Geisterkonzert (2025)
(for guitar and orchestra)

In 1841, Schumann originally wanted to include a guitar part in the Romanze movement of his Symphony No. 4. But he later revised the symphony and the guitar part was never realized. What if Schumann had later included the missing guitar part when he revised the fourth symphony in 1851? 

This would be a guitar part imagined through Schumann's increasing madness where Schumann had a deep interest in alchemy and often spoke of ghostly visitations.

Geisterkonzert is a reworking of Schumann's Romanze movement where the guitar part is reconstructed, or invoked as in the spiritualistic séances that Schumann was fond of attending, as a solo part, transforming the Romanze movement into a fantastic guitar concerto. This concerto gradually brings the "missing" guitar part of Schumann's Fourth Symphony back from the darkness.