The opening on 3 September 1997 of the International Music Festival at
Hoefgen-Kaditzsch (near Leipzig) was a pure Phonola concert.

Author-acter Andreas Jungwirth moderated the concert, which took place
before 70 listeners with a Phonola Vorsetzer (loaned by Dr. Juergen
Hocker) playing the Bechstein concert grand piano.

The programme:

1. Lecture:  "The Mechanical Piano -- Composers and Compositions"
2. Concert:
 - Ernst Toch: The Juggler
 - Marcel Duchamp: Erratum Musical
 - Conlon Nancarrow: Studies No. 6, 16, 26, 36
 - Wolfgang Heisig: Heislvertonungen [Heisl-Settings], Premiere
 - Tom Johnson: Full Rotation of 60 Note Through 36 Positions,
     with projected slides
 - James Tenney: Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow
 - Gavin Bryars: Out of Zaleski's Gazebo,  Premiere of a
     setting for mechanical piano

Wolfgang Heisig

 [ Translated by Robbie Rhodes.  The article below, from Digest 970702,
 [ tells more about MMDer composer-arranger Heisig. ]