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Directors comments Following a short term arrangement I met Professor Dr. Eugen Beck, son of the famous swiss composer Conrad Beck (“Tod zu Basel“) in his apartment in Lugano. Delayed because of traffic problems at the Gotthard I arriverd for the shooting at 2 o’clock in the early morning and to a Spaghetti dish which Eugen Beck served at the same time. Nothing had been discussed beforehand nor had the interview been prepared. All happened as it developed. Waking up early we had breakfast in the kitchen under grandmothers egyptian painting. Then Eugen Beck took me to the Musikhaus Bottega del Pianoforte in Lugano where he had a variety of pianos at his disposal. Together with Elena Schwarz at the cello, he played his fathers music as well as of other composers of his choice . Reaching way back into the end of the 19th century, the trails of the Beck family appear, fragmented and in veiled language transported by the music of his searching hand. And when language clearly shows its limits, it is the inner creative urge of Eugen Beck that transformes his message into a form of art that supersedes technical perfection. Jürg Da Vaz