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C. René Hirschfeld

The reason for me to make music is the fascination of sound and rhythm and I have never accepted boundaries in my musical work because I think the commitment to a certain style consequently leads to a limitation of musical means, thus to a limitation of the expressions possible. More important to me is, to speak my own musical language, that however can use very different stylistic means. So I write and play contemporary music, and as a violinist I also play music of the baroque, which again influences my work as a composer, especially in terms of form. But I also write and play Tango music and have written many songs and chansons.

Beauty to me is not a matter of consonance or dissonance and I am not interested in categories like avantgarde or old fashioned, serious or entertaining.

The amazing thing about art - and maybe this can be said about music to an even greater extent, as music appears to work in a more abstract way - the amazing thing about art for me is the chance to create an entirely new world, with its own logic, its very own relation to tome and space.Beauty then comes into being when this artificial world is working in maximum inherent harmony, in „perfect form“ one could say,but this is not just about completed structure: if even the incomprehensible lying beyond all measurable structures is finding its way within that new world, a work of art comes into living and is beautiful.

To me music is the art that to the greatest extent is capable of stimulating body, emotion and mind equally.

Even if music has become utterly artificial her roots lie in archaic expressions such as singing, hand clapping and foot stamping, or, as Rudolf Arnheim puts it: „The basic phenomenon of art is still the simple sensual joy given by a fat dab of paint and a full cello-sound“.

Therefore, in spite of all structural work and experiment, music always should be an emotional and physical experience.