Recently I remembered something important.

Back in high school, a piano major who had just graduated from a music college came to teach music for three months.

Her specialty was Rachmaninoff—a composer known for his technically demanding works—and she often practiced his pieces between classes.

Her playing was something you could never experience through a CD—it was powerful, raw, and real.

From delicate high notes like gentle rain to thunderous lows that shook the room, I realized just how expressive and magnificent the piano could be.

That sound became a lifelong challenge for me—something I still strive to emulate.

This piece is dedicated to that memory—it’s a reimagined piano version of a work I shared previously.

Requiem of the Evening Calm _ dual piano 4hands

Hope Belongs To Those Who Dare

Before Fall

Before fall comes,
I will give you this song.
What words cannot hold
must not be left behind in the heart.

For time, softly, without a sound,
will close its door.
When tomorrow arrives,
we can never return again.

Before fall

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What Tomorrow Will Bring

Faces In The Crowd

Whisper Of The Leaves

A memory at ten.
Two shadows stood by the lakeside.
The cold air brushed my cheek,
and the sunset on the water
burned as if aflame.

My father said: Do something for others.
Even when you are gone,
people will remember
what you gave.

Nine years later, my father passed away suddenly,
and now I have already outlived
the years he was given.

His words still drift across
the twilight water,
shimmering like a ghost
that will not fade.

十歳の記憶。
湖のほとりに佇むふたつの影。
冷たい空気が頬を撫で、
水面に映る夕陽は燃えるようだった。

父は言った──「人のために何かをしなさい。
お前がいなくなっても、
人はお前が与えたものを思い出す。」

九年後、父は急逝し、
わたしも今では彼の生きた歳月を
追い越してしまった。

その言葉は黄昏の湖面に漂い、
幻のように揺らめき続けている。

Remembering the Lakeside

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Volker Carl Jacoby - Autor, Poet, Kabarettist, Comedian, Liedermacher, Synchronsprecher, Journalist, Pastor - https://www.literaturland-saar.de/personen/volker-carl-jacoby

Author, poet, cabaret artist, songwriter, voice actor, journalist and even pastor: Volker C. Jacoby is active in many fields.

He spent his childhood and youth in St. Ingbert. Saarland, Germany, where he attended the humanistic and classical language branch of the State Secondary School. After university and various jobs, he began working freelance for „Saarländischer Rundfunk“ Radio, initially as a correspondent for the SR 3 regional news program, in parallel with his readings and literary solo cabaret programs. This was followed by roles as a narrator for radio plays, as a voice actor, and for various commercials.

In 1977, Jacoby teamed up with Schorsch Seitz to form the duo "Jacoby & Schorsch." Together, they primarily composed humorous songs in Standard German and the Rhenish-Franconian-Saarland dialect with a cabaret-like, ironic touch. Their dialect songs, in particular, filled a clearly existing gap in the market, especially since "SR 3 Saarlandwelle" featured them permanently on their programming, thus making them known to a wider audience. Subsequently, "Jacoby and Schorsch" produced three vinyl albums and three singles. During their tours, they also performed open-air gigs with rock bands.

Soon well known beyond the borders of Saarland, the duo received engagements in Berlin, Stuttgart (Südfunk), Cologne (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), Frankfurt, Munich, Basel, and Brussels, among others. During a TV recording at the Renitenztheater in Stuttgart, they also met Mathias Richling and Karl Dall. Jacoby collaborated with the latter several times for RTL on the radio show "Die schlaue Stunde." In 1993, the popularity of "Jacoby & Schorsch" peaked – not least through their appearances with Hanns Dieter Hüsch  (A "Hüsch Evening" with music in memory of his friend and cabaret colleague Hanns Dieter Hüsch was added to the repertoire – later in 2010).

He moved to France 1994. Since then, he has been performed readings, including singing. His dialect contributions have provided him with a rewarding outlet in the "Mundartring Saar" (Saarland dialect circle), including as a reciter of poems by deceased fellow authors, to whom he lends his voice.

Constantly prolific in literary terms, his poems are in the tradition of comic poetry in the style of Wilhelm Busch, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, Eugen Roth, Heinz Erhardt, and Robert Gernhardt. Volker C. Jacoby also publishes his poetry and prose on LiteratPro, Facebook, and YouTube. Since 2025, he has been setting his poems to music and is constantly writing new songs. And, of course, he continues to write his cheerful, humorous, and often very quirky poems.

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