Kempf, Davorin: Piano & Chamber music

I view the creative endeavour as a process which is part conscious and part subconscious or unconscious. Music is born in one’s spirit, and the ideas we draw from our inner being — with all their refl ections the sources of which we are unable to identify — are fi ltered through our individuality. The process of composing entails the recognition of possibilities (the more creative one is the more possibilities one sees), followed by the selection of some of these

possibilities — and that selection implies a certain artistic–cum–aesthetic criteria. Every effort made by a composer to reach a solution, or rather the form — since a piece of music is realized through a form — is an effort to achieve harmony between the organization of sounds in the passage of time and his vision. Integrated into my own poeticism of music is the yearning for beauty. And beauty, needless to say, has a number of faces and therefore cannot be unequivocally defi ned, but without its aura music as art for me is inconceivable.

(Davorin Kempf)