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It's true that especially lately I have mostly tended to write for solo instruments. But I have written for ensembles. I have a piano trio. I have written also for string quartet and string trio. I have also pieces for string orchestra, the latest a set of two sententiae and an Elegy. I have even written a concertino for guitar. Here are some links: I. Last pieces for smaller ensembles: Three Sententiae for String Trio Op. 325 (2020): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t39371/three-sententiae-for-string-trio-op-325/ Two Sententiae for String Quartet, Op. 321 (2019): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t37957/two-sententiae-for-string-quartet-op-321/ II. Medium-sized ensemble: Three Sententiae for String Octet, Op. 299 (2017): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t35159/three-sententiae-for-string-octet-op-299/ III. Larger Ensembles: a) Last two compositions for string orchestra (2018 & 2020): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t36499/two-sententiae-for-string-orchestra-op-309/ https://www.youngcomposers.com/t41632/elegy-for-string-orchestra-op-334/ b) Concertino for Guitar and String Orchestra (2016): https://www.youngcomposers.com/t33864/concertino-for-classical-guitar-and-string-orchestra/

Thank you Peter for your review and your ideas about my two sententiae. You are right, the title should be "sententiae". It was an oversight on my part. I will try to correct it as soon as possible. Regarding "selling [myself] short by composing only these short sententiae", let me correct you. I do not only compose sententiae but also longer pieces like soliloquies. In them there is a longer development of the piece and elaboration of the theme(s). Regarding "giving yourself an excuse not to develop your ideas", I look at sententiae more positively as valuable ideas in themselves. So the non-development of the idea is, in my opinion, a characteristic of the sententia and its theme. Perhaps unconsciously it might also be an excuse (or a characteristic of its composer, to continue the idea in the previous sentence). But I always have the option to compose longer pieces where I develop my ideas further. I had not mentioned in my opening post that the first sententia is based on a melody I heard a bird singing in my dream!

Yes. that's the intention of the work ... small streams of running/wandering water down a window pane.