As enigmatically abstract and hermetically beautiful as Christian Ofenbauer’s music may occasionally be, so sensitively does it nevertheless react to the context in which it is created, to the performers for whom it is conceived, to its contextual framework. Granted, everything composed communicates, even if through an ostensible refusal to express itself. Yet Ofenbauer has numerous series of works that could even intertwine and whose components are interrelated, such as the series of BruchStücke (“BrokenPieces”) and the six Streichquartettsätze (“String Quartet Movements”); compositions that enter into a musical exchange, refer to each other or diverge, in which common ideas are renegotiated and events developed further. © Neos Music