Louis Andriessen

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Louis Andriessen (1983)

Louis Joseph Andriessen (born June 6, 1939 in Utrecht , † July 1, 2021 in Weesp near Amsterdam ) was a Dutch composer . He was considered a key figure in the contemporary Dutch art scene.

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Louis Andriessen was the son of the composer and conductor Hendrik Andriessen and the youngest brother of the composer Jurriaan Andriessen . He studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with his father and Gerard Hengeveld ( piano ) and with Kees van Baaren . He completed further studies in Milan with Luciano Berio from 1962 to 1963 and in Berlin from 1964 to 1965 (scholarship from the Ford Foundation). From 1974 he taught instrumentation and composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and was a freelance composer. In 1977 he received first prize in the UNESCO composition competition for his composition De Staat . In 2008 he was elected honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM .

Louis Andriessen at a concert in Vancouver 2009

Andriessen was an artist whose "development was decisively influenced by the political upheavals of the sixties". He was a member of a composers collective that wrote the anti-imperialist opera Reconstructie in 1969 . With this collective, to which Misha Mengelberg , Peter Schat , Jan van Vlijmen and Reinbert de Leeuw belonged, but also with Willem Breuker and Harry Mulisch , he performed the Notenkrakersactie during a concert by Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in order to perform the performance prevent. He co-founded the ensembles Orkest De Volharding (wind ensemble) (for which he wrote from 1972 to 1976) and Hoketus (1976); With the ensemble pieces De Volharding and Hoketus , he also found the names for the two instrumental ensembles with which he was able to realize his ideas about the production of music - “as a unity of creator and performer”. In his compositional style, influences from Stravinsky as well as minimal music can be noticed. He dealt with different musical genres and art forms - including musical theater and film. This is how the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart was created in collaboration with Peter Greenaway .

Andriessen's compositional work is shaped by the conviction that music cannot be decoupled from the social and political context in which it originates and sounds.

Numerous articles bear his name, mostly published in The Art of Stealing Time . With Elmer Schönberger , he wrote the book Het Apollinisch Uurwerk (translated by Jeff Hamburg as The Apollonian Clockwork , Oxford University Press ) in 1982 , a study on Igor Stravinsky . In 1994 he was Artistic Director of the Meltdown Festival in London . He also chaired the annual International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands .

Andriessen suffered from Alzheimer's disease . He died on July 1, 2021 in his apartment in Weesp .

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1963 Ittrospezioni II
  • 1966 Anachrony I
  • 1968 Contra tempus
  • 1969 Anachronie II for oboe and chamber orchestra
  • 1969 Wie es ist (Hoe et is) for 52 strings and electronic instruments
  • 1970 Beethoven's nine symphonies (De negen symfonieën van Beethoven) , an ice cream seller's bell, orchestra
  • 1970 Spectacular improvising ensemble (saxophone [+ bass clarinet], viola, bass guitar, electronic organ [+ piano], percussion [or other instruments]), small orchestra (12 woodwinds, 4 horns, 6 percussion)
  • 1972 De Volharding 3 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, piano
  • 1972 This happens in Vietnam (Dat was born in Vietnam) wind ensemble
  • 1973 Amsterdam Vrij wind ensemble
  • 1973 On Jimmy Yancey flute, 2 alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, horn, trumpet, 3 trombones, double bass, piano
  • 1973 Voor Sater wind ensemble
  • 1974 Hymn to the Memory of Darius Milhaud
  • 1978 Symphony for open strings (Symphonie voor losse snaren) 12 strings
  • 1983 Die Schnelligkeit (De Snelheid) 3 prepared ensembles
  • 1998 Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno for solo voice, amplified solo violin and ensemble (WP 2001)
  • 2002 La Passione for solo voice, solo violin and ensemble
  • 2004 Racconto dall 'inferno for voice and ensemble
  • 2005 De Opening , 3 ensembles (French horn, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones; 5 woodwinds, 4 brass instruments, harp, string quartet, double bass, piano, accordion, 3 percussionists; 5 woodwinds, 4 brass instruments, harp, string quartet, double bass, piano, accordion , 3 percussionists)
  • 2008 Haags Hakkûh (The Hague Hacking) , concert for two pianos and large orchestra
  • 2011 La Girò for ensemble
  • 2013 Mysteriën for orchestra
  • 2013 Tapdance , concert for ensemble
  • 2016 Signs and Symbols for small orchestra
  • 2017 Agamemnon for speaker and large orchestra

Stage works

  • 1969 Reconstructie Moralische Oper, libretto by Hugo Claus , Harry Mulisch , soloists, 3 mixed choirs (each choir 4 voices), orchestra (11 wooden wind instruments, 7 brass instruments, 2 guitars, 11 keyboards, 10 strings), live electronics, (collaboration with Reinbert de Leeuw, Misha Mengelberg , Peter Schat, Jan van Vlijmen )
  • 1972–1976 De Staat (The State, text by Plato ), 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 4 oboes (3rd, 4th + English horn), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass trombone, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars , 4 violins, bass guitar, 2 pianos
  • 1976 Matthäus Passion (Mattheus passie) (music theater work, text by Louis Ferron), 8 mixed voices, 2 oboes (+ cor anglais), Hammond organ, string quartet, double bass
  • 1977 Orpheus (music theater work, text by Lodewijk de Boer ), 8 mixed voices, lyricon, electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion
  • 1984 George Sand (Musik Theater Werk, text by Mia Meyer), 8 mixed voices, 4 pianos,
  • 1986 Dubbelspoor (ballet music), piano, harpsichord, celesta, glockenspiel
  • 1984–1988 Die Materie (De Materie) (music theater work, texts from a poster by Verlatinge, Nicolaes Witsen , David Gorlaeus [Dutch translation], Hadewijch, MHJ Schoenmaekers, Madame van Domselaer-Middelkoop [can be spoken in Dutch or English] , Willem Kloos, Marie Curie [can be spoken in English or French], Françoise Giroud [can be spoken in English or French]; first female speaker and dancer), soprano, tenor, 2 female speakers, 8 prepared mixed voices, prepared orchestra (15 woodwinds, 13 brass instruments, harp, 2 electric guitars, 2 pianos [one + electric piano], off-stage upright piano, celesta, 2 synthesizers, 6 percussion, minimum 9 strings, bass guitar)
  • 1991 Dances (text by Joan Grant , choreography by Bianca van Dillen), soprano, small orchestra (prepared harp, prepared piano, percussion, strings)
  • 1993 M is music, monologue and murder (M is Muziek, Monoloog en Moord) (music theater work, text by Lodewijk de Boer )
  • 1993–1994 Rosa (opera / horse drama in two acts, libretto by Peter Greenaway ), 2 soprano, tenor, 2 baritone, female speaker, 8 mixed voices, orchestra,
  • 1995 Odysseus' Women (text by Homer , choreography by Beppie Blankert), 2 soprano, 2 alto, sampler #
  • 1997–98 Writing to Vermeer (opera in 6 scenes, libretto by Peter Greenaway, three female roles, children's and women's choir)
  • 1998 De eerste minnaar (text by Ton Tellegen), boy soprano, organ
  • 2003 Inanna for four singers, choir, ensemble with film
  • 2008 La Commedia (based on Dante Alighieri ), world premiere in 2008 at the Carré Theater , Amsterdam
  • 2009-10 Anaïs Nin for singer (reinforced), ensemble and film
  • 2013–15 Theater of the World a grotesque - stage work in 9 scenes, premiered in 2016 in Los Angeles

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1973 Symphonieën der Nederlanden for two or more wind orchestras
  • 1975 Netherlands, take care of your beauty (Nederland, let op uw schoonheyt) Symphonic wind orchestra
  • Monuments of the Netherlands for wind orchestra

Other works

  • 1974 Il Principe (text by Niccolò Machiavelli ), 2 mixed choirs, 8 woodwinds, 3 horns, tuba, bass guitar, piano
  • 1975 Workers Union , any loud ensemble (also version for percussion, sound installation )
  • 1975 Hoketus , for 2 groups of 5 instrumentalists (pan flute, tenor saxophone ad libitum, bass guitar, piano, e-piano, conga)
  • 1980 Un beau baiser mixed choirs
  • 1981 Die Zeit (De Tijd) (text by Augustinus von Hippo ), women's choir, percussion ensemble, orchestra (6 flutes, 2 alto flutes, 3 clarinets, double bass clarinet, 6 trumpets, 2 harps, 2 piano, Hammond Organ, strings, 2 bass guitars)
  • 1991 M is for Man, Music, Mozart (experimental television production by Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, French horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano
  • 1997 Trilogie van de Laatste Dag (each of the three sections can be performed separately)
    • The Last Day text by Lucebert , folk song A Woman and Her Lass , boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra
    • TAO text by Lao-tzu , Kotaro Takamura , 4 female voices, piano (+ voice, koto), small orchestra (5 woodwinds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings)
    • dancing on the bones Own text, children's choir, orchestra
  • 2000 Inanna's Descent for female voice and small ensemble
  • 2003 Letter from Cathy (text from a letter from Cathy Berberian to the composer) female jazz voice, harp, violin, double bass, piano, percussion
  • 2020 May , cantata for choir and orchestra

Works for organ

  • 1967 The Garden of Ryoan-gi for 3 electronic organs
  • 1969 chorale preludes

Works for tower carillon (carillon)

  • 1988 De Toren
  • 1995 The arrival of Willibrord (De komst van Willibrord)

Awards

literature

  • Maja Trochimczyk: The music of Louis Andriessen . Routledge, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-8153-3789-8 (English).
  • Yayoi Uno Everett: The music of Louis Andriessen . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-511-48200-7 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Huizenga: Louis Andriessen, Influential, Iconoclastic Dutch Composer, Dies At Age 82. In: NPR . July 1, 2021 (English).;
  2. ↑ a b volkskrant.nl. , July 1, 2021
  3. ^ ISCM Honorary Members
  4. ^ A b Louis Andriessen: Everything is Music , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 1, 2009
  5. ↑ Guido van Oorschot: Louis Andriessen (81) componeert zijn slotakkoord: May, after Herman Gorter's great lentegedicht. In: Volkskrant . December 3, 2020 (Dutch).;
  6. ^ Honorary Members: Louis Andriessen. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Andriessen, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andriessen, Louis Joseph (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Dutch composer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Weesp , Netherlands