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Composer: Widmann, Jörg (b. 1973)

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ARD International Music Competition

Amerikahaus München

Brahms, Dvořák, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Smetana, Berio, Carter, Donatoni, Dusapin, Gubaidulina, Gourzi, Henze, Kurtág, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann, Wolfe

Contestants of the ARD International Music Competition

© Thomas Jauck

Konserthuset Stockholm: Stora Salen

2027 Jan 21, 23 mat

Mendelssohn 5, Mendelssohn, Widmann

Widmann, Sun, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

© Ferrante Ferranti | CNSMDP

Philharmonie de Paris: Salle des concerts de la Cité de la musique

Sat 20 Feb at 20:00

Sohy, Korngold, Widmann, Beethoven

Debora Waldman, Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris

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Jörg Widmann and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra © Jonathan Ferro

Jörg Widmann and the CBSO enjoy themselves with Mendelssohn in Birmingham

By Robert Gainer

The Scottish Ensemble © Pete Woodhead

Scottish Ensemble at the Southbank: exceptional evening of hugely energetic, top-quality playing

By Stephen Pritchard

Stefan Dohr, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker © Lena Laine

A tongue-in-cheek Widmann premiere in Berlin

By Elena Luporini

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Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve

Jörg Widmann: my music develops a life of its own

By Michael Klier

Viola player Antoine Tamestit © Julien Mignot

The evolution of a muffled minority: viola players throughout history

By Tristan Labouret

Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve

“I encourage them to write the impossible": Jörg Widmann on his life as a clarinettist and composer

By Elisabeth Schwarz

Fact file

Year of birth	1973
Nationality	Germany
Period	Contemporary

Top works

Con Brio, concert overture for orchestra Danse macabre Fantasy for solo clarinet Octet Sonatina facile See all...

List of works

Beethoven – Studie III, for string quartet Con Brio, concert overture for orchestra Danse macabre Fantasy for solo clarinet Fieberphantasie Octet Paraphrase über Mendelssohns Hochzeitsmarsch Sonatina facile Versuch über die Fuge für Sopran, Oboe und Kammerorchester Violin Concerto no. 2 ad absurdum, for trumpet and orchestra