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Composed in: 2001
Instrumentation: violin, viola, violoncello, piano
Duration: 11 minutes
Publisher: Doblinger Music Publishers, Vienna, Austria (catalog # 07 244)
Commissioned by: Chamber Music Palisades
Premiere Performance: 10/23/01 at St. Matthews Parrish, Pacific Palisades, CA.
Ida Levin, vln; Evan Wilson, vla; Wilhelmina Smith, vc; Delores Stevens, pno
CD recording: Gernot Wolfgang, "Common Ground", Albany Records TROY 854

Score and parts are available through Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., your local music store, or can be downloaded in pdf format at music2print.

John Henken, The Los Angeles Times

" ... a striking piano quartet by Gernot Wolfgang ... His compelling solutions in Metamorphosis sounded neither forced nor artificial. At its core, the piece is a wild minor swing with Balkan Gypsy gestures and rhetoric."


Nis Kildegaard, Vineyard Gazette (Martha's Vineyard)

" ... a strikingly muscular and momentum-filled piece of music ... for many the highlight of a wonderful musical evening ... surprising, sometimes jarring - but never incoherent and never unmusical."