Bruttger-Circlulation (S-n4)-4C/Cro/P (OS)

A work for percussion quartet. The instrumentation is standard across the 4 players

Number of Players: 4
Difficulty: Grade 5+
Instrumentation:

Player I: Cabasa, Vibra-Slap, Guiro Woodblock, Temple Block, Triangle, Chimes, Flex-a-tone, Antique Cymbal, Vettophone, Gongs, Tam-Tam, Sizzle, Becken, Kleine Trommel, Tom-Tom, Be Trommel

Player II:Cabasa, Vibra-Slap, Guiro Woodblock, Temple Block, Triangle, Chimes, Flex-a-tone, Antique Cymbal, Vettophone, Gongs, Tam-Tam, Sizzle, Becken, Kleine Trommel, Tom-Tom, Be Trommel

Player III: Cabasa, Vibra-Slap, Guiro Woodblock, Temple Block, Triangle, Chimes, Flex-a-tone, Antique Cymbal, Vettophone, Gongs, Tam-Tam, Sizzle, Becken, Kleine Trommel, Tom-Tom, Be Trommel

Player IV: Cabasa, Vibra-Slap, Guiro Woodblock, Temple Block, Triangle, Chimes, Flex-a-tone, Antique Cymbal, Vettophone, Gongs, Tam-Tam, Sizzle, Becken, Kleine Trommel, Tom-Tom, Be Trommel

Player V: Marimba, 32" Timpano, 3 Snare Drums,Cym, Tam-Tam, 16 Almglocken

Thomas Bruttger was born in Viersen/Germany in 1954 and studied music teaching and musicology, later composition with N.A. Huber at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen/Germany. Already during his course, he recieved the Folkwangprize for composition. Supported by a scholarship from the DAAD, he took a course in composition with Iannis Xenakis at the Sorbonne. At the same time he attended lectures in music analysis by Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez. In 1985-88 he was editor at the publishing house Bärenreiter in Kassel/Germany, where he co-founded the "Kassel composers initiative" and organized numerous concert of national and international renown, e.g. as part of the "document IX" Since 1988 he teaches at the Folkwang Hochschule.