The Sacher hexachord (6-Z11, a musical cryptogram on the name of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher) is a hexachord notable for its use in a set of twelve compositions (12 Hommages à Paul Sacher) created at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich for Sacher's seventieth birthday in 1976.
The twelve compositions include Pierre Boulez's Messagesquisse, Benjamin Britten's Tema "Sacher", Hans Werner Henze's Capriccio, Witold Lutosławski's Sacher Variation, and Henri Dutilleux's Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher.Steven Stucky, Lutosławski and His Music (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981): 97. .Robin Stowell, The Cambridge Companion to the Cello (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999): 144. . Further, Boulez's Répons, Dérive 1, Incises and Sur Incises all use tone rows with the same pitches.Edward Campbell, Boulez, Music and Philosophy. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 206. .
The hexachord's complement is its Z-relation, 6-Z40.
See also Schoenberg hexachord
References
External links "eSACHERe World Premiere of unique set of 12 works, solo cello: František Brikcius", mfiles.co.uk