Compositions

Nymphéas (d’après Claude Monet) (2003) 10′ guitar 
Première Almería cathedral 2003 (Festival Júlian Arcas) 
​digital album Wulfin Lieske | Guitar Works 2017

Nympheás d’aprés Claude Monet was composed in January 2003 and was inspired by the painter’s late water lily pictures. As Monet confined himself to various shades of blue, the composition is based on a tapestry of eight tones, which despite the peaceful and improvised attitude of the work, is structured very rigorously – almost serially. In this respect it is similar to the complex knotting technique of an Oriental kelim and leads to a state of ‘meditative ecstasy’ as similarly manifested by Monet. The number 8 symbolises infinity and also the element water. “Nympheás” thus continues the series of “Water compositions”, which also includes the “Over the Waters” oratorio premièred at the EXPO 2000 in Hanover and choral work on Goethe’s “Song of the Spirits over the Waters” composed in 2001.