Vie Nomade - Noten für Cello Solo Paul Wehage

This work is freely inspired by a missive translated by the Assyriologue Pierre Marello (to whom this piece
is dedicated) in the "Florilegium marianum", supplement to the N.A. B.U. (1991): a letter of complaint sent
to the brother of the writer where there is an conflict between two ideal: "the nomadic warrior´s life and
the bourgeois city-dweller´s life".

The piece begins with a free lyric passage, where expression is at the fore. In the central part of the work,
rhythmic and very structured motives lead towards greater and greater violence. After a short silence, the
freely-expressed lyric themes of the beginning returns, perhaps to suggest the immutability of Time and of men?