Jörn Tegtmeyer: Diabelli-Contest 2014

NTRODUCTION

The Morse code to IRINI (Peace) was the topic in 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary ending the Second World War. Here the theme intially in both parts of the adapted three-part clear atonal composition, stresses the efforts to make peace as they are so often vital in crisis regions, for example on the border and in Europe's neighborhood.

The piano piece not only uses the inner rythmn of the Morse impulses but connects in a silhouette-like manner the external length of the individual letters to one another. This contributes in the first part to tranquil zones without having to expand the rapid thematical tone sequence.

In the third part, each individual letter maintains its own recognizable identity. The conveyed motor function would like to suggest the remaining open conclusion through the continuation of a finally reached state of joy, that in the long term alongside the desired changes, a perhaps unintentionally occurring social change (for instance through abandoned norms, loss of values, etc ...?) should also be critically scrutinized.