im Donner der Zeit
2021
“So what is ‘time’? If no one asks me about it, I know;
if I want to explain it to a stranger, I don’t know.”
- Augustine, Confessiones XI, 14 -
Time runs, indeed, it races – and then again it stops and the seconds pass barely perceptibly like single drops of viscous pitch. Time can be gained and time can be lost – it can be stolen, but it can also be given away. But you cannot grasp it, you cannot stop it: everything flows and the inevitability of this flow is what life is all about.
Time cannot be held, cannot be tasted, cannot be smelled, and cannot be seen. But just when it seems to stop, when the minutes turn into hours, when there seems to be no more movement but only standstill – then it can be heard: the expansive, thunderous, deafening, terrifying thunder of time.
Dorothea Hofmann
Separate edition from the collection Orgelmusik in Zeiten von Corona (Carus 18.220/00)
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Dorothea Hofmann
| 1961The works of pianist, composer and musicologist Dorothea Hofmann, born in Bamberg in 1961, have already been performed in Australia, Brazil, South Korea and Japan, among other places. Her extensive repertoire includes orchestral works and chamber music as well as songs, choral and solo works. Hofmann was awarded a prize for piano at the international Gaudeamus Interpreters’ Competition in Rotterdam in 1993, and in 2007 she received the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza Artist Fellowship in Venice as a composer. She studied choral conducting, piano, philosophy and musicology in Munich, Salzburg and Augsburg and now teaches as a professor of musicology and music sociology at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. Personal details
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