Schenker's compositions include:
Vocal music •
Cantata I (text
Vladimir Mayakovsky, director
Hugo Huppert) for baritone and small wind orchestra (1967–1969) •
Kammerspiel I (from
Christian Morgenstern's
Galgenliedern and
Palmström) for soprano, tenor, speaker and chamber ensemble (1972) • Guide for budding lickspittles (text Vladimir Mayakovsky, Engl. Hugo Huppert) for soprano and clarinet (1974) •
The CHE Cantata (in remembrance of
Che Guevara, text for children's choir and instruments (1981) •
The celebration of peace (text
Karl Mickel), aria di bravoura for tenor and eight instruments (1982) •
Preparation of a Hölderlin ode (text Karl Mickel after
Friedrich Hölderlin,
Ronald Reagan and
Marina Cvetaeva), diary workshop for two voices, tape voice of a great mime and four instruments (1984) •
Michelangelo- Symphony (text
Michelangelo,
James Joyce,
Hermann Broch) for speaker, mixed choir, children's choir, organ and large orchestra (1985) •
Ge- Schwitters (text
Kurt Schwitters), five pieces for voice and saxophone (1986) •
Dream... Hope... A German Requiem, dedicated to Karl and Rosa (text
Jakob van Hoddis,
Johannes R. Becher,
Georg Heym,
Rudolf Leonhard,
Johannes Bobrowski,
Karl Liebknecht,
Rosa Luxemburg) for alto solo, baritone solo, speaker and orchestra (1988) •
Commedia per musica for large orchestra with children's choir (1989) •
First Allemande for voices and ensemble (1990) •
Paragraph AIDS (text Karl Mickel) Cantata for woman and man with instrumental ensemble (1990) •
Fourth Allemande, symphonic historical spectacle for choir, orchestra, solo guitar, two brass bands, speaker and tape recorder (1995) •
Goldberg- Passion (text Karl Mickel) for solos, choir, children's choir and orchestra (1999) •
goethefauszweisschnittchen (text Friedrich Schenker) for voice and two tubes (2001) •
The Dresden Practice of Art (text
Thomas Rosenlöcher), cycle for baritone and clarinet •
Les Trombones de Liszt (text
Alphonse de Lamartine) for voice, two trombones and orchestra (2004) •
The Twelve (text
Alexander Blok) for voice, oboe, viola and harp (2005)
Stage music •
Kammerspiel II Missa nigra (Latin mass /
Alfred Polgar /
Heinrich von Kleist /
Theodor Körner) for seven instrumentalists, conductor, actor, synthesizer, tape, live-electronics and visual artist (1979 Leipzig, Altes Rathaus) •
Büchner (
Klaus Harnisch) Opera for solos, choirs and orchestra (1979; 1987 Berlin, German State Opera) •
Bettina (Karl Mickel after
Bettina von Arnim) Opera for one actress (mezzo-soprano), children's choir, tape and ensemble (1982; 1987 Berlin, Theater im Palast) •
Les Liaisons dangereuses / Gefährliche Liebschaften (the same after
Choderlos de Laclos) op. ser. 2 acts for solos and orchestra (1993; 1997 Ulm, Theatre) •
(N(A(CH)T) (
Novalis /
Vladimir Mayakovsky /
Sergei Yesenin /
James Joyce,
Søren Kierkegaard) Theatre for ten instruments (1995; 1996 Witten, theatre hall) •
Johann Faustus (
Hanns Eisler / Friedrich Schenker) Opera for solos, choir and orchestra (2001; 2004 Kassel, State Theatre) •
Mord auf dem Säntis, chamber opera about a murder case of 1922, premiere on 4 June 2011 at the
Säntis Instrumental music Orchestral and concert work • 5 Bagatelles for trombone and orchestra (1964–1970) • Little Symphony for Strings (1969) • Concerto for oboe and string orchestra (1969–1974) • Triple Concerto (Overture, Variations and Finale on the Rocco Aria from Beethoven's
Fidelio) for oboe, bassoon, clarinet and orchestra (1969, rev. 1981) • Bassoon concert (1970–1975) •
Piece for Virtuosi I for orchestra (1970, rev. 1985) • Chamber symphony (1971) • Symphony (
In memoriam Martin Luther King) (1971) •
Electrization for beat or jazz group and orchestra (1973) •
Epitaph for Neruda for 18 solo strings (1973) • Concerto for double bass and orchestra (1973) •
Landscapes for large orchestra (1974) • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1975) •
Flute Symphony (1976) •
Sonata for Johann Sebastian Bach for large orchestra (1977) •
Orfeo – dramma per musica, pezzi concertati (1978) •
Fanal Spain 1936 (Hommage à Paul Dessau), Ballad for large orchestra (1981) • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1985) • Concerto for violin and orchestra (1986) • Music for wind instruments, harp, celesta and percussion (1988) •
Solo for a Percussionist with Small Orchestra (1990) • Divertimento (in veneration of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) for chamber orchestra (1991) •
...into infinity..., orchestral piece for large orchestra (1992) • Concert for 14 winds (1992) • Symphony for strings (1993) • U-Music No. 1 (Communicating Tubes), for trombone and brass ensemble (1996) •
...dal animato al presto..., music for orchestra (1998) • Oboe concerto (2002)
Chamber music •
Sextet for clarinet and 5 winds (1968) •
Trioballade for oboe, bassoon/violoncello and Piano (1968/69) • Horn quintet (1969) •
Hörstück mit Oboe for oboe and tape (1971) • String quartet no. 1 (1971) • Sonata for wind and percussion instruments (1973) •
3 Bagatelles for bassoon and clarinet (1975) • Solo Duo Trio for violin/oboe, violoncello and clarinet (1975–1978) •
Tirilijubili- piece for virtuosi III for small flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1976) • Frammenti di Orfeo for oboe, cor anglais, trombone, percussion, viola, violoncello and double bass (1978) •
Sergei Yesenin- Vladimir Mayakovsky- Recital for 8 instruments and tape (1979–1981) •
Orfeo: gioco- grido- canto, recitá for oboe and trombone (1980) •
Dona nobis pacem or At the new time for oboe and violoncello (1982); for organ and 6 percussions (1983), for large orchestra (1984) • String Quartet No. 2
(Omaggio á Michelangelo Buonarotti e Dmitri Shostakovich) (1983) •
Ach Johann Sebastian Bach, concerti funebri e furiosi for 2 oboes and instrumental group (1984) •
Good relation to horses – new approximation and Mayakovsky for 8 instruments (1986) •
Trio pieces for violin, violoncello and clarinet (1986) •
Microcosm for 2 oboes (1986/87) •
Quintet for clarinet and 4 winds (1987) •
Witchcraft to Freeze the NAVY version for 8 instruments (1990) •
Second Allemande for 6 percussion instruments (1990) • ''Age d'or'', metaphorical music (after
Arthur Rimbaud) for trombone, tuba, harp and violin (1991) •
Les Divertissements fantastiques des aventures musicaux for chamber ensemble (1993) •
Third Allemande (test- prelude to Beethoven's IX.) for ensemble (1994) • ''Les Chants d'amour des crapauds'' for violoncello and bass tuba (1994) • Trio for oboe, violoncello and clarinet (1998) •
Les Clarinettes des Vosges, Clarinet Quintet (2001) •
Communicating Tubes II for 4 trombones (2003) • ''RAVEN'S MUSIC (to Edgar Allan Poe's
Never More)'' for bass clarinet, violoncello/viola and percussion (2003) • String quartet no. 3
(The one from the mountain) (2005)
Solo forms •
Monologue for oboe (1968) •
Piano piece about ASCH (1972) •
3 pieces from "Livre pour piano" for clarinet (1975) • Solo I come una musica di balletto for bassoon (1982) •
Solo II for flute (1983) •
Ombre di Michelangelo for clavichord (1984) •
Solo III for violoncello (1985) •
Solo IV for percussion (1985) •
Solo V- Winter Music for trombone (1986) •
Danton fragments. Comments for that. (1988) •
Solo IV (Béla) for viola (1991), dedicated to
Eberhardt Klemm Improvised music •
Dal Ngai with the EUPHORIUM_freakestra among others
Günter Sommer, Hartmut Dorschner,
Oliver Schwerdt (2002) •
1 thigh, 1 codfish, beautiful summer in Birkenthal with the quartet "Endangered Species" and others Günter Sommer, Hartmut Dorschner,
Oliver Schwerdt (2003)
Movie music • 1991:
Radio play • 1980: :
Application to court – Director: (Radio play –
Rundfunk der DDR) == Awards and prizes ==