Waiting for E. 'Warten auf E.' is a piano piece in D minor by Michael Proksch. It's pretty simple and pretty short, so even I am still able to play it. The title translates into 'Waiting for E.' and is kind of reminiscent of the play 'Waiting for Godot'. Fortunatly the similarities end there and to be honest for me it was always closer to Beethoven's 'Für Elise' than to the play - despite the almost identical wording. I think titles are important. While art in general and music in particular are very good at creating a certain mood or feelings, a good title directs the fantasy of the recipient. It also limits it in a way of course. In my opinion 'Warten auf E.' strikes a perfect balance. You know you are waiting and you know you are waiting for E. but you don't know why or who E. is. E. could be male or female and are you even sure E. is even a person? So the title leaves enough room to project your own ideas into the piece but also gently pushes you closer to the idea the composer had in mind. But that's not all and it'd be very disappointing if it was because every pop song uses this concept nowadays. Although popsongs admittadely have a little more text to work with. The left hand (/die Begleitung) consists of broken chords and follows the pattern d, a, b, f, g, d, g, a. So that's eight bars ("Takte"). Then it starts again with d. Now what makes it special is that every third cycle the second g in the 7th bar is replaced with an e that coincides with a highlight in the right hand. After the second cycle there is a second e-line and after another regular pattern the piece ends. I always considered this ploy, this interaction between the title and the notes, to be very profound and very well thought out. My E. is my mother whose first name is Elisabeth. You can listen to the piece performed by the composer himself here: https://youtu.be/f-mEYLOzh8w (although he seems to play from memory and at one point what he plays doesn't match at least my sheets; but you can't really criticize a composer performing his own piece, can you?)