“The competition ‘Jugend musiziert’ 1994 (Youth Making Music) provided the occasion for the composition of the ‘Märchengestalten’ (Fairytale Figures). The Youth Music School in Hameln, to which I owe my initial musical training and many formative experiences, asked me if I could contribute a contemporary work for a trio of pupils. Thus this cycle was written, beginning with the fairy and the idea of tracing this word with musical letters. The fairytale-like atmosphere is particularly created by ...