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«Lobgesang» is a short, humble piece for a small Instrument: soprano recorder. I wrote it in 2009 for the 90th birthday of my first music teacher Ilse Reil (1919-2013). She was a wonderful teacher and musician, she had a baroque trio and played the recorder (but also viola da gamba, psalterium, and she sang). I lived in her house, the recorder was my first instrument (before I learned the oboe) and soon, as a kid, I would accompany the old trio to their concerts and play with them. Ilse Reil has taught me the most essential things about music, even today they are still relevant for me when composing. How every note should be alive, be felt from within, should have a meaning,
