klaus obermaier :: selected scores and sets of parts

Articulation
for electric guitar and piano, 1991
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score - 100kb

recorded for the album: the electric guitar tapes

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thirty-five, string quartet no.2, 1986
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score - 280kb
violin 1 - 90kb
violin 2 - 70kb
viola - 70kb
cello - 70kb

premiered by
Arnold Quartet
Aug. 27, 1989, 3rd international St. Gallen Festival, Austria.
CD: Klaus Obermaier compositions 1985-2005,
Extraplatte EX 651-2

string quartet no.3, 1986
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score - 320kb
violin 1 - 180kb
violin 2 - 170kb
viola - 150kb
cello - 160kb

premiered by
Arnold Quartet
Aug. 27, 1989, 3rd international St. Gallen Festival, Austria.
CD: Klaus Obermaier compositions 1985-2005,
Extraplatte EX 651-2

35, saxophone quartet, 1988/1997
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score - 380kb
soprano sax - 130kb
alto sax - 130kb
tenor sax - 130kb
baritone sax - 130kb

premiered by
Quatuor Alliage
Daniel Gauthier - s, Monique Sylvestre - a,
Christophe Fourmaux - t, Dejan Presicek - b,
Dec. 7, 1997, Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg/France

tasten, for piano, 1992
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piano score - 170kb

premiered by
Hermann Kretzschmar (Ensemble Modern),
May 9, 1997, 'Ein Ort fuer Neue Musik', Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
CD: Klaus Obermaier compositions 1985-2005,
Extraplatte EX 651-2

chords,for guitar and piano, 1992
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piano score - 450kb
guitar part - 200kb

premiered by
Klaus Obermaier (guitar) and Robert Spour (piano),
Nov. 11, 1993, Musikfest bei den Minoriten, Graz/Austria.
CD: box music, Klaus Obermaier & Robert Spour,
Extraplatte EX 251-2

dehpur, for guitar and piano, 1988
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piano score - 280kb
guitar part - 130kb

premiered by
Klaus Obermaier (guitar) and Robert Spour (piano),
June 30, 1991, Phoenix Theatre, Linz/Austria.
CD: new music for guitar and piano,
Klaus Obermaier & Robert Spour,
Extraplatte EX 178

Ueberlagerung und Verschiebung
for guitar duo or 2 marimbaphones, 1985
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duo score - 1.6mb

premiered by
Klaus Obermaier and Alois Watzinger,
May 5, 1987, Steinbruenninger Woche fuer Neue Musik/Germany.
LP: Guitar Duo Klaus Obermaier & Alois Watzinger - Works of Austrian twentieth-century composers (Extraplatte EX 74, 1986).
CD: Klaus Obermaier compositions 1985-2005,
Extraplatte EX 651-2 (2 marimbaphones)

Étude, for guitar, 1994
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guitar score - 50kb

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Klaus Obermaier composed for the Kronos Quartet, the German Chamber Philharmonics and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Alliage Quartet (saxophone quartet), the Arnold Quartet (string quartet of the German Chamber Philharmonics) a. o.
He studied classical guitar at the Bruckner-Conservatory Linz/Austria and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Karl Scheit.
From 1989 to 1998 he toured and recorded with the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt.
In 2005 and 2008 he taught as an adjunct professor for composition at the Webster University Vienna.