Dear friends, This year, again, I am very glad to present you with my newsletter-booklet/CD "inventor-musicae," 2017, featuring my publications of 2016. The booklet is intended to be a yearly publication, summarizing information about selected publications (CD, DVD etc.) I released during the year. I plan this publication to be informative and worth keeping. It is not intended to be just a "Newsletter" but, rather, a step towards further productive discussion which may start online by connecting with me on several social networks. Needles to say, this is a very individual endeavor. Just like all my productions. I am a free, unbound, independent artist. I take all the hassle and risks for anything I publish. I also affiliate totally with the "free music," "free software," "free cultural work" definitions and precepts. Here "free" means "freedom," not necessarily "gratis." Let me expand somewhat about this. I believe everybody should be able to listen to my music, whether they are able and willing to pay for it or not. Then some will, hopefully, enjoy it and, if they really enjoy, they would want it going on (i.e. me publishing more) so they would feel the urge to support my creations by buying my CD's and DVD's and printed music scores. This is the reason I post on the Net all tracks of all my CD's to free audition, furthermore they are also on sale at various CD and mp3 stores. The same for my compositions. They are available at IMSLP (http: //imslp.org), Petrucci Music Library, they are also on sale. The past year, I started the recording of the complete piano sonatas by Beethoven. There are times, in an artist's life, when one feels that "the time has come" for some work(s). Embarking "into the 32 Sonatas by Beethoven" was motivated by such a feeling. A similar conviction led me record the complete Sonatas by Mozart in the past year. After years of playing, teaching, thinking about them an unifying vision emerges. Even with such a large and diversified corpus as huge as the 32 Sonatas, there is one fundamental idea: the journey of one genius man throughout his entire life. Amazing and unsuspected things surface when working with the 32 Sonatas. Similitudes, expansion of some fundamental ideas, a sense of direction in life, philosophy and music. In the past year (2016) I finished the recording of the first four volumes, featuring Sonatas number one to fourteen. All published as audio CD's and video DVD's (both Pal and Ntsc). Always impressed and inspired by the Japanese culture and arts, my composition: "Haikus" for cello solo and percussion was composed for and premiered by Nickolai Kolarov (cello) and Fernando Meza (percussion) in the twelfth "Balkanicus Contemporary Music Festival" in Minneapolis. 2016 was also the year I did finish my first Symphony: "Eikhah" (Lamentations). Actually a Symphonic Poem, a project started some 3 years before. I planned it to be gigantic in its "vertical" (i.e. number of instruments used) and "horizontal" (i.e. sheer duration). A near 300 pages music score, available at the usual stores but also offered as watermarked "free" copies at imslp.org, together with an audio CD made with my "semi-virtual" orchestra: inventor-musicae where recordings of a number of "real" instruments are combined and mixed in my studio with some others (unfortunately) unavailable to me in the "real" world. Finally, it was the conclusion of a contemporary music project I nourished for few years: Boulez and Xenakis, selected piano works. Four "landmark" pieces of the twentieth century piano music has been recorded in this album. Pieces I see as of utmost importance in the music of our time. I hope you will enjoy reading, browsing or at least glancing through this booklet. As always I would be happy to connect with you and get your feedback."