 Lindberg credited much of the music's form to the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, writing, "One of the composers of our century who has renewed the relation between form and content is Witold Lutoslawski.His idea of a two part form with a presentation of a material and its qualities without any directional tendencies in the first movement, continued by a second movement where the material grows to an entity, is a genuine and clear approach to form today.