioned by Donaueschingen Festival and Land Baden-Württemberg
    First performance: 1999 Oktober - Donaueschingen (Ensemble Varianti Stuttgart, Claire Bloom recitant, Mike Svoboda solo trombone, Gerard Buquet cbass trombone, cond. Manfred Schreier, director: Thea Brejzek)
    CD: col legno WWE 2CD 20075
    (Ensemble Varianti, cond. Manfred Schreier, recorded in Donaueschingen, 1999)
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3458)

Harakiri (1973) further information CD

  • (19:30)
    Scene with music
    Text: István Bálint
    1 performer (in Japanese), 1 Narrator (home-language)
    2 Shakuhachi (or 2 alt flute, or 2 sopran sax.)
    1 wood-cutter (performer or musician)
    Commissioned by WDR, Köln
    First performance: September 1973 Bonn
    (Tokk - Ensemble Tokyo)
    Video: Hungarian Television 1993
    CD: BMC Records Budapest (Tokk Ensemble)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3225)

Lady Sarashina (2007) further information

  • opera in one act (in English)
    Text from diary of Lady Sarashina, Year 1008, Japan
    English translation: Ivan Morris, Penguin Classics Ed. 1975
    Libretto: Mari Mezei

    4 singers (soprano, mezzo, alt, baritone)
    Orchestra:
    2 fl (both + Piccolo, second + altfl.), 1 ob (+ Eng.horn), 3 clar. (third + basscl.),
    2 bassoon (second + contrabassoon),1 sax (S-A-T-Bar),
    Winds: 3 - 2- 3- 1, 2 percussion, 1 harp, 1 sampler keyboard
    Strings: 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2
    Commissioned by Opera National de Lyon
    Premiere: 4 March, 2008 Opera National de Lyon
    Director: Ushio Amagatsu
    conducted by Peter Eötvös
    Edition Ricordi Munich

Le Balcon (2001/02) further information
  • (1:50:00)
    opera (in French)
    based on Jean Genet's play
    Libretto: Francoise Morvan, Peter Eötvös and André Markovitz
    Cast:
    Irma / La Reine - alto
    Carmen - soprano
    La Femme/ La Voleuse /La Fille /Chantal - mezzosoprano
    Le Chef de la Police - bass-baryton
    Roger - baryton
    L´Eveque - basse
    Le Juge - high tenor
    Le Général - lyrical barytone
    L´Envoyé de la Cour - barytone
    Le Bourreau / Artur - basse
    Un Révolté /Un photographe /L´Esclave - artiste

    Orchestra:
    1 fl. (+picc.+alto), 1 ob. (Eng.Hn), 1 cl., 1 bcl., 1 bassoon, 1 sax. (sopr., alto, bar.), 1 horn, 2 tpt., 1 tbn., 1 tuba,
    2 perc., hrp., org. Hammond, 1 vl., 1 vla., 1 vcl., 1 contrabass.
    Solo instruments: 1 vl. (Strohviolin), cb.clar., tpt., horn

    Commissioned by Aix-en-Provence Festival
    Premiere: 5 July, 2002 Aix-en-Provence
    Directed by Stanislas Nordey
    Ensemble Intercontemporain, conductor: Peter Eötvös
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Love and other Demons (2007) further information

  • opera in two acts (in English)
    based on Gabriel García Márquez´s novel "Of Love and Other Demons"
    Libretto: Kornél Hamvai

    8 singers, chorus (8 women)
    Orchestra: 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 clar., bass clarinet, 2 bassoons
    9 brass: 4.2.2.1 plus 1 sax. (S, A, Bar.)
    2 percussion, Harp, Celesta
    Strings: 6.6.8.6.4.
    Technics and sound engineer required

    Commissioned by Festivalopera Glyndebourne
    Director: Silviu Purcarete
    Conducted: Vladimir Jurovsky
    Premiere: 10 August, 2008
    Edition Schott Mainz

Radames (1975/97) further information
  • (35:00)
    Chamberopera (in German-English-Italian)
    Libretto: Peter Eötvös
    (based on Ghislanzoni, Jeles, Najmányi, Niehaus, Verdi)
    Cast:
    Radames /Aida - counter-tenor
    opera director - mezzo soprano
    theater director - tenor
    film director - bariton
    ensemble:
    sopran sax., horn, tuba, e-piano
    First performance: March 1976 Köln WDR Musik-Theater Festival
    New version: December 1997 Budapest (Chamber Opera)
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Three sisters (1996-97) further information CD

  • (1:40:00)
    Opera in three sequences (in Russian)
    Libretto C.H. Henneberg and Peter Eötvös, adapted from Tchechov
    Countertenors: Irina (sopran), Mascha (mezzo), Olga (alt), Natasha (sopr.)
    Tenors: Doctor, Rodé, Fedotik
    Baritons: Andrei, Vershinin, Tusenbach (baryton lyric)
    Bass: Soljonij, Kulygin, Anfisa
    1st orch: 1 fl (altfl.), 1 ob (Eh), 1 cl. (in A, Es), 1 bcl (cbcl), 1 bassoon,1 sopr.sax./2 horn,1 trumpet (Flghr), 1 trombone/ 2 perc./Accordeon, E-piano/1.0.1.1.1.
    2nd orch: 2.2.2.2./2.2.2.1./2 perc./e-piano, 1 CD player/8.8.6.6.4.
    Commissioned by Opera National de Lyon
    First performance: 13 March 1998, Opera de Lyon
    Directed by Ushio Amagatsu, conductors: Kent Nagano and Peter Eötvös
    CD: DGG 459 694-2 (Opera National de Lyon, Nagano, Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3374)

Vocal Ensemble & Choir

Drei Madrigalkomödien further information


Solitude / Magány (1956/2006) further information
(In memoriam Kodály)

  • (5:00)
    for children choir
    Text: Béla Kapuváry (Hungarian)
    Edition Salabert Paris

Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra (with soloist)

Atlantis (1995) further information CD

  • (37:30)
    Text: Sándor Weöres
    solo barytone, boy soprano, zymbalom, virtual choir (synth.) and orch.: 5 fl. (2-3-4-5 also picc., 4-5. also altfl.), 5 ob. (5. also eng. horn), 4 cl. (4. also bcl), 1 bcl (cbcl), 5 bassoon (4-5. also contrabassoon), 4 sax.(s., a., t., bar)/6 hr., 5 tr. (1-2 also picctr.) bugle., 5 trombone (1. alto, 5. basso ), 2 tuba, /10 perc. / 2 harps, 2 el.piano/3 synth./bassguitar/ strings: 2.2.2.2.2
    Commissioned by WDR Köln
    First performance: November 1995 Cologne
    (WDR Symph.Orch., Dietrich Henschel, Marta Fábián, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    CD: BMC CD007 Budapest (WDR Symph. Orch. cond. Peter Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3221)


CAP-KO, dedicated to Béla Bartók (2005) further information CD
Concerto for Acoustical Piano, Keyboard and Orchestra
  • (20:00)
    2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 1 basscl., 1 sax., 2 bsn, 2 hr, 2 trp., 2 trb., 2 tubas, 3 perc., cel. and keyboard controll (1 player),
    strings: 10-8-6-6-4
    solo piano: concert piano (D-model) and Midi Digital Piano (e.g. Roland KR 17)
    Commissioned by Musica Viva München
    Co-commission: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orch. Phil. Radio France, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
    Piano soloist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Premiere: 26 January, 2006, Munich
    CD: Musica Viva NEOS 10705 (2007)
    Edition Schott Music Mainz


Chinese Opera (1986) further information CD CD CD


IMA (2002) further information CD

  • (27:13)
    for Choir: 3, 3, 3, 3 + 8, 8, 8, 8 (or more)
    and orchestra (3 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl.,1 basscl., 2 sax., 2 basson, / 3 hr., 3 tr., 3 trombone, 1 tuba / 4 perc., /
    2 keyboard, / 2 vl., 2 vla., 2 vcl., 2 kb.)
    Text: Sándor Weöres and Gerhard Rühm
    Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
    First performance: 13 September, 2002 WDR Köln
    WDR Symph. Orchestra and Choir, cond. Sylvain Cambreling
    CD: BMC Records Budapest, 085
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Jet Stream (2002) further information CD CD

  • (ca. 18:00)
    for trumpet solo and orchestra (2 picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., 1 cor ang., 3 clar., 1 bass clar., 2 bass., 1 contrabbasson, 2 sax (1st S.T., 2nd A.T.) ./ 4 hr., 3 tr. in Bb, 3 tromb.(1st and 2nd tenors, 3rd bass), 1 tuba / 4 perc. /
    2 harps, 1 keyboard (sampler) and celesta.
    Strings: 12-12-8-8-8
    Commissioned by BBC Symphony Orchestra, London
    First performance: 15 February, 2003
    BBC Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stockhausen trumpet, cond. P. Eötvös
    CD: BMC Budapest CD 097
    CD: DGG 00289 477 6150
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Konzert für zwei Klaviere (2007) further information

  • (20:00)
    Orch.: 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 1 basscl., 1 sax., 2 bsn, 2 hr, 2 trp., 2 trb., 2 tubas, 3 perc., celesta
    strings: 10-8-6-6-4
    First performance: 9 March, 2008, Cologne
    Symphony Orchestra WDR, Grau-Schumacher piano duo, cond: Stephan Ashbury
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Levitation (2007) further information

  • for two clarinets and string orchestra
    Instrumentation: 2 clarinets, strings and accordeon
    Strings: 8-6-4-4-2
    Commissioned by Canary Islands Music Festival
    Soloists: Sabine Mayer, Wolfgang Mayer
    Premiere: 7 February, 2008, Las Palmas
    Finnish Radio Symph. Orch.
    Conducted by Sakari Oramo
    Edition Schott Mainz

Psychokosmos (1993) further information CD
  • (16:30)
    for zymbalon solo and traditional orchestra: 3.3.3.3./4.4.4.1./timpani, 4 perc./el. piano/harp/cel.
    strings: 16-14-12-10-8
    Commissioned by SDR Stuttgart
    First performance : February 1994 Stuttgart
    (Süddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra, Marta Fábian - zymbalon, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    CD: BMC CD007 Budapest (BBC Symph. Orch. cond. Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3216)

Replica (1998) further information CD

  • (15:00)
    for viola solo and orchestra
    1 fl., 1. altfl. (also picc.), 1 ob., 1 Eng. horn, 2 cl., 1 bcl (cbcl), 1 AltSax., 2 fagott / 2.2 (2. also bugle).2.1./
    2 perc./accordeon, celesta, harp/strings: 8.6.5.4.3.
    Commissioned by Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Milano
    First performance: 29 March 1999 Milano
    (Orch. Filarmonica della Scala, Kim Kashkashian viola, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    CD: ECM New Series 1711, 465 420-2
    (Radio Chamber Orchestra Hilversum, Kim Kashkashian, Peter Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3424)

Seven (2006)
(Memorial for the Columbia Astronauts) further information

  • (ca 20:00)
    for violin solo and orchestra:
    3 fl., 3 ob., 3 clar., 1 bclar., 3 bsn., 1 sax., 2 hr., 2 trp., 2 trb., 1 tuba, 1 Sampler-keyboard, 1 hp., 1 el.guitar, 4 perc.,
    strings: 6-5-5-4
    Commissioned by Luzern Festival
    Premiere: 6 September, 2007, Luzern
    (Akiko Suwanai, violin, conducted by Pierre Boulez)

Shadows (1996) further information CD CD

  • (15:00)
    Version for flute, clarinet with ampl. and orchestra
    picc., ob., bcl, cbcl, bassoon,/ 2 horn, trumpet (picc.tr.), trombone, bariton sax./timpani, percussion, celesta/strings: 8.0.6.4.2.
    (fl., cl., perc. and cel. amplified)
    Commissioned by Land Baden-Württemberg
    First performance: March 1996 Ludwigshafen, Baden-Baden
    (Südwestfunk Orch., Dagmar Becker-fl, Wolfgang Mayer-clar.,cond. Hans Zender)
    CD: (SWF Symph. Orch. cond.: Zender) BMC CD007 Budapest
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3318)

    Version for flute, clarinet with ampl. and ensemble
    picc., ob., bcl, cbcl, bassoon/2 horn, trumpet (picc.tr.), trombone, bariton sax./timpani, percussion, celesta/strings: 4.0.2.2.2.
    (fl., cl., perc. and cel. amplified)
    First performance: April 1997, Budapest
    (Gergely Ittzés, Gergely Vajda, Forrás Ensemble, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    CD: Karios/edel 0012082 KAI (Klangforum Wien, Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3352)


Triangel (1993) further information CD

  • (35:00)
    Action for one creative percussionist and 27 musicians: 2.2.2 (bcl).2./2.2.2.1./2 perc./electr. piano/3.0.3.2.1
    Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart
    First performance: February 1994 Stuttgart
    (Isao Nakamura-perc., Junges Philharm. Orch. Stuttgart, cond. Manfred Schreier)
    CD: Grammofon AB BIS - BIS-CD-948 (Zoltán Rácz, UMZE, Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3212)

Two monologues (1998) further information CD

  • (13:00)
    for bariton and orchestra
    Text: Anton Tchechov
    (Russian or English version)
    2.2.2.2./2.2.2.1./2 perc./1 harp/strings
    First performance: February 1999 Frankfurt
    (SWF Symph. Orch., Wojtek Drabowicz -bariton, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    CD: BMC Records Budapest (W. Drabowicz, SWR Symph.Orch., Eötvös)
    Edition Ricordi München - performing material on hire (Sy 3415)

zeroPoints (1999) further information CD

  • (14:00)
    for orchestra
    Orch.: 4.3.4.3./2 sax./4.3.3.1./2 hp/ 1 pno-celesta/1 timp., 4 perc./strings
    Commissioned by London Symphony Orchestra, Kölner Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs Elysée, Carnegie Hall, Societé Philharmonique de Bruxelles and Brussels 2000, Musikfestwochen Luzern, Edinburgh International Festival for Boulez 2000.
    First performance: 27 February, 2000 London, London Symphony Orchestra,
    conducted by Pierre Boulez
    CD: BMC Budapest CD 063
    (Göteborgs Symfoniker, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Ensemble

Brass - The Metal Space (1990) further information

  • (22:30)
    Action piece for seven brass instruments (2.2.2.1) and two percussionists
    Commissioned by Steirischer Herbst Graz
    First performance: October 1990 Graz, Steirischer Herbst (Ensemble Modern)
    Edition Ricordi München

Intervalles-Intérieurs (1981) further information CD CD

  • (30:00)
    Clar., trb., vln., vc., percussion, stereo tape
    (tape identical with Elektrochronik)
    First performance: 1982 La Rochelle Festival (Ensemble Itineraire)
    CD: Erato ECD 75554 (1989) Ens. InterContemporain
    CD: BMC Records 092 UMZE Ensemble
    Edition Salabert Paris (EAS 17676)

Octet (2008) further information
  • (12:00)
    for flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
    Commissioned by Reina Sofia School of Music, Madrid
    First performance: 2 April 2008. Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt
    Edition Ricordi München

Octet plus (2008) further information
  • for soprano, flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
    Text: fragments from Beckett´s "Embers"
    First performance: September 2008, Ensemble Linea, Strassbourg
    Edition Ricordi München

Paris-Dakar (2000) further information CD

  • (7:00)
    for trombone solo, brass and percussion instruments
    4 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 percussion
    First performance: 2001 Budapest,
    László Göz and Budapest Jazz solists
    CD: BMC Budapest CD 097
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Snatches of a conversation (2001) further information CD

  • (10:45)
    for double-bell trumpet solo and ensemble (flute, clarinet, sax, trombone, vibraphon, marimbaphon, noise-maker, e-piano (sampler), 2 violine, viola, violoncello, contrabass)
    Commissioned by "Europäischer Musikmonat 2001" Basel, Switzerland
    First performance: 25 November 2001
    (Marco Blaauw, trumpet, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, cond. Jürg Henneberger)
    CD: BMC Budapest CD 097
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Sonata per sei (2006) further information

  • (18:00)
    for two pianos, three percussion and one sampler keyboard
    First pianist: concert piano (D model), second pianist: concert piano (D-model), third pianist: sampler keyboard
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

Steine (1985-90) further information CD


Windsequenzen (1975/1987) further information CD

  • (29:00)
    for fl. (picc., altfl.) , ob. (Eng. horn, windimitation), 2cl., bcl., tuba, double bass, bassdrum, accordeon
    First performance: 21 December, 1975 Budapest
    Second version: 18 July, 1989 Szombathely, Bartok Festival
    (Ensemble InterContemporain, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    Latest version with accordeon: 14 September 2002 Cologne (Musikfabrik, cond. Franck Ollu)
    Video: Hungarian Television 1993
    LP: SCPX 12602 (first version)
    CD: BMC Records 092 Klangforum Wien
    Editio Musica Budapest

Solo Instrument & Chamber Music

A magyar romokon (1959) further information

  • for mezzo
    Text: Dezsö Kosztolányi
    First performance: October 2006 Budapest (Maria Horváth)

Cadenza (2008)

  • for flute solo
    (from "Shadows")
    First performance: 2008 - Camilla Hoitenga
    Edition Ricordi München Sy. 3919

Derwischtanz (1993/2001) further information CD


Encore (July, 2005) further information
(Un taxi l´attend, mais Tchékhov préfère aller à pied.)

  • (2:00)
    for string quartet
    First performance: 11 June, 2006, Schloss Neuhardenberg
    Athena quartet
    Edition Schott Musik Mainz

Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier nr. 1. (28 May, 2003) further information

  • (3:00)
    "In memoriam Luciano Berio"
    for solo piano
    First performance: 20 July 2003 Tanglewood Festival
    (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
    Edition Schott Mainz

Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier nr. 2. (28 May 2003/ 13 October 2006) further information

  • (3:00)
    "In memoriam Luciano Berio"
    for solo piano
    First performance: 9 January 2007, Montreal, Canada
    (Louise Bessette)
    Edition Schott Mainz

Korrespondenz (1992) further information CD

  • (16:30)
    Scenes for string quartet
    Commissioned by Schleswig-Holstein Festival and "Antwerpen" Festival
    First performance: July 1993, Schleswig-Holstein (Arditti Stringquartet)
    CD: BMC Records Budapest
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3186)


Kosmos (1961/99) further information CD

  • (15:00)
    for solo or two pianos
    Original version 1961
    First performance: June 1961 Budapest (Eötvös)
    Video: Hungarian Television 1992 (Eötvös)
    New version 1999
    CD: BMC Records Budapest
    Edition Salabert Paris

Natasha (2006) further information

  • (ca 4:00)
    for counter or soprano and
    violin, clarinet in A, piano
    Text: Anton Tchechov
    First performance: June, 2006 Schwetzingen Festival, Germany
    (Daniel Gloger, counter, Ensemble Modern)
    Edition Ricordi, München

"Now, Miss!" (1972) further information CD

  • (18:30)
    (based on Samuel Beckett's "Embers")
    "Klangspiel" for Vln., Synthesizer (DX-7) and stereo tape (sea sounds)
    First performance: July 1972 Öldorfer Sommernachtsmusik
    (János Négyesy, Peter Eötvös)
    CD: BMC Records Budapest (CD 072)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3206)

Psalm 151 (1993) further information CD

  • (19:30)
    "In memoriam Frank Zappa"
    for solo or four percussionists
    First performance: February 1994 Stuttgart (Mircea Ardeleanu)
    Video: Hungarian Television 1995 (Zoltan Rácz)
    CD: Grammofon AB BIS-CD-948 (Zoltán Rácz)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3211)

Psy (1996) further information CD

  • (9:00)
    Version for flute, violoncello and zymbalom (or piano or harpe or bassmarimba)
    First performance: June 1997 Mönchengladbach (Ensemble Köln)
    CD: Grammofon AB BIS-CD-948 (Gergely Ittzés, Miklós Perényi, Zoltán Rácz)

    Version for flute, viola, harpe
    First performance: November 2002 Paris (Ensemble InterContemporain)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3347)

Thunder (1993) further information

  • (5:00)
    for one basstimpani (Solo from "Triangel")
    First performance: 1994 Kyoto (Isao Nakamura)
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3425)

Two poems to Polly (1998) further information

  • (5:00)
    solo for a speaking cello player
    Edition Ricordi München (Sy 3375)

UNICEF (September 2005) further information
(Ein Fünffingerstück, um eine Geschichte zu erfinden)

  • (1:00)
    for solo piano, for children
    Edition Schott, Mainz

Un taxi l´attend, mais Tchékhov préfère aller à pied. (August 2004) further information
(There´s a taxi waiting for Chekhov, but he´d rather go on foot.)

  • (2:00)
    for solo piano
    Edition Schott Mainz

Zwei Promenaden (1993/2001) further information

  • maskulin / feminin (from "Triangel")
    for two percussion, keyboard and tuba
    Edition Ricordi München

Tape & Electronic & Multimedia

Cricketmusic (1970) further information CD


Elektrochronik (1974) further information CD

  • (30:00)
    stereo tape, recording from a Electrocronic live session
    Recording: 1974 WDR Köln
    (Peter Eötvös, Mesias Maiguashca)
    tape available at the composer
    CD: BMC Record Budapest (CD 072)

Mese (Märchen/Tale/Conte) (1968) further information CD


Music for New York (1971) further information CD

  • (10:40)
    sopran saxophone and percussion improvisation with tape
    tape available at the composer
    CD: BMC Records Budapest (CD 072)
    Eötvös Péter Composition Studio Budapest

Withdrawn compositions


Endless Eight I. (1981) further information

  • (26:00)
    WITHDRAWED
    3 sopran, 3 alto, 3 tenor, 3 bass, 2 perc., 1 elect. gitar, 2 Hammondorgans
    First performance: December 1981 (Radio France Choir Paris, cond. Peter Eötvös)
    Edition Salabert Paris (EAS 17613)

Endless Eight II. - Apeiron musikon (1988-89) further information

  • (32:40)
    WITHDRAWED
    2 sopran, 2 alto, 2 tenor, 2 bass, dubble mixed choir, 2 perc., 1 synth. (DX-7)
    First performance: June 1987 Amsterdam, Holland Festival (Nederlands Kamerkoor, cond.Peter Eötvös)
    Edition Salabert Paris (EAS 18601)

Pierre Idyll (1984) further information
  • (8:00)
    WITHDRAWED
    for 18 instruments
    1 fl., 2 clar, 1 bcl, 1 ob. d´amour, 2 fagott,1 Eng. horn, 2 horn, 2 percussions, piano
    strings: 2 vl, 1 vla, 1 vcl, 1 kb
    Ensemble InterContemporain, cond. Peter Eötvös
    First performance: 31 March 1985 Baden-Baden
    Edition Salabert Paris

Der Blick (1997) further information
  • (16:40)
    Multimedia, on video and tape
    WITHDRAWED
    (Composition with instrument-sounds and eye-pictures for headphones, loudspeakers and video)
    Commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
    Sound recording: Ensemble Modern
    First performance: October 1997 Karlsruhe

600 Impulse (2000) further information

  • (10:00)
    for brass ensemble
    WITHDRAWED
    4 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 percussion
    Commissioned by Stadt Mainz
    First performance: 7 May, 2000 Mainz
    Ensemble Universität Mainz, cond.: Joachim Ulrich
    Edition Schott Music Mainz

désaccord - pour deux altos (2001)
(in memoriam B.A. Zimmermann) further information

  • (8:00)
    for two violas
    WITHDRAWED
    Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Germany
    First performance: 11 January, 2002, Köln WDR
    Tabea Zimmermann, Garth Knox
    Edition Ricordi München

Theater- and film music

(Hungary 1962-1991)

Hungarian theaters:

  • Büchner: Leonce és Léna - Leonce and Lena (1961)
  • Sean O'Casey: Az ezüst kupa - The Silver Tassie (1961)
  • Tenessee Williams: Üvegfigurák- The Glass Menagerie (1963)
  • O'Neil: Amerikai Elektra - Mourning becomes Electra (1963)
  • Madách: Az ember tragédiája - Tragedy of Man (1964)
  • Lermontov: Hóvihar - The Storm (1964)
  • Pirandello: Hat szerep keres egy szerzöt - Six characters in search of an author (1964)
  • Anouilh: Becket (1965)
  • Katona: Bánk bán (1968)
  • Shakespeare: Téli rege - The Winter´s Tale (1969)
  • Shakespeare: Athéni Timon - Timon of Athens (1969)

Children theatre:

  • Twist Oliver - Oliver Twist (1963)
  • Hét szem mazsola - Seven Raisins (1965)
  • Ellopott bejárat - Stolen Entrance (1965)
  • Foltos és Fülenagy - Spotty and Bigears (1966)

Film:

  • János Rózsa: Tér - Space (1962)
  • Pál Gábor: Prometeusz - Prometheus (1962)
  • Pál Gábor: A megérkezés - The Arrival (1962)
  • Károly Esztergályos: Ötödik pozicióban - In fifth position (1962)
  • Pál Gábor: Aranykor - Golden Age (1963)
  • Zoltán Fábri: Nappali sötétség - Darkness at noon (1963)
  • István Bácskay-Lauro: Igézet - Spell (1963)
  • István Szabó: Álmodozások kora - The Age of Daydreaming (1964)
  • Iván Lakatos: Mozaik - Mosaic (1964)
  • János Szücs: Szomjuság - Thirst (1965)
  • Mihály Szemes: Az alvilág professzora - The professor of inferno (1969)
  • Ferenc Kardos: Egy örült éjszaka - A Crazy Night (1969)
  • János Tóth: Aréna - Arena (1969)
  • Zoltán Huszárik: Amerigo Tot (1969)
  • Károly Makk: Macskajáték - Cat´s play (1974)
  • Sándor Sára: Tüske a köröm alatt - Thorn under the Nail (1987)
  • Judit Elek: Tutajosok Raftsmen (1990)
  • Sándor Sára: Könyörtelen idök Relentless Times (1991)

Portrait-film and documentary film

"The seventh door"

  • portrait film
    ZDF/ARTE - Les Film d'Ici production, Paris (1998)
    Directed by Judit Kele
    Duration: 52'
    Prizes:
    awardedPrix du meilleur documentaire musical de création attribué par la SACEM, 1999
    awardedGrand Prix au Festival du film d'Art de Montréal, 2000
    awardedMention spéciale du jury au Festival Classiques en Images, 2000
    Festivals:
    Visions du Réel à Nyon (Suisse)
    Etat Généraux du documentaire à Lussas (France)
    Semana internacional de cine de Valladolid (Espagne)

    DVD available at
    Ideale Audience International, Paris
    tel: +33 1 48019590
    E-mail: distribution@ideale-audience.com
    www.ideale-audience.com

"En souvenir de Trois Soeurs"

  • documentary film about the opera Three Sisters
    Les Film d'Ici production, Paris (1999)
    Directed by Judit Kele
    Duration: 28'

    Available at
    Les Films d´Ici
    12, rue Clavel, 75019 Paris, France
    e-mail: les.films.d-ici@wanadoo.fr

"Talentum" - Eötvös Peter, composer

  • portrait-film
    DUNA TV Hungary, 2000
    Directed by Balázs Sára
    Duration: 30'

" Trois Soeurs" - opera film

  • opera en trois sequences de Peter Eötvös
    une coproduction
    LGM - RM Associates - Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet - MUZZIK
    2001
    Mise en scène: Ushio Amagatsu
    Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
    Direction Musicale: Kent Nagano, Peter Eötvös
    Realisation: Don Kent

    Available at
    Digital Classics or
    Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
    www.chatelet-theatre.com

" Le Balcon" - opera film

  • opera en dix tableaux de Peter Eötvös
    une coproduction
    Bel Air Media avec Aix-en-Provence Festival 2002
    Mise en scène: Stanislas Nordey
    Ensemble Intercontemporain
    Direction Musicale: Peter Eötvös
    Realisation: Andy Sommer

    Available at Bel Air Media
    Tel: + 33-1-44882818
    Fax: + 33-1-44882814
    e-mail: bel.air.media@wanadoo.fr

"Angels in America " - opera film

  • opera in two parts by Peter Eötvös
    Video recording for Television and DVD release
    Recorded at the Théatre du Chatelet - Paris
    Musical direction: Peter Eötvös
    Stage direction: Philippe Calvario
    November 2004

    Francois Roussillon et Associés production
    51-53 rue Fondary, 75015 Paris
    tel: 33-1-45 78 79 00
    fraprod@fraprod.com