The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
Transitional pieces: Mistel Album 2012
for two celli and percussion
première Bern 2012 – Trio Onyx
16'
Love & Diversity 2012
Music theatre performance for small ensemble
première 2012 Thessaloniki (GR) - dissonArt Ensemble
50’
Score
Gallery
Glück and Vergessen 2012
for cello, piano and iPhone-video
Composition commissioned by the Thürmchen Ensemble
première Cologne 2012 – Thürmchen Ensemble
7'
Guten Tag, wie heißen Sie... 2011
Poem for horn, violin and projection
première Bern 2011 w/ Noëlle-Anne Darbellay - Violine, Samuel Stoll - Horn
5-7'
pieces en passent: Schwalbe 2011
Audio-film for soprano/speaker, baritone/speaker/jogger, horn, percussion/noise-makers,
1 large fog horn, “staggered” acoustic interventions/live reinforcements, lay actors on the
bank and audience in motion (ship journey)
Composition commissioned by the City of Witten for the Witten Festival for New Chamber
Music (WDR)
première Witten 2011 - w/ Maria Meckel - Sopran, Cornelius Uhle - Bariton, Thomas
Meixner - Schlagzeug/Geräuschemacher, Axel Block - sound director, Martin Kammann - set
designer, Armin Leoni - production, Kaya Tsangaris / Manos Tsangaris - staging
Score
Gallery
Vivarium Reisen, Kochen, Zoo... 2011
For movement in space, voices, instruments and light
Score
Video
Final Match 2011
For three players with reinforcement
dedicated to Mauricio Kagel
Score
Ein Protokoll 2010
(Chronos versus Bien)
For clarinet and trumpet in B-flat, trombone, percussion, cello and light aspects
For the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Schloss Solitude Academy in
Stuttgart.
première Stuttgart 2010 – Asco-Ensemble
Batsheba. Eat The History! 2008/2009
Installation opera for actors, singers, choir and orchestral meander. Text in German,
English, Hebrew. Performance in three parts over two days.
Composition commissioned for the 2009 Donaueschingen Festival and by the Ernst von
Siemens Music Foundation for the Berlin version in May 2009.
partial première Berlin 2009 (Teil I and II)
w/ Julia Rempe, Timothy Sharp, Daniel Kirch, Kate Strong, Borjana Mateewa, Sascha
Borris, Mitglieder der Staatskapelle Berlin and der Orchesterakademie der Staatskapelle
Berlin and Gäste, Boris Anifantakis.
Gallery
Video
Libretto (german and english)
Tmesis 2008
(2 Blackouts)
for viola and light
UA Bern 2009 – Anna Spina, Viola
8'
Diskrete Stücke (discreet pieces) 2007
Multi-site theatre piece. Audio-scenes for solitary; commissioned by WDR
première WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz 2007 - w/ Géraldine-Aimée Graber - Darstellerin,
Carlos Robalo - Darsteller, Jan Reichow - Violine, Jessica Rona - viola, Kate Strong - "Die
Frau im Pater Noster", Francesco Agostini - actor, Dorrit Bauerecker / Florian Stadler -
Akkordeon, Stephan Meier / Thomas Meixner / Carlos Tarcha - percussion, Oliver Nitsche -
actor, Marlies Klumpenaar - clarinet, Christoph Thelen - horn, Truike van der Poel -
mezzosoprano, Immo Schröder - baritone
Score
Video: Double.Doppelporträt mit Vase (double portrait with vase)
Die Sonne so breit wie ein Menschenfuß 2007
Landscape drawing for moving and stationary light sources at night
première Festival Rümlingen (CH) 2007
Memento (Lots Weib) 2007
Music theatre
première Semperoper Dresden (kleine Szene) 2007
Botenstoffe. Orestie 2006/07
Multi-site theatre
première Schauspiel Cologne 2007
Video
Centralstation
Vom Außen and Innen der Städte
2006
Music theater
première Schauspiel Cologne 2006
Gallery
Labor 2005
Four compositions for soprano and ensembles, performances, living pictures, installations
and drawings; commissioned by the City of Witten for the Witten Festival for New Chamber
Music (WDR)
première Witten 2005 - w/ Dorrit Bauerecker, Axel Block, Renate Fuhrmann, Katharina
Hagopian, Patrick Hahn, Dominik Klingberg, Frank Koellges, Anja Lais, Jaki Liebezeit, Agnes
Mann, Thomas Meixner, Dirk Müller, Udo Moll, Ingrid Müller-Farny, Ivo Rose, ensemble
recherche, Klangforum Wien
Glück macht mutig 2004/2008
Stage music for choir with electronically processed vocal sounds and a speaker after texts
from the diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
Commissioned by Musica Viva at Bayerischer Rundfunk
première München 2008 – w/ choir of the Bayerischer Randfunk, Lothar Zagrosek -
conductor, Simon Stockhausen - sound director
34'
Ich bin nur scheintot 2004/2005
For chamber choir and electronically processed vocal sounds after texts from the diaries
of Hans Christian Andersen – commissioned by the Kunststiftung NRW
première Schauspiel Cologne 2005 - w/ Danish National Choir and Hotel Pro Forma,
Copenhagen
80'
Video
Bitte mit Bild 2004
For soprano, piano, text projection and video
première Düsseldorf 2004 – mit Maria Jonas - soprano, Pi-hsien Chen - piano, Thomas
Meixner - text projection, Axel Block - programming
première of the revised Version Berlin 2005 – w/ Katharina Hagopian -soprano, Pi-hsien
Chen - piano, Thomas Meixner - lying prepared cello, Axel Block - programming, Manos
Tsangaris - text projection, Martin Schmitz - production
32'
Drei Räume Theater Suite 2004
Music theatre miniatures for spaces with limited audience capacity, theatre for a house for
speakers, singers, instrumentalists and actors in ensembles of various sizes or as soloists -
commissioned by Südwestrandfunk (SWR) for Donaueschinger Musiktage 2004
première Donaueschingen 2004 - w/ Dorrit Bauerecker, Markus Boysen, Pi-hsien Chen,
Katharina Hagopian, Marlies Klumpenaar, Harm Meiners, Thomas Meixner, Dirk Müller,
Ingrid Müller-Farny, Dagmar Ondracek, Matthias Rebstock, Chiho Takata, Petra Torky et al.
Gallery
Die Döner-Schaltung 2004
Music theatre miniatures for spaces with limited audience capacity, theatre for a house
for speakers, singers, instrumentalists and actors in ensembles of various sizes or as
soloists
première Schauspiel Cologne 2004
Gallery
2 + 1 (Zwischenreich) 2004
for soprano, organ, percussion and light
première Cologne 2004 - w/ Maria Jonas, Margareta Hürholz and Thomas Meixner
Wieso wir das alles machen 2004
For two flutes, accordion, three helpers and light
première Neue Reihe Donaueschingen 2004 - w/ Carin Levine, Katrin Zenz and Stephan
Hussong
Ansage 2003
for flute solo
première Hannover 2003 - w/ Astrid Schmeling
17'
Hier and Hier 2003
For two players, voice, mobile light sources, radios, objects
première Hamburg 2003 - w/ Hans Schüttler and Carlos Schöppner
8'
Selbstleuchtende Landschaften oder: Fries / D' Fries 2002
For mobile spatial elements (pleasure grounds, pedestals, bonsai on wheels, etc.), tunable
marble run, light installation and instrumental trio (viola, 2 keyboard instruments with
percussion), for Andreas Gryphius' “Cardenio und Cylinde oder Unglücklich Verliebete”
(Cardenio and Celinde or Unhappy Lovers”. Variable duration
première Cologne 2002 – w/ ensemble members of Schauspiel Cologne
Orpheus, Zwischenspiele 2002
Multi-site theatre for soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor, small orchestra, projected
letters, 15 actors, at least 50 extras, Fadenorgel, lift, three underground trains and light.
Text: M. Ts. - commissioned by Bielefeld Theatre
première Bielefeld 2002 - w/ Victoria Granland, Katharina von Bülow, Charles E. Maxwell,
Simon Stockhausen and Bielefelder Symphoniker (Conductor: Carolin Nordmeyer)
90'
Video Pt.1
Video Pt.2
Video Pt.3
Tafel N 2001
Version of Tafel 1 for any number of performers, in pairs at tables
première Grünstadt 2001 - w/ workshop members of the Leininger Gymnasiums Grünstadt
(director: Silke Egeler-Wittmann)
30'
RELIEF oder Die Buchstabenrevolte 2000
Spatial poem for female speaker, violin (soprano), horn in F, harmonium, sampler (soprano
saxophone), non-speaking actor, stage installation, acoustic interventions, text projections
and light sources; commissioned by South-West Radio (SWF) for the 2000 Donaueschingen
Festival
première Donaueschingen 2000 - w/Petra Torky, Freya Ritts-Kirby, Pi-hsien Chen, Franck
Ollu, Simon Stockhausen and Martin Schmitz
40'
I n i t i u m für Ado and Elsa Müller 2000
for two speakers, organ, registrant (with percussion) and percussion; commissioned by the
Rümlingen New Music Festival 2000
première Rümlingen (CH) 2000 - w/Elsa Müller, Ado Müller, Christian Dierstein, Matthias
Rebstock and Pi-hsien Chen
30'
Haben Sie Zeit? 2000
For female speaker, male speaker, violin (voice), oboe (cor anglais), horn in F, harmonium
and percussion. Text: Karl Valentin; commissioned by Deutschlandfunk
première Cologne 2000 - w/ Hanna Schygulla, M.Ts. and Ensemble Modern (Conductor:
Kaspar de Roo)
27'
SCHICHTWECHSEL: Wie gehts Ihnen? 1999/2000
Spatial poem for female speaker (actor), lyrical soprano, ensemble, text projection and
light. Commissioned by the NRW KULTURsekretariat
première Cologne 2000, Bühnen der Stadt Köln (Halle Kalk) - w/ Petra Torky, Anna Maria
Pammer and Ensemble MusikFabrik (Conductor:Jean-Marie Adrienne)
70'
Glockenturm 1999/2000
For five-note chimes and light spaces;
commissioned by the Katholisches Bildungswerk Cologne
UA Cologne 2000, St. Agneskirche
17'
page 1 (2013-2018) // page 3 (1978-1999)
The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
Transitional pieces: Mistel Album 2012
for two celli and percussion
première Bern 2012 – Trio Onyx
16'
Love & Diversity 2012
Music theatre performance for small ensemble
première 2012 Thessaloniki (GR) - dissonArt Ensemble
50’
Score
Gallery
Glück and Vergessen 2012
for cello, piano and iPhone-video
Composition commissioned by the Thürmchen Ensemble
première Cologne 2012 – Thürmchen Ensemble
7'
Guten Tag, wie heißen Sie... 2011
Poem for horn, violin and projection
première Bern 2011 w/ Noëlle-Anne Darbellay - Violine, Samuel
Stoll - Horn
5-7'
pieces en passent: Schwalbe 2011
Audio-film for soprano/speaker, baritone/speaker/jogger, horn,
percussion/noise-makers, 1 large fog horn, “staggered” acoustic
interventions/live reinforcements, lay actors on the bank and
audience in motion (ship journey)
Composition commissioned by the City of Witten for the Witten
Festival for New Chamber Music (WDR)
première Witten 2011 - w/ Maria Meckel - Sopran, Cornelius Uhle
- Bariton, Thomas Meixner - Schlagzeug/Geräuschemacher, Axel
Block - sound director, Martin Kammann - set designer, Armin
Leoni - production, Kaya Tsangaris / Manos Tsangaris - staging
Score
Gallery
Vivarium Reisen, Kochen, Zoo... 2011
For movement in space, voices, instruments and light
Score
Video
Final Match 2011
For three players with reinforcement
dedicated to Mauricio Kagel
Score
Ein Protokoll 2010
(Chronos versus Bien)
For clarinet and trumpet in B-flat, trombone, percussion, cello
and light aspects
For the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Schloss
Solitude Academy in Stuttgart.
première Stuttgart 2010 – Asco-Ensemble
Batsheba. Eat The History! 2008/2009
Installation opera for actors, singers, choir and orchestral
meander. Text in German, English, Hebrew. Performance in three
parts over two days.
Composition commissioned for the 2009 Donaueschingen Festival
and by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for the Berlin
version in May 2009.
partial première Berlin 2009 (Teil I and II)
w/ Julia Rempe, Timothy Sharp, Daniel Kirch, Kate Strong,
Borjana Mateewa, Sascha Borris, Mitglieder der Staatskapelle
Berlin and der Orchesterakademie der Staatskapelle Berlin and
Gäste, Boris Anifantakis.
Gallery
Video
Libretto (german and english)
Tmesis 2008
(2 Blackouts)
for viola and light
UA Bern 2009 – Anna Spina, Viola
8'
Diskrete Stücke (discreet pieces) 2007
Multi-site theatre piece. Audio-scenes for solitary; commissioned
by WDR
première WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz 2007 - w/ Géraldine-Aimée
Graber - Darstellerin, Carlos Robalo - Darsteller, Jan Reichow -
Violine, Jessica Rona - viola, Kate Strong - "Die Frau im Pater
Noster", Francesco Agostini - actor, Dorrit Bauerecker / Florian
Stadler - Akkordeon, Stephan Meier / Thomas Meixner / Carlos
Tarcha - percussion, Oliver Nitsche - actor, Marlies Klumpenaar -
clarinet, Christoph Thelen - horn, Truike van der Poel -
mezzosoprano, Immo Schröder - baritone
Score
Video: Double.Doppelporträt mit Vase (double
portrait with vase)
Die Sonne so breit wie ein Menschenfuß
2007
Landscape drawing for moving and stationary light sources at night
première Festival Rümlingen (CH) 2007
Memento (Lots Weib) 2007
Music theatre
première Semperoper Dresden (kleine Szene) 2007
Botenstoffe. Orestie 2006/07
Multi-site theatre
première Schauspiel Cologne 2007
Video
Centralstation
Vom
Außen
and
Innen
der
Städte
2006
Music theater
première Schauspiel Cologne 2006
Gallery
Labor 2005
Four compositions for soprano and ensembles, performances, living
pictures, installations and drawings; commissioned by the City of
Witten for the Witten Festival for New Chamber Music (WDR)
première Witten 2005 - w/ Dorrit Bauerecker, Axel Block, Renate
Fuhrmann, Katharina Hagopian, Patrick Hahn, Dominik Klingberg,
Frank Koellges, Anja Lais, Jaki Liebezeit, Agnes Mann, Thomas
Meixner, Dirk Müller, Udo Moll, Ingrid Müller-Farny, Ivo Rose,
ensemble recherche, Klangforum Wien
Glück macht mutig 2004/2008
Stage music for choir with electronically processed vocal sounds
and a speaker after texts from the diaries of Hans Christian
Andersen
Commissioned by Musica Viva at Bayerischer Rundfunk
première München 2008 – w/ choir of the Bayerischer Randfunk,
Lothar Zagrosek - conductor, Simon Stockhausen - sound director
34'
Ich bin nur scheintot 2004/2005
For chamber choir and electronically processed vocal sounds after
texts from the diaries of Hans Christian Andersen – commissioned
by the Kunststiftung NRW
première Schauspiel Cologne 2005 - w/ Danish National Choir and
Hotel Pro Forma, Copenhagen
80'
Video
Bitte mit Bild 2004
For soprano, piano, text projection and video
première Düsseldorf 2004 – mit Maria Jonas - soprano, Pi-hsien
Chen - piano, Thomas Meixner - text projection, Axel Block -
programming
première of the revised Version Berlin 2005 – w/ Katharina
Hagopian -soprano, Pi-hsien Chen - piano, Thomas Meixner - lying
prepared cello, Axel Block - programming, Manos Tsangaris - text
projection, Martin Schmitz - production
32'
Drei Räume Theater Suite 2004
Music theatre miniatures for spaces with limited audience
capacity, theatre for a house for speakers, singers,
instrumentalists and actors in ensembles of various sizes or as
soloists - commissioned by Südwestrandfunk (SWR) for
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2004
première Donaueschingen 2004 - w/ Dorrit Bauerecker, Markus
Boysen, Pi-hsien Chen, Katharina Hagopian, Marlies Klumpenaar,
Harm Meiners, Thomas Meixner, Dirk Müller, Ingrid Müller-Farny,
Dagmar Ondracek, Matthias Rebstock, Chiho Takata, Petra Torky
et al.
Gallery
Die Döner-Schaltung 2004
Music theatre miniatures for spaces with limited audience
capacity, theatre for a house for speakers, singers,
instrumentalists and actors in ensembles of various sizes or as
soloists
première Schauspiel Cologne 2004
Gallery
2 + 1 (Zwischenreich) 2004
for soprano, organ, percussion and light
première Cologne 2004 - w/ Maria Jonas, Margareta Hürholz and
Thomas Meixner
Wieso wir das alles machen 2004
For two flutes, accordion, three helpers and light
première Neue Reihe Donaueschingen 2004 - w/ Carin Levine,
Katrin Zenz and Stephan Hussong
Ansage 2003
for flute solo
première Hannover 2003 - w/ Astrid Schmeling
17'
Hier and Hier 2003
For two players, voice, mobile light sources, radios, objects
première Hamburg 2003 - w/ Hans Schüttler and Carlos Schöppner
8'
Selbstleuchtende Landschaften oder: Fries
/ D' Fries 2002
For mobile spatial elements (pleasure grounds, pedestals, bonsai
on wheels, etc.), tunable marble run, light installation and
instrumental trio (viola, 2 keyboard instruments with percussion),
for Andreas Gryphius' “Cardenio und Cylinde oder Unglücklich
Verliebete” (Cardenio and Celinde or Unhappy Lovers”. Variable
duration
première Cologne 2002 – w/ ensemble members of Schauspiel
Cologne
Orpheus, Zwischenspiele 2002
Multi-site theatre for soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor,
small orchestra, projected letters, 15 actors, at least 50 extras,
Fadenorgel, lift, three underground trains and light. Text: M. Ts. -
commissioned by Bielefeld Theatre
première Bielefeld 2002 - w/ Victoria Granland, Katharina von
Bülow, Charles E. Maxwell, Simon Stockhausen and Bielefelder
Symphoniker (Conductor: Carolin Nordmeyer)
90'
Video Pt.1
Video Pt.2
Video Pt.3
Tafel N 2001
Version of Tafel 1 for any number of performers, in pairs at tables
première Grünstadt 2001 - w/ workshop members of the
Leininger Gymnasiums Grünstadt (director: Silke Egeler-
Wittmann)
30'
RELIEF oder Die Buchstabenrevolte 2000
Spatial poem for female speaker, violin (soprano), horn in F,
harmonium, sampler (soprano saxophone), non-speaking actor,
stage installation, acoustic interventions, text projections and
light sources; commissioned by South-West Radio (SWF) for the
2000 Donaueschingen Festival
première Donaueschingen 2000 - w/Petra Torky, Freya Ritts-Kirby,
Pi-hsien Chen, Franck Ollu, Simon Stockhausen and Martin Schmitz
40'
I n i t i u m für Ado and Elsa Müller 2000
for two speakers, organ, registrant (with percussion) and
percussion; commissioned by the Rümlingen New Music Festival
2000
première Rümlingen (CH) 2000 - w/Elsa Müller, Ado Müller,
Christian Dierstein, Matthias Rebstock and Pi-hsien Chen
30'
Haben Sie Zeit? 2000
For female speaker, male speaker, violin (voice), oboe (cor
anglais), horn in F, harmonium and percussion. Text: Karl
Valentin; commissioned by Deutschlandfunk
première Cologne 2000 - w/ Hanna Schygulla, M.Ts. and Ensemble
Modern (Conductor: Kaspar de Roo)
27'
SCHICHTWECHSEL: Wie gehts Ihnen?
1999/2000
Spatial poem for female speaker (actor), lyrical soprano,
ensemble, text projection and light. Commissioned by the NRW
KULTURsekretariat
première Cologne 2000, Bühnen der Stadt Köln (Halle Kalk) - w/
Petra Torky, Anna Maria Pammer and Ensemble MusikFabrik
(Conductor:Jean-Marie Adrienne)
70'
Glockenturm 1999/2000
For five-note chimes and light spaces;
commissioned by the Katholisches Bildungswerk Cologne
UA Cologne 2000, St. Agneskirche
17'
page 1 (2013-2018) // page 3 (1978-1999)