Wellen

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"Because the beautiful is nothing but the terrible beginning, which we can just endure, and we admire it because it calmly disdains to destroy us." World War I as the backdrop for a radical critique of utopia that foreshadowed the catastrophes of the 20th century. Far away from the routines of everyday life, the longings and dreams of self-realization of a life-hungry dropout, a self-appointed artist and a privileged pupil of the rich and powerful grow immeasurably. The sheer overwhelming power of the sea soon reveals all the “great feelings” as delusional illusions. The composer Elmar Lampson, a master of dreamlike sound magic located in the dying no man's land between tonality and atonality,