Volker Grimsehl: Diabelli-Contest 2016

Volker Grimsehl I was a jurist and publisher in my ''first life'' and actively enjoyed playing the cello so far as time (and energy) allowed me. I also found the the opportunity to compose. Mainly at night, when internal and external serenity was around me. Some of the works could even be performed by amateur orchestras. Now I am retired and should actually have more time for music but spend my time in a vacation house and sometimes at home. I am inspired by images during composing. Concrete images, for example the ''Images of Chernobyl''; paintings which were discovered by chance from unknown artists, which express the dispair of individuals who were directly affected by the nuclear catastrophe. They brought together a multimedia oratory for vocal soloists, chamber orchestra, narrators, and projection of images. Especially the phantasy images which were often the content of my compositions during the reading of a poem or simply resulted spontaneously.
Finally, the inconceivable ''Roses'' by Rainer Maria Rilke or ''The Adventures of Don Quixote''. The modest image in the ''Wessobrunn Prayer'' depicted by the simplistic great creation impulsively appealed to me. The ''non-existence'' of nature, which thanks to the ''Creator's actions'' is omnipresent around us, was necessary to be conceived in tones. I would like to experience eveything which I ''see'' with the sense of hearing. It has to remain audible and not just conceived or artificial. Therefore, the ear remains the unrelenting criteria for my music.