Ohne Worte (“Without Words”) is a set of three lyrical pieces for English horn and piano that explores emotions lying beyond the reach of language. In a world of constant noise and connection, the music turns inward—an escape into solitude, stillness, and the vast interior landscape of being. Each movement evokes a space untouched by words: the wonder of starlight, the breath of quiet mountains, and the attentive silence where the inner voice is not spoken, but heard.

Structured as a contemporary sonata, Ohne Worte invites performers and listeners into a journey shaped by classical tradition and elements of the popular idiom. Each movement follows the architecture of modern song while employing classical techniques of development and transformation. A recurring musical idea suggests the perennial question of existence, unfolding across the cycle and culminating in a final movement where previously distinct voices begin to merge. What begins as a question gradually gives way to an answer, not found in words but in the sound behind sound, the resonance of silence itself.