"Ode à la vie de Josephine" ("Ode to the life of Josephine") (January 2025) Number of pages : 304 (including 4 in English and 1 in German) Format : 24 cm x 32 cm Forwarding : square spine binding sewn with cover 2 panels and 2 side flaps Lyrics : 21 songs inspired by Josephine Delantar (16 in French, 4 in English, 1 in German) Photographs : more than 1500 colour photographs for the chapters "Josephine's Kisses", "Josephine's Passion for Flowers", "Josephine in Her Multi-Coloured Dress" and "Josephine's Love and Joy of Living" In tribute to Josephine Delantar (17.02.1979 - 03.07.2021), born in Dolores (Philippines), died in Heidelberg (Germany), the author refuses the idea of an eternal absence since Josephine Delantar is the love of his life and the power of love is eternal. With the texts and images celebrating the life of Josephine Delantar until her tragic death at the age of 42 following a long illness, a lasting trace of Josephine Delantar remains on planet Earth.

 Here is the text of the 4. cover page :

« To Josephine Delantar,
Josephine, the love of my life,
Josephine, the woman of my life, my ray of sunshine, my muse,
Josephine, with her natural beauty, her intense love, her dazzling smile, her infinite tenderness, her contagious joy of living, her tender kindness, her universal spirit, her many small thoughtful gestures that make life pleasant,
Josephine, who inspired and hummed so many songs created for her before she flew away to Heaven despite her young age and her beliefs,
Josephine, who had taken the habit of calling me "Mon tout" ("My all") in French, although she is German of Filipino origin.

I refuse the idea of an eternal absence since the power of love is eternal.

From now on remains a lasting trace of Josephine on planet Earth.

Thank you for your love, my all Josephine !

Mahal kita, Mahal ko Josephine ("I love you, my love Josephine")

My all Gilles »

				"Piano Vision" (October 2023) Tribute to Josephine Delantar (17.02.1979 - 03.07.2021) Number of pages : 160 (2 pages containing a short description on the songs (in French, English, German, Spanish)) Format : 24 cm x 32 cm Forwarding : wire’o binding with wraparound cover Scores : piano, guitar, voice Number of titles : 21 Duration : 78 minutes (Bonus-CD included) Music genres : Pop, Rock, Country rock, Rhythm and blues, Blues, Soul, Jazz-rock Summary of the Rock Opera "Le pain de glace" ("Ice Pack"): "Kapik is an Inuit who lives with his wife, Sita, and their son, Taggak, in a polar region. Kapik wants to improve his family’s life and leaves alone for the warm regions to explore the possibilities there. By discovering the cooling demand of people in these distant lands, he comes up with the idea of selling ice packs from his country of origin. After a few adventures and misadventures, Kapik realizes that he is taking part in the destruction of the pack ice that is already being very badly damaged by global warming. So he decides to go back home and sends out a cry for help hoping to save what can still be saved."

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« To write a story full of twists and turns, evoking the adventures, the feelings of a person who could well be us. To say your words, play your music in front of the person you love. To possibly modify or correct what she misperceived. To keep gratefully what she appreciated, which she made her own to the point of humming it, sometimes continuously. To create because it is our nature, but also for the reward of a smile, of his smile.

We only fully perceive how beautiful all this is when life tears us away from the loved one.

"Piano Vision" is intended as a tribute to a person full of life, of incredible kindness. She hummed these songs. They therefore have a singular value for his friends... Dear Josephine... »

				"Piano Boulevard" (July 2020) Number of pages : 168 (2 pages containing a short description on the songs (in French, English, German, Spanish)) Format : 24 cm x 32 cm Forwarding : wire’o binding with wraparound cover Scores : piano, guitar, voice Number of titles : 18 (2 in English, 1 in German) Duration : 77 minutes (Bonus-CD included) Music genres : Pop, Slow, Rockabilly, Folk rock, Country, Soul, Jazz, Disco, Reggae, World, Classical

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« It is a pleasure to find Gilles von Wihl in this new opus.

His third collection of scores "Piano Boulevard" includes his last songs. The orchestrations have been reduced for piano. The scores are offered in this collection as well as their recording in CD.

His friends and the steadily increasing number of people who follow his work know it: it is about Gilles, so it will be about love ! The tone can be light, serious, naive, burlesque, dramatic and brightly cheerful. No matter the musical climates that are also changing: love will have the leading role.

But this time, Gilles also insists on the transmission, the legacy to future generations. The love of those who come is also a common thread.

In these troubled times, let us trust Gilles to relieve our hearts of daily worries and let us hoist ourselves towards purer skies ! »

				"Piano Panorama" (July 2017) Number of pages : 160 (2 pages containing a short description on the songs (in French, English, German, Spanish)) Format : 24 cm x 32 cm Forwarding : wire’o binding with wraparound cover Scores : piano, guitar, voice Number of titles : 19 (3 in English) Duration : 78 minutes (Bonus-CD included) Music genres : Pop, Slow, Rock, Rockabilly, Country rock, Blues, Jazz, Jazz-rock, Gospel, Disco, Dance, Reggae, Christmas, Nursery rhyme, Classical

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« With this "Piano Panorama" Gilles von Wihl proposes to us a new collection of songs whose orchestrations have been reduced for piano.
A lot has happened in Gilles' life since his last CD. Things said, unspoken things, which his friends guessed, or thought to guess. You will find these things in his music, in his sincere texts, sometimes very romantic, sometimes hard, sometimes contemplative...

That’s the way life goes, in all its diversity.

Some artists are confused with the impulse that leads them to express themselves. In doing so, their creations give us a mirror and allow us to reconnect with buried emotions.

You will find here many different musical climates, but perhaps you will find mostly forgotten memories... »

				"Piano Bar" (July 2012) Number of pages : 160 (2 pages containing a short description on the songs (in French, English, German, Spanish)) Format : 24 cm x 32 cm Forwarding : wire’o binding with wraparound cover Scores : piano, guitar, voice Number of titles : 20 (2 in English) Duration : 76 minutes (Bonus-CD included) Music genres : Pop, Slow, Rock, Boogie-woogie, Country rock, Rhythm and blues, Soul, Hindi, Hip-hop, Reggae, Salsa

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« The author: Gilles von Wihl is a charming songwriter with a rich real-life experience. His sincerity allows him to share easily his feelings and even to evoke in his listener feelings and intimate impressions.

The collection: The author is polyglot, he travelled and lived a lot of experiences. So he expresses himself easily and naturally in multiple climates: French song, rock, Country music, international varieties... He is not afraid of fetching his inspirations in Jamaica ("Les couleurs de ton île"), in Latin America ("La fille et son perroquet", "Les marchands de rêves") or in India ("La Princesse de Bollywood")...

The orchestrations of his songs have been reduced for piano. They are also offered with detailed guitar chords. They offer a remarkable diversity of styles, rhythms, atmospheres...

No doubt they will delight amateur or confirmed musicians. »

				"Chansons orphelines" ("Orphaned Songs") (January 2005) Number of pages : 128 (125 in French and 3 in English) Format : 11 cm x 16,5 cm

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« The thread of these orphaned songs is a history in its entirety, a musical work at the same time rhythmic, intimate and revealing.

Free our emotions, make our hearts sing and make us intone his compositions whose quality charms our hearing, this is what Gilles von Wihl wished to transmit within this melodious autobiography by giving us this irresistible desire to create the perfect melody which whispers in everybody’s ear what was, is and will be life in pink for this author with varying vocal chords.

And now, it is up to each of us to make this work ours and real as well as to soak up body and soul with it. »

				"Aimer d’amour" ("To Love With True Love") (August 2004) Number of pages : 174 (172 in French and 2 in German) Format :  11 cm x 16,5 cm

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« This autobiographical collection is by far a reflection of the personality of a man we appreciate at its right value.

His texts, written to charm us and sometimes to play with us, carry us like a slight breeze to an imaginary world which is his.

From the keen and sensual emotion of poetry, which knows how to fill us with wonder, Gilles von Wihl makes us respectfully share his dreams through his poems woven of love, hope and truths. To dream his own life is for him the key to a happy and brightened out life.

His sometimes disconcerting testimonies and his personal past life wrap us like a light cloud in order for us to experience those in the purest intimacy. Encounter, love and passion would certainly be his more beautiful signature because he is closely convinced by it. »  

				"Etapes confidentielles d’un rêveur" ("Confidential Stages of a dreamer") (July 1998) Number of pages : 160 (146 in French, 13 in German and one in three languages) Format : 11 cm x 16,5 cm

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« With the tenderness of simplicity, the spontaneous emotion of everyday life and the skin deep sensibility of the torn man, Gilles von Wihl offers us heart gripping texts to be considered as testimonies.

Sometimes on the register of poetry, sometimes on the range of a short text or even of the novel, he follows step by step the way of a daydream which he has the desire to share with the reader like as many confidences. »

				"Images de la vie d’un passionné" ("Life Pictures of a Passionate Man") (December 1992) Number of pages : 164 (160 in French, 2 in German and 2 in English) Format : 11 cm x 16,5 cm

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« Gilles von Wihl is a passionate man who knows what living means. He carries passion like a talisman to the stream of its existence and this one - quite precisely - impregnates the act of writing of the rope of the love. The simple images, if not banal, are those which could belong to everyman on condition that the existence of this one is struck by the touch of the magic wand whose love is the master of the magicians. It is intense and it breathes sometimes naive happiness and wonder in front of each day which is given to us to appreciate.

Wouldn’t the existence be finally in the likeness of the loved woman? Every day he should renew his love declaration to her…

Gilles von Wihl reminds us of the urgent need to love because precarious and fleeting things weave their web in our daily life to make us forget the truth of the life: the act of love, the only one which can enable us to get closer to the original creation and the eternity. »