Jan Wolff

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Jan Wolff (born September 21, 1941 in Amsterdam ; † August 22, 2012 ibid) was a Dutch musician ( horn player ) who did a great job as a music producer and manager in the field of new music in the Netherlands.

Live and act

Wolff studied horn at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam . At the age of 17 he became a member of the Dutch Opera Orchestra and then played as a horn player in the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble . Between 1969 and 1981 he was a member of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and was involved in numerous recordings. Since 1972 he was also one of the founding members of Orkest De Volharding , with whom he premiered works by Louis Andriessen , Diderik Wagenaar and Amílcar Vásques Días, among others . He was also a member of the Willem Breuker Kollektief between 1974 and 1979 ; he was also heard in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestras of the Dutch radio.

In 1979 Wolff founded the Amsterdam Center for Contemporary Music, De Ijsbreker (an old tavern converted into a concert hall), which he managed until 2005 and which he developed into the leading international performance venue for this genre. De Ijsbreker then merged into Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ , which was largely built on Wolff's instigation and opened in 2005 . From the time it opened until his retirement in 2008, Wolff was the musical director of the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ .

In memory of Wolff, Sylvia Maessen's composition Resilience was composed , which was premiered in 2013 by the Ensemble Barka .

Discographic notes

  • Willem Breuker Litany for the 14th of June 1966 (Relax 1966)
  • Orkest De Volharding (1972-74)
  • Leo Cuypers Live in Shaffy (BVHaast 1974)
  • Euson Sweet Surrender (1975)
  • Willem Breuker Kollektief The European Scene: Live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival ( MPS , 1976)
  • Orkest De Volharding Met Stukken van Afonso , Andriessen, van Manen, Vásques Días en Wagenaar (1982)
  • Nedly Elstak trumpeter (1953–1983)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (Written in Music)
  2. ^ A b Jean & Françoise Buzelin Willem Breuker Editions Parenthèses: Marseille 1992, p. 89
  3. ↑ Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
  4. ↑ Leo Smitstichting and Barka pay homage to new music pioneer January Wolff in Amsterdam
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch horn player and music manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2012
Place of death Amsterdam