The Calm of Mountains takes its title from W.H.Auden’s poem ‘Herman Melville’. The poem begins:
Towards the end he sailed into an extraordinary mildness,And anchored in his home and reached his wifeAnd rode within the harbour of her hand […]In the penultimate verse, Auden writes:
He stood upon the narrow balcony and listened:And all the stars above him sang as in his childhood“All, all is vanity”, but it was not the same;For now the words descended like the calm of mountains […]The Calm of Mountains was written in 2017 and 2018 for Florian Steininger; it is dedicated to him and to the memory of Horațiu Rădulescu. It lasts about 14 minutes.
A recording of this work is available on
Music for Piano (John Snijders - piano) from Hat Hut Records.
- ISMN: 9790570683710 (M570683710)