Kritzendorf in Lower Austria, the Gesäuse in Styria – for Beat Furrer, these are two places for living and for writing music. On the one hand, a space conceived and built in cooperation with the architect Gerhard Steixner and, in a second phase, with Wolfgang Bürgler – an ideal scenario for creative work; on the other, a hunting lodge discovered in the midst of a nature reserve, located at the greatest imaginable distance from all kinds of “social noise”. Each place represents an architecture that provides and safeguards a space for writing music – going way beyond its mere function as a habitation.

Theses insights into the residences of Beat Furrer can be found in the book “Spaces of Reflection”. It is part of the limited-edition media box set FURRER 70 and also invites readers into his personal world of literature. Books are points, markers, promises, and atmospheres that refer to things beyond themselves. Click the button to order your copy now.