This album contains my "early" compositions which I wrote between 1995 and 2003. I began writing music by experimenting with MIDI around 1994. A year later I completed the first more or less structured composition ("Opus 1") and shared it as a MIDI file on CompuServe. In the following years I focused on creating MIDI files of classical orchestral compositions by other composers ("renditions"). Encouraged by the example of others, I considered writing my own compositions, and in 1999 I decided to compose a piece as a response to an online challenge regarding the famous Wagner Tristan Chord. This composition,"Tristan and Siegfried meet Isolde", written as an entry to this challenge, was then posted on the MP3.COM site as an MP3 file. Since that time, I have often recorded live improvisations on my MIDI keyboard, mostly using the piano sample setting, but also toying around with other orchestra instruments. Based on these improvisations, I have then extracted some music material from them and have used these themes and motifs in a few more structured compositions. In 2001 I wrote the "Romantic Suite" (also available as a separate album), which also was available then at MP3.COM. Then in 2002 I wanted to write a suite in 3 movements with "Classical-Romantical Clichees". but I only completed one movement. This became then the "Elegia". If features a solo viola, of which I did have a relatively natural and expressive soundfont available. In the same year, I began again writing with "Classical Clichees" in mind, and this time I completed a 3-part suite. This "Classical Clichees", a Suite for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, would require actual live improvisations from these solo instruments. Since there was never a performance of this composition, it has never been released, and these live improvisations never materialised. Only recordings which highlighted the structure of this music existed, which were not meant to be listened to as performances, but which only have been made for compositorial purposes. The final work in 2003 was the "Song of Solomon" for Chorus and Organ. It also has never been released, but only a schematic recording has been made. A few years earlier I had begun to record German Christmas Carols and had created some variations on their musical motifes. The final official recording on this album is my 2001 version of a prelude to the German Christmal carol "Suesser die Glocken nie klingen". From 2003 on wards I became occupied with another project: participation in the US DARPA Grand Challenge, which left no time for music composition anymore, and for a few years I abandoned composing music. In November 2013 I decided to re-record all of these early works by using Garritan Personal Orchestra samples and release them here as this album.