Compositions

Four Bagatelles on 52 (1998/2007) 7′
guitar
Premiere Wuppertal 1999, Wulfin Lieske
digital album Wulfin Lieske | Guitar Works 2017

Four solo pieces of moderate difficulty resulted from work on my composition “52stein” work – based on the same series of 52 tones. After the first lyrical miniature, the second movement – in homage to György Kúrtag – is devoted to expressions of extreme states, from stasis to eruptive drama. This is followed by a toccato-like chord study in a rigorous metric-processual structure that intensifies from regular beats to highly virtuoso arpeggios. The finale is formed by a cavatina as homage to my friend, sculptor Barna von Sartory, in which the series is played backwards.