LETTRE À L'IMMORTELLE BIEN-AIMÉE

Whether penned with a feather in the Middle Ages or sent via text today, love letters all seem contemporary: between their lines emerges the same fragile and incandescent human fabric, where fear and waiting mingle with anxiety, joy, hope, and frustration.

By translating this intertwining of emotions into sound, my Lettre à l'Immortelle Bien-Aimée gives shape to these timeless emotions and retraces the silent epic that everyone undergoes when they love—this truth of the heart beautifully condensed in the final phrase of the letters found in Beethoven's possession after his death, addressed to an unknown recipient: "Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours."

Version for bassoon and piano imagined by the composer.