title: Eduard Pütz
text: # Eduard Pütz
  
  Eduard Pütz (13 February 1911, in Illerich – 18 January 2000, in Bad Münstereifel) was a German composer and music teacher.
  
  ## Selected works
  
         Pütz's scores are published by Schott Music, Edition Tonger, Tonos Musikverlag and Hans Gerig Verlag.
  
  ### Opera
  
  * Riders to the Sea, Opera in 1 act (1972); libretto by Heinrich Böll after John Millington Synge
  
  ### Orchestral
  
  * Invention für Barbara for string orchestra (1956)
  * Concerto grasso for string orchestra and jazz-combo (1981)
  * Blue Fantasy (1996)
  * Tagebuchblätter aus Frankreich
  
  ### Concertante
  
  * Concerto giocoso for piano and orchestra (1979)
  * Pyrenäen-Rhapsodie (Pyrenees Rhapsody), 3 Impressions for piano and orchestra (1984)
  * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1985)
  * Romanze for alto saxophone, cello, string orchestra and percussion (1989)
  
  ### Chamber music
  
  * Sonatina for cello and piano (1963)
  * Improvisation modale for flute and piano (1964)
  * Nugae, 7 Little Pieces for recorder, celesta and guitar (1969)
  * Ballade für T.S. for guitar (1973)
  * Tenso for shakuhachi and guitar (1975)
  * 5 Poèmes for violin and piano (1978)
  * Canto épico for string quartet (1981)
  * Die Marionetten der Ree Loo, Garden Music for violin and piano (1983)
  * Meditationen for viola and guitar (1983)
  * Frammenti for 4 violas (1986)
  * Cries in the Dark, Blues for saxophone and string quartet (1986)
  * Lydian Romance for cello and piano (1986)
  * "O Welt...", Quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello (1987)
  * Sonata for 7 cellos (1988)
  * Sonata for viola and piano (1988)
  * Arabeschi capricciosi for flute and guitar (1989)
  * Funny Serenades for violin and piano (1989)
  * Traumstück for viola and harp (1989)
  * Adagietto for cello and piano (1990)
  * Blues for Benni for viola and piano (1991)
  * Blues Fantasy for 6 cellos (1991)
  * Dancing Strings for string quartet (1991)
  * Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (1991)
  * Tango passionato for 4 cellos (1992)
  * Capricious Waltz for flute and piano (1993)
  * Twilight Dream for violin and piano (1993)
  * Notturno pastorale for oboe and piano (1993)
  * Short Stories, 10 Little Pieces for cello and piano (1994)
  * Serenade for treble recorder and accordion (1994)
  * String Quartet No. 2 (1994)
  * Piano Trio (1996)
  * Why?, Impressions for 4 saxophones (1996)
  * Blue Waltz for flute and piano (1997)
  * Jazz Capriccio for alto saxophone and piano (1998)
  
  ### Harpsichord
  
  * Suite baroque for harpsichord (or piano) (1977)
  
  ### Organ
  
  * Rosa mystica
  
  ### Piano
  
  * Sonatina in B♭ (1945)
  * Frohes Musizieren, 6 Little Pieces for piano 4-hands (1947)
  * Auf dem Rummelplatz, Musik für Hansmartin, Little Pieces (1948)
  * Fünf Bagatellen (5 Bagatelles) (1950)
  * Sonatina in F (1960)
  * Hälfte des Lebens, Klavierstück in 2 movements after a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin (1975)
  * Litaniae alle cinque (1976)
  * Mr. Clementi Goin' on Holidays, Short Exercises in Blues and Rock Styles (1976)
  * Toccata bruta (1976)
  * Capriccio, Notturno und Blues (1980)
  * 12 Präludien zum Gebrauch an Sonntagnachmittagen (12 Preludes for Use on Sunday Afternoons) (1984)
  * Sentimental Serenades (1987)
  * I'm Sorry, Mr. Czerny, Little Jazz and Jazz-related Pieces (1988)
  * Jazz Sonata (1988)
  * Let's Swing, Mr. Bach!, 6 Piano Pieces in "Play-Bach" Style (1991)
  * Pas de deux, Petit Ballet for piano 4-hands (1991)
  * Waltzing the Blues, 3 Jazz Waltzes (1991)
  * Young People's Music Box, 12 Easy Pieces (1992)
  * Nachtstücke (Night Music) (1993)
  * Let's Play Together, 10 Jazzy Pieces for piano 4-hands (1994)
  * How about That, Mr. Offenbach!, Can-Can Fantasy (1995)
  * Valsette (1996)
  * Jazz-Sonatine (1998)
  * Take It Easy, 3 Little Piano Pieces in Jazz Style (2000)
  
  ### Vocal
  
  * When We Dead Awaken for soprano, flute, electric guitar, electric piano, percussion and double bass (1974); words by Rudi Holzapfel
  * Requiem im Park for mezzo-soprano, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello, piano and bongos (1980); words by Ursula Claude
  * Melodie am Abend for baritone and piano (1981)
  
  ### Choral
  
  * Johnny John, 5 Impressions for male chorus (1964); words by Hansjochem Kunze
  * Der irre Spielmann for mixed chorus (1993); words by Joseph von Eichendorff
  * Requiem nach Texten des alten und neuen Testamentes for soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1994)
  