Harald Genzmer has done a lot for the work with young musicians, and many a string player can recall school orchestra days when Sinfonietta was on the programme quite often. But the probably best-known pupil of Hindemith has written far more of such educational music: all in all, 3 sinfoniettas, apart from collections of simple settings like the eleven Character Pieces for String Orchestra from 1998. They are expressive, entirely songlike miniatures, livened up by two rousing pieces and a pizzic...

• Klage
• Ballade des Guillaume di Vernier (1225)
• Lyrisches Stück
• Melodie
• Lied des Troubadours
• Intermezzo
• Unmut
• Blick in die Ferne
• Stürmisch bewegt
• Der 7/8-Takt
• Pizzicato