Sensus

Regarding his composition Sensus (2020), a work for 24 voices with text verses from the Letter of Paul to the Romans that was nominated for the Latvian Grand Music Award, Auznieks says: “Feeling, mind and thought are equally present within the title ‘sensus’, and it is beautiful that the mind is not opposed to the heart, but that both coexist in one word. May these three thoughts guide our way:
- We are nothing; what we seek is everything. (Friedrich Hölderlin)
- Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am
drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home. (Friedrich Schleiermacher)
- Neither our knowledge nor our action reaches, in any period of existence, the point where [..] all is one; the
definite line unites with the indefinite only in infinite approximation. (Friedrich Hölderlin)”

Lauma Malnace (SKANI: LMIC 163, 2024)