Apollonian sonatine (for double wind quintet)
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Rotundello
3. Fuga al inversione (Allegretto scherzando)
Composed in Apeldoorn
See also (piano reduction): www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number MNmfIII/0849
His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres.
by Frans van Ruth