scenes based on Ovids "Metamorphoses" (1992/1994) Begehren, music theatre based on texts by Cesare Pavese, Günter Eich, Ovid and Virgil (2001) Invocation, opera based on texts by Marguerite Duras (2002/2003) FAMA, listening theatre in eight scenes for large ensemble, eight voices and actress based on texts by Ovid and Arthur Schnitzler (2004/2005) Wüstenbuch, music theatre based on texts by Händl Klaus, Ingeborg Bachmann, Antonio Machado and Lucretius, as well as Papyrus Berlin 3024 (2010) La Bianca Notte, an opera of characters in seventeen scenes based on texts by Dino Campana, Sibilla Aleramo, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Carlo Pariani (2015) Violetter Schnee based on a libretto by Vladimir Sorokin (2017) References Bibliography Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 985 pages, Beat Furrer, Musik-Konzepte: Issue 172/173, edition text+kritik (2016) Ender, Daniel, Metamorphosen des Klanges: Studien zum kompositorischen Werk von Beat Furrer. Bärenreiter-Verlag (2014). External links 1954 births Living people 20th-century Austrian composers 20th-century Austrian musicians 20th-century Austrian male musicians 20th-century Swiss people 21st-century Austrian musicians 21st-century classical composers 21st-century male musicians 21st-century Swiss people Austrian classical composers Austrian male classical composers Austrian people of Swiss descent Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize winners Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin People from Schaffhausen Swiss classical composers Swiss male classical composers Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz 20th-century Swiss composers 21st-century Swiss composers