The characteristics of his music...

The titles of his pieces often originate in literature. A title is a borrowed idea, a challenge, a reinterpretation, a source of inspiration as well as an elective affinity.

The contrast between a meditative sonority on the one hand - where chords suggest an ethereal atmosphere - and very nervous instrumental passages on the other hand, which require a high-level capacity of interpretation. While he is composing, Claude Lenners likes keep in mind the personality of the musicians he writes for.

The importance of timbres in the combination of instrumental colours as well as in techniques of composition.

An advanced research in the domain of phrasing, inspired by his studies of the phonetic phenomena of spocken language.

His sources of inspiration...

An interest in non-European cultures allows him to enlarge his personal horizon and brings him to a closer understanding of our own occidental traditions.

The idioms he collects in different languages help him to understand the mentality and the way of thinking of the different nations in the world.

For Claude Lenners, the game of chess is of fundamental importance. He likes to study the games of great champions and to work out "the best move". For Claude Lenners, composition and chess have points in common : the need for internal logic, the articulation and formulation of an intellectual process in time. Thousands of possibilities are imaginable; the chess player, like the composer, is constantly speculating about his own capacities, a fascinating activity, and a constant challenge to the intelligence...

He is very interested in speculative reflexions of contemporary sociology about the future of humanity. He is also intrested in any intellectual processes involving paradigmas which open up an infinite number of eventualities.

He dreams ...

of one day composing a piece which has, like sand on the beach, no beginning and no end. This piece will doubtlessly be dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. On the graphic level, the design of this score should be carried out so meticulously that the esthetical value stands on its own.