Jef Penders

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Jef Penders , actually Joseph Gerardus Johannes Penders , (born October 21, 1928 in Hoensbroek , Province of Limburg ; † April 15, 2015 in Maastricht , Province of Limburg) was a Dutch composer and conductor .

Live and act

At the age of 8 Penders received music lessons at the music school in his hometown Hoensbroek and played E-flat clarinet in the wind orchestra. During the German occupation, the brass orchestra's musical instruments were kept in safekeeping and safe with his parents. Penders took advantage of this and learned the trumpet , trombone and saxophone almost autodidactically . Later, when his parents rented living space to a well-known guitar teacher, he also learned to play the guitar . After the war he played in bands of the United States Army for a year and arranged some works.

From 1949 Penders studied counterpoint , instrumentation , conducting , organ and vocal pedagogy at the Maastricht Conservatory . He then worked for a few years as a conductor and music teacher. He composed utility music for his own and other orchestras, including the Metropole Orkest , the Malando Orchestra (alias for Arie Maasland ), the Royal Military Band, the Royal Navy Music Corps, the Amsterdam Police Band, the Orchestra of Belgian Radio and Television under the baton from Francis Bay .

In 1959 he moved to Maastricht and became cantor at the great St. Lambertus Church . Apart from composing, his other professional activities came to an abrupt end after a very serious illness in which he lost his language skills in 1971. With the help of technical aids, he finally managed to communicate verbally to a limited extent. Most recently, he lived in the Valencia area , Spain, for a number of years .

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1954 My dear Country - Daar is mijn vaderland
  • 1969 Glenn meets Wolfgang ( Sonate Facile by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Glenn Miller mode)
  • 1969 Indonesian Boat Song
  • 1971 Blossom in a Japanese Garden
  • 1972 Marching Blues
  • 1972 Mambo Bando Uno
  • 1973 De Zilvervloot
  • 1975 Old man's tick-a-tack
  • 1975 American folk rock
  • 1976 Clog-Shoe Dance
  • 1977 Modern Dance Fantasy on an Old Dutch Folksong
  • 1977 Theme d'Orgue based on the final movement from Symphony No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • 1978 Our Naval History
  • 1978 The Marshfield Street Walk
  • 1979 Sweet Carolina Charleston
  • 1979 Homage to Ricky for tower glockenspiel (carillon) with wind orchestra
  • 1979 performance
  • 1980 Charmonie
  • 1981 Ska-Ing Jamaica Ska-Reggae
  • 1981 band Fever
  • 1981 Juvenile Party
  • 1982 Marines Heritage
  • 1982 Glider for pop group and wind orchestra
  • 1983 X-mas round the world
  • 1983 The Laugh'n Charleston
  • 1983 Anniversary marcha-cha
  • 1983 Limburgse Vla
  • 1984 Santa Cruz
  • 1985 Prima Partita al Modo del Barocco
    1. Prelude et Allemande
    2. Courante
    3. Sarabande
    4. Jig
  • 1985 March of the Androids
  • 1985 Fanfaresque Ouverture-Humoresque
  • 1985 Manifestanum
  • 1985 Eviva Caecilia - Merengue para banda
  • 1986 I Mugnai (De Molenaars)
    1. Overture en Gavotte (by Jan Molenaar)
    2. Serenata (voor Willeke Molenaar - wife of Jan Molenaar)
    3. Menuet (voor Ilse Molenaar - wife of Bob Molenaar)
    4. Rondo (by Bob Molenaar)
  • 1986 Rêverie for alto saxophone and wind orchestra
  • 1987 Maram (Holland Heritage) Maram is borrowed from the words Mar ine and Am erika
    1. With the fleet on the high seas
    2. In the submarine
    3. With the fleet in calm seas (journey home)
    4. Shipbuilding at the shipyard (high precision - teamwork - time pressure)
    5. The well-deserved rest of the shipyard workers
    6. Marines Heritage
    7. final
  • 1987 La Primitiva Paso-doble de concert
  • 1987 Synkretismos symphonic poem
  • 1987 Images de mon village
    1. Réveille
    2. Jeu alterné
    3. Prière du sord et finale
  • 1987 Cantilenas Profanes for male choir and wind orchestra
  • 1988 Nobra - Rhapsodic Sketches on a Twodays - Life in Province
  • 1988 Tripartite Waltz
  • 1988 The Papermills Bandsmen
  • 1988 Festivity for fanfare orchestra
    1. Inleiding
    2. Allegro
    3. largo
    4. Allegro
  • 1992 Glenn beats the Battle of Jericho
  • 1993 A Day of Music
  • 1998 Smals
    1. The factory
    2. Figures in the sand
    3. Recreation village (rondo)
  • Adeste Fidelis
  • Band fever disco beat
  • En Mestre Sef
  • Gloria in Excelsis Deodorant
  • Norwegian Ballad Balada para Trompeta
  • Rosevalley Blues
  • The Pee-Double-U Circus
  • Three generations
    1. Granny
    2. Daddy
    3. Sun
  • Transformations During A Man's Life
  • Tre Dodecapricci
  • Y Ahora ...! La conga!

Choral works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composer and conductor Jef Penders overleden. Report on 1limburg.nl of April 17, 2015 (Dutch, accessed April 24, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Penders, Jef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penders, Joseph Gerardus Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoensbroek , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2015
Place of death Maastricht , the Netherlands