1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 •1985¹ … with a clearly structured end, which is a rarity these days  • 1985² [His] quartet … ultimately  expressed as much as its title did • 1988 … so that the displeasure must be blamed only on the composer • 1989 …. turned out to be the most problematic items on this evening • 1990 His compositions display a great sensitivity • 1991¹ At the beginning of the concert, [the] head of the culture department … had already announced a »work of stillness«. That was a big understatement. - ... • 1991² But what comes out is a musical nothing.  • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 A complex, sometimes playful kind of alchemy • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 The most impressive piece of the evening • 1998 • 1999 »Beautiful!«, whispered one listener spontaneously …. • 2000 Shades of the way Spahlinger treats instruments • 2001 • 2002¹ … like a monologue with an alienated echo … • 2002² … with very subtle devices involving deceptive and disconcerting sounds … • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 of an exquisite minimality • 2006 staying with the paradox • 2007 He confronted the questions reticently but not without some waggishness • 2008 … set off … on a kind of world trip in »Stück=Werk«; ... • 2009 • 2010 • 2011• 2012 That the composition then comes to an end, …, makes strategic sense. • 2013¹ In May ... he was even reported dead: the jury, which put his CD »Szenen, Standbilder ...« on the »best list« wrote – owing to a mix-up – of the »prematurely deceased composer«. Fortunately, this cheerful composer of serious music is alive … and can .. read the review of his works with his own eyes. • 2013² Once it had fallen under the spell of the stillness, the audience experienced … »Still« for the five stringed instruments guitar, harp, cimbalom, piano and double bass … as the high point of the anniversary • 2013¹ … you think you have been taken in by an aural hallucination … • 2014 • 2015 … is the sensation … • 2016¹ Even the gentle sound of a passing train quietly fitted into this strangely vulnerable cosmos • 2016² But the way this attendant representative of the birth cohort of 1956 fulfils the commission has rather little to do with festive sounds (nor does it have to) • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 ... reminiscent of linguistic gestures of old »Edgar Wallace« movies from the sixties (black and white!) … • 2023 • … To be continued …