Plejaden – Sieben ähnliche Stücke (Seven Similar Pieces), Op. 56 (2002)
(for piano and orchestra)

Just as in the idea of body and spirit the body seems to be clearer, more tangible, more measurable and therefore more real, and yet the spirit shapes the body like water and wind shape the sand, so the spirit of a work of art can change us when it touches our soul. Or to use another image: as a composer, I am like an architect who builds a house for the music and hopes that the music will move into this house - not like the content into the form, but like the spirit into the soul.

Erhard Grosskopf (Translation Edition Peters)