[3] The composer objects to reading only these names in his biographies, saying: "I was also a pupil of Mahler, Nono, Boulez, Stockhausen, of Bruckner and Wagner.

Famous jazz players influenced me: Miles Davis or the Art Ensemble of Chicago with Roscoe Mitchell or Lester Bowie.

"[4] Joneleit describes the influences on his music in greater detail:Anton Bruckner's sound monoliths and his ability to draw from silence; from here onwards, the line towards New Music, to the gesture of granting, letting flow, the way Morton Feldman teaches; but also to the gesture of rebellion which no one has so purely, so passionately brought to life as Luigi Nono.

Proscaenium emblematicum on a libretto of Michael Herrschel after Andreas Gryphius, premiered in 2007 in Stuttgart with the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Franck Ollu.

Hörstück für ein Theater der wandernden Gedanken und Klänge (Piero – End of the Night.

The opera was first performed by the Ensemble Modern, conducted by Yuval Zorn, in the Muffathalle as a coproduction with the Oper Frankfurt and the Experimentalstudio Freiburg.

Über das Denken hinaus (Metanoia: beyond thinking) on a libretto of René Pollesch, based on motifs from Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geist der Musik (The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music), premiered in 2010 in the Schillertheater to open the temporary stage of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.