LDV200

The first naturally contrasts the unfinished natureof aset ofpieceswhoseexactdimensions we shall never know, with the feeling of accomplishment that nevertheless emanates from the work when we have got to know it. Other contradictions include the archaic form and the modernity of the import, its austerity yet charm, its constraint yet freedom, its rigidity yet mobility (direct, contrary or retrograde motion), the process and the inspiration - in short, order and disorder. As if generalised dichotomy and essential symmetries were the foundation of the vital principle of a piece of music whose emblem was the mirror.