Marius Flothuis

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Marius Flothuis (1967)

Marius Hendrikus Flothuis (born October 30, 1914 in Amsterdam ; † November 13, 2001 there ) was a Dutch composer , musicologist and music critic .

Life

He studied piano with Arend Koole and music theory with Hans Brandts Buys, as well as musicology with Albert Smijers at the University of Utrecht and with Karel Philippus Bernet Kempers at the University of Amsterdam . In 1937 he became artistic co-director at the Concertgebouw . In 1942 he had to vacate this post because he did not cooperate with the German Nazi occupiers. He then worked temporarily in the resistance and helped persecuted Jews. In September 1943 he was denounced and imprisoned first in Kamp Vught , then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From there, the SS forced him to go on a death march to the Baltic Sea with the remaining prisoners in April 1945 . Flothuis survived and was able to return to Amsterdam on May 29, 1945. He worked as a librarian for the Donemus Foundation and as a music critic for Het Vrije Volk . In 1953 he was able to take over his previous post at the Concertgebouw and worked there as artistic director from 1955 to 1974. From 1974 to 1982 he taught musicology at the University of Utrecht. Flothuis, who received his doctorate in 1969, was considered a recognized Mozart expert. From 1980 to 1994 he was chairman of the Central Institute for Mozart Research in Salzburg.

style

As a composer he was largely self-taught. With the Vier Morgenstern-Lieder for soprano and orchestra, premiered in 1939 under Eduard van Beinum , he achieved his first success as a composer. As a prisoner in Kamp Vught, he wrote Valses sentimentales for piano four hands in 1944 . His complete works include more than a hundred works for almost all genres, with the exception of opera: orchestral works, concerts, chamber, choral and solo vocal works as well as music for piano , harp and percussion . Stylistically, he was influenced by neoclassicism .

Publications

  • Mozart . Kruseman, The Hague, 1940.
  • Hedendaagse Engelse composers . Becht, Amsterdam, 1949.
  • Pianomuziek . H. Nelissen, Bilthoven, 1958.
  • Mozart's arrangements of his own and other works . Dissertation, Amsterdam 1969.
  • Notes on notes: selected essays . F. Knuf, Amsterdam 1974.
  • Mahler interprets Mahler . In: News on Mahler Research. Issue 9, September 1981.
  • (with Hans van Dijk): 75 years GeNeCo: de geschiedenis van het Genootschap van Nederlandse composers . 1988, OCLC 65512168 .
  • Think about music, a bundle or give away articles . Kok Lyra, Kampen 1993, ISBN 90-242-7138-X .
  • "... exprimer l'inexprimable ...", essai sur la mélodie française depuis Duparc . Rodopi, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-420-0087-2 .
  • Mozart's Piano Concerts - A musical guide . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-41874-0 .
  • Mozart's string quartets - a musical guide . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43306-5 .
  • Autograph - copy - first printing. A critical assessment. In: Mozart Yearbook 2001 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2003, pp. 13-18.

literature

  • Joyce Kiliaan: Marius Flothuis . Donemus, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-74560-39-3 (Dutch, English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Emanuel Overbeeke:  Flothuis, Marius. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ^ Jos Wouters, Leo Samama:  Flothuis, Marius. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f biography on Leo Smit Foundation (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d Detailed CV on Forbidden Music Regained (English)
personal data
SURNAME Flothuis, Marius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flothuis, Marius Hendrikus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2001
Place of death Amsterdam