Walter Zimmermann

About the artist

Walter Zimmermann (b. Schwabach, Germany, 1949) is a German composer. Zimmermann studied composition in Germany with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, the theory of musical intelligence at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (now located in The Hague), and computer music at Colgate University in New York. Zimmerman's works are infused by a personal adaptation of minimal technique. Whereas many early American minimalist composers were influenced in their works by rock

Top songs

  1. Abgeschiedenheit
  2. Wüstenwanderung
  3. Wustenwanderung
  4. 25 Kärwa-Melodien
  5. Schatten der Ideen
  6. Ursache und Vorwitz
  7. Echoing Green
  8. Distentio
  9. The Echoing Green
  10. Ländler Topographien: No. 1, Phran
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  1. Shadows Of Cold Mountain 3
  2. Gelduld Und Gelegenheit: Sala Della Pazienzia
  3. Gelduld Und Gelegenheit: Tyche
  4. Gelduld Und Gelegenheit: Hypernos (For Morton Feldman)
  5. Geduld und Gelegenheit: III. Tyche
  6. Geduld und Gelegenheit: I. Hypneros
  7. Keuper
  8. Geduld und Gelegenheit: II. Sala della pazienza
  9. Lied im Wüsten-Vogel-Ton
  10. Lied Im Wustenvogelton
  11. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 1, —
  12. Ländler Topographien: No. 2, Topan
  13. 20 Figuren-Tänze
  14. Beginner's Mind: Prologue (5 Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert): No. 1. Rossinis Einzug in Wien (Rossini's Arrival in Vienna)
  15. 10 Fränkische Tänze
  16. 15 Zwiefache (I)
  17. Ländler Topographien: No. 3, Tophran
  18. Wolkenorte
  19. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 3, —
  20. Der Tanz und der Schmerz (The Dance of the Pain)
  21. Beginner's Mind: Prologue (5 Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert): No. 2. Der Gefahrliche Freund (The Dangerous Friend)
  22. 15 Zwiefache
  23. Der Tanz und der Schmerz
  24. Erd-Wasser-Luft-Töne (I)
  25. Riuti (Rodungen und Wüstungen) [I]
  26. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 2, —
  27. Schatten der Ideen for Piano Quartet (1993)
  28. The Missing Nail At The River
  29. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 4, —
  30. Ursache und Vorwitz for five Instruments and Tape (1993-94)
  31. Lied Im Wüstenvogelton
  32. Festina Lente: I. Patientia
  33. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 10, —
  34. Distentio for String Trio (1992)
  35. Shadows of Cold Mountain 3 for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet (1997)
  36. Festina Lente: III. Poenitentia
  37. Beginner's Mind: Prologue (5 Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert): No. 3. Die Grosse Oberosserreichische Reise (The Great Upper-Austrian Journey)
  38. Die Sorge geht über den Fluß I
  39. Festina Lente: II. Occasio
  40. Ephemer (Original Version)
  41. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 8, —
  42. When I'm 84
  43. Aus Nah und Fern
  44. "Dit" (1999) for one cellist and Tape
  45. Festina Lente: IV. Regressus In Infinitum
  46. Ephemer (Revised Version)
  47. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 7, —
  48. 10 Fränkische Tänze: No. 9, —
  49. Seiltänze (Original Version)
  50. 15 Zwiefache (II)
  51. Fragmente der Liebe
  52. Die Sorge geht über den Fluß II
  53. Taula
  54. Dit
  55. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 8. Continue in calmness
  56. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 4. Lose yourself
  57. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 3. Go wrong
  58. AFUGAPE
  59. Wolkenorte (Original Version)
  60. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 9. Become the spur of the moment
  61. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 6. Burn yourself completely
  62. Beginner's Mind: Prologue (5 Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert): No. 4. Erneuter Asubruch der Krankheit (Renewed Outbreak of Disease)
  63. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 1. Gather everything
  64. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 8. Discover the now
  65. Riuti (Rodungen und Wüstungen) [II]
  66. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 2. Find perfect existence through imperfect existence
  67. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 5. Dissolve obstacles by constancy
  68. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 4. Limit your activity
  69. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 7. Create from emptiness
  70. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 9. Move the swinging door
  71. Ephemer
  72. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 7. Accept the past
  73. Beginner's Mind: Alter the consciousness: No. 5. Suspend your time boundaries
  74. Beginner's Mind: Alter the consciousness: No. 1. Adapt yourself to stimuli
  75. Erd-Wasser-Luft-Töne (II)
  76. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 3. Change mindweeds into mental nourishment
  77. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 10. Be self-sufficient
  78. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 2. Follow the yardsticks
  79. Beginner's Mind: Alter the consciousness: No. 4. Contract and expand your time sense
  80. Gelduld Und Gelegenheit II: Sala Della Pazienzia
  81. Quattro Coronati
  82. Beginner's Mind: Alter the consciousness: No. 8. Use up the unity feeling
  83. Sha ma yim – Skies
  84. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 5. Destroy what's around
  85. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 10. Repeat it over and over again
  86. Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind: No. 1. Let images come and go
  87. Gelduld Und Gelegenheit I: Hypernos (For Morton Feldman)
  88. the paradoxes of love (1987) für sopran und sopransaxophon
  89. Gelduld Und Gelegenheit III: Tyche
  90. Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old: No. 6. Forget what you've done

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