Lera Auerbach · Featured
In Focus
Current highlights across music, literature, and visual art — three equal windows into Lera Auerbach’s work as composer, writer, and artist.
Konzerthaus Dortmund · 2026/27
Zeitinsel — Lera Auerbach
The 2026/27 Zeitinsel Festival at Konzerthaus Dortmund is dedicated to Lera Auerbach, presenting her work across chamber music, choral writing, large-scale orchestral music, and performance.
Virgola Press · Novel
Mirror — A Novel in Reflections
A novel shaped by reflection. Twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes form a cycle of memory, childhood, myth, loss, and the inner life of time.
Visual Art · Bronzes
Bronze Sculptures
Bronze becomes a counterpoint to fragility and transience: a material of permanence carrying forms that speak of tension, vulnerability, myth, and transformation.
Lera Auerbach · Literature
Books
Novels, poetry, aphorisms, and children’s literature — a literary catalogue shaped by music, memory, image, language, and the inner architecture of time.
Mirror
A novel composed in twenty-four preludes and twenty-four postludes, where memory, childhood, myth, and musical form become a chamber of reflections.
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Forever Music
Short poems from the perspective of a child discovering the world through music, memory, dreams, and creative wonder.
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Hanover Notebook
Selected poetry and prose with a foreword by Sergey Yurski — an early literary volume from Auerbach’s Russian-language catalogue.
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Stairs to Eternity
A collection of selected poetry and prose, carrying the early lyric intensity and metaphysical reach of Auerbach’s writing.
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Sorokolunie
Poetry and prose written between 1984 and 1994 — an expansive early volume of Russian-language writing.
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Excess of Being
A collection of aphorisms and visual works, joining philosophical compression with the immediacy of image and line.
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A Is for Oboe
A children’s poetry book introducing the instruments of the orchestra through imagination, rhythm, and musical character.
moreLera Auerbach · Six Symphonic Worlds
The Symphonies
Enter six distinct symphonic worlds—each shaped by its own dramatic scale, sound, poetry, and inner architecture. Select a work to listen, read, and explore.
Symphony No. 1
Hybrid forms and shifting identities unfold within a purely orchestral frame.
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Poetry, mourning, and memory converge as solo voices, chorus, and orchestra become intertwined dramatic presences.
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A solo violin enters a surreal theatrical menagerie, moving between protagonist, storyteller, and unruly child.
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A musical encounter with the Arctic transforms piano, chorus, orchestra, water, ice, and resonance into a ritual of beauty and warning.
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A concentrated orchestral span shaped by the vast literary and metaphysical resonance of its title.
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Solo cello, chorus, orchestra, and whispered voices form a shifting architecture of memory, breath, and resonance.
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The Bronzes
Fourteen sculptural works in which gesture, vulnerability, memory, and transformation take physical form.
Hear Me
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Despair
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Dreaming of Flying
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Hold Me
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Moonrider
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NYX
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Raising
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Totentanz
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Motherhood
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Vowed for Life
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Perfect Harmony
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Violinist
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Bashmachkin
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Scrying Pond
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Concerts, premieres, readings, performances, and appearances — automatically drawn from the calendar and Mirror pages.
