In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promised to compose her a cycle for her new beginning: 34 miniatures, some of them with a direct connection to her paintings and sculptures. The main part of Kosmos was composed in 2014, 400 years after Albrecht Dürer created his copperplate engraving ‘Melencolia I’, in which a magic square appears. In a...

• I Toscana (Malerin vor der Leinwand)
• II Elfentanz (Solo für Spinnweb)
• III Abigails Augen
• IVa Orpheus I (Liebeslied für Euridike)
• IVb Orpheus I (Gang in die Unterwelt)
• V Die unbeantwortete Frage
• VI Tanz im Skulpturengarten
• VII Nachtlied für Momo
• VIII Schlafende Löwin mit roten Haaren
• IX Sauls Seufzer
• X Das große Lächeln
• XI Nachklänge (Erinnerung an Oswald von Wolkenstein)
• XII Venezianische Skizze (1) (Schwankende Gondeln)
• XIII Der Gang zum dunklen Tor
• XIV La bela tja...