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chamber oratorio for three-part female choir, speaker, violin, and piano
score & libretto
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paperback
152 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-00-6
publication date: 04.06.2020
3rd edition
languages: German / English / "To Yemoja" in Portuguese as well
price: 24,90 €
graduated price: 19,90 € from 13 pieces (only if ordered from the publisher)
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The violin part (PDF, 13 MB) can be downloaded free of charge.
The oratorio “Our Beloved Lady” is a declaration of love to the woman per se, to her manifold as divine nature; it‘s a reflection and a prayer. The three holy girls (Barbara, Katherine, Margaret) mark the life of a Salige [ˈzaːˌlɪɡə] who is born as a daughter of the Percht [pɛʁçt], the bright sun, and brings also light to the world. The Bavarian and German texts are based on the Song of Songs from the Old Testament and on the mythology of the southern German-speaking parts. They are also translated into English.
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Josef Wittmann & Josef Irgmaier
song cycle for four-part mixed choir (SATB), one or more solo singers, and piano
score (lyrics in Bavarian)
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paperback
100 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-05-1
publication date: 06.11.2018
languages: German / English / lyrics in Bavarian
price: 19,90 €
graduated price: 15,90 € from 11 pieces
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The song cycle "12 Hymns for Bavaria" was written in 2018 on the occasion of a Bavarian double jubilee: the bicentennial as a constitutional state and the centenary as "Freistaat", a democratic republic. It sings about the brighter and the darker sides of Bavaria with a pastoral, saucy, rocking, first seemingly impressionistic, then unheard music. It even ends with a real alternative to the existing Bavarian anthem: a democratic one, religion-neutral, and oriented to the human being. All lyrics in Bavarian.
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variations, suites, preludes, foam heads, birthday serenades, a piece without score, meditations and inspirates for piano
score
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paperback
208 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-06-8
publication date: 22.11.2018
languages: German / English
price: 29,90 €
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The Piano Book contains: Maymento, Wedding Suite, Six Choral Preludes, Variations on the Choral “Silent Night”, Variations on the Bavarian National Anthem, 15 Preludes (The Beginning, A Little Big Bang, Awakening, Fibotic Chorale, Florestan Speaks, Gos-simpletons Landler, Thought of Oskar Sigmund, Cadence, Piano Bar Falling Into Sleep, Little Advance, Trouble, Little Academic Fugue, Tightrope Walk, The Blue Sheep, Still Waters), 6 Foam Heads (on Schumann‘s „Träumerei“, on Bach‘s „Prelude in C major“ from WTC I, on Bartók‘s „Allegro barbaro“, on Webern‘s „Variations“ op 27, on Rachmaninov‘s „Prélude in C-sharp minor“ op 3/2, on Febel‘s „Kismet“, and A Lullaby to Schubert‘s “Doppelganger”), 9 Birthday Serenades (A C-sharp as a Birthday Present, Birthday Wish and Fortune, Birthday Thanks, 40 Dots of Paint as a Birthday Present, Birthday Round, And Who Is Born, A Fortitune, J. E. AIGH, And the 40 Keys), one Piece Without Score (Meteor), Meditations & Inspirates (Concertino, Gershwin Canon, The Long Life of Tetra, Condoles, Star Chord Changes, Silent Tidings, Silent Choral Tide, Via Crucis, Interspellar, Rhizomusic, Corvolat).
Josef Wittmann & Josef Irgmaier
Bavarian DJ chamber opera for two speakers (male and female), mute, DJ, baritone, and DAW
score (lyrics in bavarian)
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paperback
204 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-07-5
publication date: 28.08.2019
languages: German / English / libretto in Bavarian
price: 29,90 €
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The Bavarian DJ chamber opera “gSALZn” (“salted”) tells the story of salt up to the present day: 250 million years of Earth’s history in 90 minutes, going from the origin of salt via the tectonic changes of the earth to the construction of the first modern pipeline of the world, the brine pipeline from Bad Reichenhall to Traunstein, and to the environmental awareness of our time. The events on stage stay radically static up to third act: only at the end of the opera, human kind appears. The DJ pre-produces the music according to the score, presents it live and “conducts” the living and the non-living actors. The music combines elements from rave, classic, and experimental electronic music. All lyrics in Bavarian.
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Josef Wittmann & Josef Irgmaier
poem cycle with music for speaker, singer, and accordion
score & libretto (lyrics in Bavarian)
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paperback
96 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-08-2 (score & libretto)
ISBN: 978-3-966060-19-6 (book including CD)
song postcards
publication date: 12.10.2020
languages: German / English / lyrics in Bavarian
price: 19,90 €
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The poem cycle “Drawizlbabuzi” has been written as a parody on so-called “water glass reading sessions” (respectable poet with manuscript near water glass on white tea cloth with flower bouquet). The Bavarian lyrics, the sound poetry, and the nursery rhymes have either deliberately no deeper meaning, or they are onomatopoetically meaningless, or they do artistic brain acrobatics of its own meaning. The music comments on the texts through accordion pieces made of Landlers, Marches, Polkas, “Boarische”, Blues, and experimental stuff, or through songs. Manner and melodies of the Alpine folk music are as distinctive as the uniqueness in the way they are used.
The libretto section (for gentle readers as well as the speaker) contains all lyrics with some notes on the music. The score section contains the sheet-music with all of the speaker's texts for the musician to read along.
Josef Irgmaier
cantata for mixed or female choir, children's choir and orchestra
study score & libretto
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paperback
220 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-10-5
publication date: 16.09.2022
languages: Englisch / German
price: 29,90 €
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"Mary Ward" is a cantata in twelve movements. It was commissioned by the Mary Ward schools of Altötting for their 300th anniversary of foundation. The twelve movements are guided by Mary Ward's life and mostly use recorded sayings of her. The work can be performed as the cantata it is, as a scenic cantata, or as an oratorio with a spoken text, freely chosen and of epic-dramatic character. The difficulty level of the score calls for advanced players among the pupils, yet affords still rather beginners opportunities to serve as chorical reinforcements. The musical style shows characteristics from rock, jazz, musical, film music, noise, and impressionism as well as a fondness of canonical forms. The often unusual yet catchy melodies help Mary Ward’s "cheerful mind" into one’s own life.
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vocal score & libretto
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paperback
124 pages, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-11-2
publication date: 16.09.2022
languages: English / German
price: 19,90 €
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conductor's score & libretto
spiral binding
212 pages, A3
ISMN: 979-0-700374-09-9
publication date: 16.09.2022
languages: English / German
price: 59,90 €
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set of parts
PDF
24 files, A4
ISMN: 979-0-700374-12-9
publication date: 16.09.2022
languages: English / German
price on request
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Ernst Bartmann, Manuel de Roo, Josef Irgmaier
36 pieces for variable ensembles
score, including a CD-ROM
Deutscher Musikeditionspreis 2007 (German Music Edition Award 2007)
original publisher: Ricordi (MGB Hal Leonard Srl)
paperback
175 pages, dimensions: 23,3 x 30,4 x 1,5 cm, 663 g
ISBN: 978-3-938809-12-9
publication date: december 2006
languages: German / English
price: 36,00 € (earlier: 60,- €)
The New Sounds Cookbook comes not only with a lot of study guides and a CD-ROM full of playing scores in all standard transpositions and clefs. It's also an invitation for all persons eager to discover. No matter which instrument they play and how well they play it, no matter if they are two players or eight, both the most conventional and the craziest cast of musicians are possible with these pieces. Find out more about the book, the authors, and the background of its origin on the New Sounds Cookbook website.
Ernst Bartmann, Manuel de Roo, Josef Irgmaier
36 pieces for variable solo-instruments
score (competition edition)
self-published
PDF
225 pages, A4
publications date: May 2020
languages: German
price: 24,00 € (for the competition: 15,- €)
The New Solos Cookbook is the successor of the legendary New Sounds Cookbook. This time, it addresses all soloists eager to discover, no matter which instrument they play and how well they play it. The pieces are notated in different registers and clefs. They allow all kinds of sound development from conventional to just unreal. And they are obligatory for the interpretation competition "Stream Your Solos".
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6 cards = 5,- €
13 cards = 10,- €
special bundles:
Our Beloved Lady (6 cards) = 3,- €
Drawizlbabuzi (2 cards) = 1,- €
Mary Ward (12 cards) = 5,- €
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Mary Ward cards in English
special bundle "Our Beloved Lady"
(Lady Percht)
(Easter) → YouTube
(love)
(joy of living)
(soul, freedom)
(the three holy girls)
special bundle "Drawizlbabuzi"
(nonsense)
(nonsense)
special bundle "Mary Ward"
(softness)
(proposal)
(self-surrender)
(cognition)
(resolve)
(going into action)
(work)
(women power)
(setback)
(joy of living)
(integrity)
(sorrow and trust)
17 tracks
total time about 54'
genres: Bavarian, bossa, Brazil, Cuba, jazz
release date: 21.10.2016
CD in cardboard pocket
LC-52949
price: 10,- €
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more about the album at the Tudo Tranquilo website
book: 44 pages, CD: 32 tracks
total time about 72'
genres: comedy, Bavarian, avantgarde folk music
release date (book including CD): 10.12.2020
release date (online album): 18.12.2020
LC-52949
ISBN: 978-3-966060-19-6 (book including CD)
ISMN: 979-0-700374-08-2 (score & libretto)
song postcards
price (book including CD): 15,- €
published by Liliom-Verlag
available from the publisher, or from us (order by email),
or from Josef Wittmann
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CD review (in German):
06.04.2021 MUH (volume 40) by Klaus Bovers (MUH-Website)
meditation in 12 tracks
total time about 54'
genre: classical / minimalism
release date: 21.01.2021
online album
LC-52949
recorded on 09.08.2011 at the Studio Preisendorf by Ludwig Bergner
with Josef Irgmaier at the Blüthner grand piano (aliquot strings)
find the sheet music in the Piano Book
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chamber oratorio by Josef Irgmaier for three-part female choir, speaker, violin, and piano
46 tracks
total time about 76'
genres: vocal, classical (contemporary), Bavarian, legends
release date: 11.06.2024
CD in digifile including a booklet
LC-52949
recorded on 16.-18.02.2024 at the break hall of the Mary Ward schools Altötting by Johannes Then
with Ensemble LaGioia under Sigrid Weigl,
Anton Leiss-Huber (speaker), Cornelia Beck (violin), and Josef Irgmaier (piano)
Here you find the sheet music (score & libretto)
and the song postcards
price: 15,- €
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Comment by Josef Irgmaier on the origin and content of the oratorio
I wrote "Our Beloved Lady" for my beloved wife. Based on songs that were written for our wedding and the five anniversaries that followed,
further songs, pieces and spoken texts were added to form a hymn to women in general, to their diverse and divine nature.
In the imagination of a time untouched by patriarchy and Christianity, it tells of a trinity of the One in the so-called
three holy girls Barbara, Katherine and Margaret, who, in the colors white, red and black, stand as godmothers for the course of the year
and for the stages of a human life.
In the first section (white, the "ours") we hear about the children of the Percht, the two-faced,
radiant sun and dark earth goddess of the Alpine region: first of all about her daughter, who invites us to the great festival of awakening life
on the first full moon after the spring equinox; then, after we have learned that our perception only knows the plural and that the daughter or
daughters of the Percht were also called Salige [ˈzaːˌlɪɡə], about their blessed work and about what inevitably leads to the loss of the woman
for the man, such as insulting her or asking about her name or her origins; finally about some of the many well-known names under which Lady Percht
appears to us in her many daughters, such as Sulamith, the beloved from the Song of Songs, or Yemoja, the mother of humanity in Brazilian Candomblé.
The one name that is hidden behind the title "Our Lady" remains just as unspoken as the Jewish YHWH.
The second section (red, "love") forms the heart of the oratorio and accompanies, in the six songs to my wife mentioned above,
interspersed with the six dances of the earlier "Wedding Suite" to the well-known motif from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's wedding march,
the twosome cohabitation of a Salige with her husband, about which there is nothing more to report than that it is long and happy,
but then abruptly ends when the man deliberately asks about his wife's origins and she disappears.
The third section (black, "woman") belongs first of all to the shocked man's beautiful memory of his first meeting with his wife
in "Maymento", a short ballet music made up of six dances to Marian songs in an amorous setting that I wrote many years ago
against the merciless demonization of sexuality in the cult of the Immaculate Conception. According to his dream, their children report
that their mother would live in the forest, where they could visit her every day and continue to be cared for by her until they were fully grown,
which makes the man feel an overwhelming joy that makes him sing a song of praise to the "liberated soul". The term comes from the Beguine
and theologian Margarete Porete (13th century). The grown-up children sing a farewell song of thanks to their mother, who, finally released
from her parenting duties, sets off to her kin, the Saligen from the mountain pasture.
In the epilogue, at the end of her life, the Salige joins the Percht's wild hunt, and the Trinitata canon of the three holy girls
ends the piece as it began.
CD reviews (in German):
09.07.2024 Alt-Neuöttinger Anzeiger (Website)
05.09.2024 MUH (volume 54) by Ulrike Zöller (MUH-Website)
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