The composer Eduard Pütz (1911–2000) from Cologne was influenced by the composition technique of Hindemith and Stravinsky, yet he also admired Messiaen and valued the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. At the same time, he was fascinated by the means of expression of jazz music, and he looked over and over again for ways of achieving a compositional synthesis of these widely separated worlds of sound. Pas de deux which consists of three parts – Molto allegro, Andante and Tempo I – has been composed...