Musik für Tasteninstrumente und Orchester (1987)
(for keyboard instruments and orchestra)

This piece, commissioned by KölnMusik on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, was premiered in the Cologne Philharmonie on May 15, 1989.

It is a work of absolute music for 4 obbligato keyboard instruments and an orchestra of almost classical proportions. The composition can be performed with 4 grand pianos as well as with 2 pianos and 2 electric organs or harpsichords. I have not attempted to fulfill the characteristic laws of a concerto here. The indispensable cadenzas of the genre, the virtuoso runs and the idiomatic turns of phrase of a dialog between soloist and accompaniment are missing. Instead, the greatest possible coherence was sought in the texture of the keyboard instruments, as if these four sources were a single body of sound.

M.K.
(Translation by Edition Peters)