“Pavane Oubliée for harp and strings was composed in 1995. The piece lasts almost 10 minutes and has an anti-virtuoso character. The music is slow and introverted except in the solo passages for the harp. The title refers to the 16th-century Italian dance form on the one hand, and, on the other, the ‘oubliée (= to forget) refers to the idea of improvising on a motif from a song that has almost disappeared from memory. The piece has a fractal form, meaning that the length ratios of the individual movements are the same as the length ratios within one and the same section.”

– Theo Verbey