The German composer, First Prize winner at the “Voya Toncitch Prize” International Piano Composition Contest in Paris in 1987 for his remarkable work entitled “365”. According to Mr. Toncitch “Lutz Glandien in his three-hundred-sixty-five-bar long masterpiece in its genus adopts esthetical principles of minimalism and repetitiveness with some adventitious, pertinent interventions of spacial – temporal succeeding elements masterly organized in a compact entity, whose psychological impact unveils states o mind: anguish, protestation, acceptance, reconcilement, expressed with some huge exclamatory dramatic accents and eloquent silences. Mr. Glandien’s work “365” is certainly one of the most important work of repetitive minimalism in the piano literature of the 1980’s.” Lutz Glandien’s work is published by Edition Peters in Leipzig.

Contribution by Jean-François Grancher <grancherpiano@onvol.net>.