Although Simeon ten Holt (born in Bergen in 1923) has gone through several phases of composition, he is best known for repetitive piano works such as "Canto ostinato" (1976-1979) and "Lemniscaat" (1983). The composition "Palimpsest" (according to Van Dale: parchment scroll or ostraka that have been re-written after scraping or making the originally written invisible) from 1993 is an exception to
… the extent that this is not piano music but a work for seven strings. Simeon ten Holt wrote, among other things, as an explanation: "The piece seems to have been dug up from the various layers from which it is composed. Scripture about writing, document about document of which one confirms or conceals the other. I have chosen the title" Palimpsest ".more
