The “Third Concert for Orchestra” was composed in 1968/69. It was written for a regular symphonic orchestra: it is not divided into the traditional movements being comprised mostly of “Allegri”. Each follows the preceding movement without a pause and they differ from each other in their obviously different rhythms.

The reason for the dedication to Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the combustion engine, is purely idealistic. There is no indication in the composition of onomatopoetic inferences to the invention as one would usually expect in “Machine Music”.

Having spent a major part of his life in factories among machines, the composer only wished to make a sentimental reference to one of the men to whom the present civilisation owes thanks for a considerable part of its mechanical advancement.