Works
- SPIRITS OF SIBERIA for trumpet, strings and percussion group
- God did not give us the spirit of fear
- VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS COME HOLY SPIRIT for choir
- HIDDEN WORLD OF DEMONS & SPIRITS for Sheng and Chinese Orchestra
- MAYIM CHAIM – THE WATER OF LIFE for choir a cappella
- SANCTA TRINITAS. ORATORIO Part 3 SPIRITUS SANCTUS - DOVE - WATER - FIRESTORM
- ORGAN SYMPHONY NR.12 VENI CREATOR for organ
- LUTHER, DEATH AND DEVIL electronic commentary, organ ad libitum
- KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS CD SPIRITS OF SIBERIA / LEPORELLO & GIOVANNI
- ODE TO HARMONY for Tenor & symphonic orchestra
- CD TOTENTANZ - DANCE OF THE DEAD Sacred Music Series Volume 1
- ODE TO HARMONY CULTURE Song for Voice, 10 Trumpets & Ensemble
- SANCTA TRINITAS Oratorio Triptych CD
- LUTHER MOSAIC for Soprano, Tenor, Oboe and Organ
- DUGUD Concerto No.1 for cello and orchestra
- EIN EWIG RÄTSEL - EPITAPH for cor anglais solo, bassoon and strings
- ORGAN SYMPHONY NR.16 MARTIN LUTHER for organ
- THERE IS FREEDOM! LUTHER-KALEIDOSCOPE for soprano, baritone and orchestra
- THE FREEDOM OF BIRDS for 3 trumpets & organ
- CONCERTINO „HARMONY“ for Bassoon and String Orchestra
- ORGAN SYMPHONY NR.6 TE DEUM for organ
- CD LAUDATO SI' - Music from Regensburg Music Serie Vol.13
- ELIA - THE SECRET WORLD BEYOND Prologue to Mendelssohn's Oratorio op. 70 Elias
- ORGAN SYMPHONY NR. 8 IN MEMORIAM Variations on Anton Bruckner's 8th for organ
- FATAL HARMONIES with LÁSZLÓ FENYÖ Works for Violoncello CD
- IKARUS. DESIRE FOR LIGHT Concerto for Piccolo Trumpet
- SALVE REGINA six female voices, organ and triangle
- MOZART & BEETHOVEN MEETING YIN & YANG WERGO-CD
- MUNDUS NOVUS - THE NEW WORLD Apocalypse (Chapter 21) for Choir and Ensemble
- SANCTA TRINITAS. ORATORIO Part 1 WE ALL BELIEVE IN ONE GOD (M. Luther)
- SOUNDS OF NATURE - HOMMAGE A SERGIU CELIBIDACHE for string orchestra and tape recording
- SIDDHARTA Concerto for Saxophone & Orchestra
- CD FREIBURG CATHEDRAL with Juergen Geiger Organ Symphony Nr. 8 & At The Edge Of Time
- THE SEVEN FINAL WORDS OF CHRIST for choir and ensemble
- PROPHECY Horsemen of the Apocalypse for 4 organs, 4 trumpets, 4 horns
- CITY LIFE Impressions for Orchestra
- ORGAN SYMPHONY NR.9 PATHÉTIQUE for organ
- CD NIGHT & LIGHT - Sacred Music Series Vol. 11 Music for Holy Friday and Easter
- SECRET OF TREES concert for percussion & orchestra
- REINHOLD FRIEDRICH - THE ART OF TRUMPET CD with works by Enjott Schneider
- GABRIEL – ECSTASY OF PURITY Oratorium für Sopran, Tenor, Chor & Orchester
- WATER ORATORIO for soloists, choir & orchestra
News
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WORLDPREMIERE "SPIRITS OF SIBERIA"
"SPIRITS OS SIBERIA" is fascinating with a world of shamanic Power and with omnipresent siberian Spirits at the festival ASIA - SIBERIA - EUROPE. Reinhold Friedrich (Trumpet) is celebrated with standing ovations. -
"CLAIR-OBSCUR" AND OTHER CDs
In 2018 were released five exciting CDs, - symphonic, large oratorio, chamber music, sacred music. Three of them end of 2018... and the latest is CLAIR-OBSCUR. COLORS OF SAXOPHONES with the Berlin saxophone quartet >clair_obscur< -
ASIA - Seeking the origins of culture
Asia, a longing for the origins of cultures that has been increasingly buried in Western civilization, has been fascinating for over 20 years. Encounter with old traditional instruments, with a concept of "Modernism" that is not as Eurocentric as our "contemporary music" stamped by Darmstadt, Donaueschingen or Adorno. -
CD Recordings 2019
On January 15th Naxos officially released the WERGO-CD "CLAIR-OBSCUR. THE COLORS OF SAXOPHONES" with the Saxopohone Quartet CLAIR OBSCUR and with best reviews. And immediately it continues with new CD recordings: The CD BERNARDUS recorded in Gdansk/Poland, WERGO-CD „MOZART & BEETHOVEN MEETING YIN & YANG“ in March with Jena Philharmonics and in April in Siberia Part I of "KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS" -
Mai 2020: INSIDE THE WORLD - MUSIK NACH INNEN
Just for my 70th anniversary released at Label ambiente audio: INSIDE THE WORLD - MUSIK NACH INNEN with some Highlights from the CD-series "Enjott Schneider - Sacred Music" -
composing composing composing
COMPOSING, COMPOSING, COMPOSING..... A lot of new works, new performances are the joy in composers life! -
COMPOSING AGAINST... AND DESPITE THE CORONA-VIRUS
Two "Corona works" were created around the virus, rehearsed via online rehearsals, and soon - finally - played live in the concert hall: For Beijing Symphony Orchestra in China the composition WUHAN 2020 SYMPHONIC POEM FOR ORCHESTRA, and for the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Katovice/Poland a work "IN MEMORIAM PENDERECKI": MAZURKA TRISTE. -
News Fall 2016 until Spring 2017
"Creativity as a whirlwind, news from end 2016 to spring 2017". So many concerts and world premieres, encounters with people and (natural) musicians, composition of new works, projects, ideas. -
2023 the first months - A firework of Performances
AUFFÜHRUNGEN UND PREMIEREN in der ersten Hälfte von 2023...Nonstop! -
New CD: KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS
With Label WERGO (Distribution: NAXOS) released in february 2020: two freshly composed Concertos, - the one with Reinhold Friedrich, who is playing extraordinary with three types of trumpets in the same composition, - the other with an usual combination of instruments in a double concerto. Artem Chirkov (Soloist of St. Peterburg Philharmony) plays his double bass from low to the highest violin-like ranges....And Mikhail Dzyudze, a multitalent beetween Folk, Rock & Classic, plays on his Contrabass-Balalaika... a gigantic and really unknown instrument. -
REINHOLD FRIEDRICH - THE ART OF TRUMPET
Vier Konzerte mit der Piccolotrompete im Mittelpunkt, gespielt von REINHOLD FRIEDRICH & Friends. Vier ausdrucksstarke und charaktereigene Kompositionen. im November 2023 von der ICMA-Jury für den International Classical Music Award "Bestes Album" nominiert. -
A LOT OF CONCERTS in 2022 - PART I: January till August
A lot of of concerts and world-premieres in first half of the year 2022 - after Covid19-pandemic the concert life was revitalized! -
ALBATROS - PORTAL FOR MUSIC OF NEW EARTH
"ALBATROS" - THE PORTAL...FOR MUSIC OF A NEW EARTH Don't fear contemporary music... there is a lot of finest music for a broad and worldwide audience... Music of the ALBATROS Like this amazing bird...with an impressive span, with a wide range, stylistically boundless, cosmopolitan, holistically appealing to heart and mind, spiritual beyond ego and greed for profit; always in search of transcendence, peace and the preservation of nature, but nevertheless vital, motoric, playful and with an excessive desire for liveliness... ...instead of machine & computer there is soul, freedom, breathing, love and life!
Calendar
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2. Mai 2020
HIDDEN WORLD OF DEMONS & SPIRITS in Taipei / Taiwan
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA-VIRUS - 2nd of May 2020 in Taipei Concert Hall (Taiwan): Worldpremiere of HIDDEN WORLD OF DEMONS & SPIRITS for Sheng and Chinese ORCHESTRA, Soloist: WuWei (Sheng), TCO Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Conductor: Yu-An Chang. -
13. Sep 2019
SPIRITS OF SIBERIA
13th of september 2019 in Philharmonic Hall Krasnoyarsk: World-Premiere (second performance) of THE SPIRITS OF SIBERIA. Concerto for trumpet & Orchestra, Soloist: Reinhold Friedrich, and the Orchestra of the Festival ASIA-SIBERIA-EUROPE 2019. Conductor: Martín Baeza-Rubio -
16. Okt 2013
DER GEIST DER MUSIK (The spirit of music)
16th of October 2013, 'Michaelssaal Munich' panel discussion VOM GEIST DER MUSIK (About the spirit of music) together with Prof.Dr. Philipp Harnoncourt (theologist), Oswald Bejeaun (Bayerischer Rundfunk), Host: Markus Thiel (Münchner Merkur) -
13. Jun 2010
Komm Heilger Geist (Come, Holy Spirit)
13th of June 2010, St. Clemens in Mayern, 'Dekanatschor' (cond.: Volker Kaufung) performs the choral motet KOMM HEILGER GEIST (Come, Holy Spirit) -
13. Jun 2010
Komm Heilger Geist (Come, Holy Spirit)
13th of June 2010, St. Clemens in Mayern, 'Dekanatschor' (cond.: Volker Kaufung) performs the choral motet KOMM HEILGER GEIST (Come, Holy Spirit) -
6. Mai 2023
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DEMONS & SPIRITS in Taipei
6th of May 2023 in Taipei/Taiwan, Zhongzheng Auditoriumwill finally be the worldpremiere of THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DEMONS & SPIRITS. Concerto for Sheng & Chinese Orchestra,WU Wei performs with the TCO Taipei Chinese Orchestra, conductor: Tsung Yeh