In 2026, the music world will celebrate Friedrich Cerha's 100th birthday. In view of this occasion, we would like to draw your attention to a selection of the most important works by the composer, who died in February 2023 - and to the website friedrich-cerha.com.

Numerous obituaries, some of them very personal, pay tribute to the life and work of Friedrich Cerha, who died in February 2023.

Composers of various generations talk about their personal encounters with Friedrich Cerha’s monumental Spiegel cycle.

The series of concerts celebrating Friedrich Cerha's 95th birthday culminated in August 2021: the monumental Spiegel cycle was performed at the Salzburg Festival by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ingo Metzmacher. We celebrated the anniversary with a collection of portrait articles, current links, and his video interview for the Stadtjournal wien.at.

Musicians who also express themselves in other artistic fields were at the centre of the Donaueschingen Festival 2014. A composer who many saw in a new light on this occasion is Friedrich Cerha.

Tagebuch and Orchesterstücke: In 2014, two orchestra pieces by Friedrich Cerha received its world premieres.