“All my music has grown out of a vague supernatural sound. As a fourteen-year-old boy I heard the invisible fluttering of owl’s wings in the summer night. This was the starting-point for all my music.” Throughout his life, Harald Sæverud’s was one of the most distinctive figures on the Norwegian music scene. His desire to express himself and to seek unique solutions to the artistic challenges presented by each new work, gave rise to a personal musical idiom. Sæverud’s music tends not to describe the grand Norwegian scenery of mountains and fjords, but focuses on nature and the human moods reflected in it, incorporating Norwegian folk-lore and legends.