Butterfly Valley

Requiem for Inger Christensen

for for violin and orchestra

Duration 16 min.

award (composed within the scholarship for jung composers of the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony)

2009

When I was working on the violin concerto „Butterfly Valley“, the parts of the „Requiem“, the poem by the danish poet Enger Christensen appeared me as necessary textual basis and as kind of the poetic „relative“ of my own composition.

The violin concert „Butterfly Valley“ is the second of three composition devoted to the poet Inger Christensen, together with the string quartet „runnning thougnhts“ and the ensemble piece „Turquoise“.