Ton de Leeuw

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Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (born November 16, 1926 in Rotterdam , † May 31, 1996 in Paris ) was a Dutch composer and music teacher .

Life

De Leeuw had composition lessons from 1947 to 1949 with Louis Toebosch and Henk Badings . He then studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and Thomas de Hartmann in Paris and, until 1954, ethnomusicology with Jaap Kunst at the University of Amsterdam .

From 1954 to 1959 he was musical director of the Nederlands Radio Union . During this time, electroacoustic compositions such as B. Study . From 1959 to 1986 he was Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam , which he also temporarily headed as director. He also taught at the University of Amsterdam between 1962 and 1982. His students included u. a. Gheorghi Arnaoudov , Guus Janssen , Michail Goleminov , Paul Termos , Walter Hekster , Liza Lim , Brian Ferneyhough , Tristan Keuris , Chiel Meijering , Daan Manneke , Antoine Beuger , Bernard van Beurden and Otto Sidharta .

After studying in India, Japan and Indonesia in the 1960s, de Leeuw campaigned for the fusion of Asian and Western music to create a new “world music”. In 1981 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris .

In 1964 Muziek van de twintigste eeuw appeared , which is considered the standard work on contemporary music and has been reprinted several times. It was published in German translation in 1995 as The Language of Music in the 20th Century and in English in 2005 under the title Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of its Elements and Structure.

Prices

  • 1956 Prix ​​Italia
  • 1958 Prix des Jeunesses Musicales
  • 1963 Prof. Van der Leeuw Prize
  • 1969 Visser Neerlandia Prize
  • 1970 City of Amsterdam Prize
  • 1982 Matthijs Vermeulen Prize
  • 1983 Johan Wagenaar Prize
  • 1993 Edison Prize
  • 2001 Edison Prize (posthumous)

Works

  • Treurmuziek in memoriam Willem Pijper , 1948
  • Study , electroacoustic work, 1957
  • Mouvements rétrogrades , 1960 ( Premiere 1960, Concertgebouw Orchestra under George Szell )
  • Men go their ways for piano solo, 1964 (premiere 1964, Ivo Janssen )
  • Spatial Music I , 1958–66 (WP Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra under Paul Hupperts )
  • Mon-Thu for harpsichord, 1974 (WP Vivienne Spiteri )
  • Car nos vignes sont en fleur , 1981
  • Interlude for guitar, 1984 ( WP Wim Hoogewerf )
  • Chimères , 1984
  • Résonances , 1985
  • Trio , 1990
  • Danses sacrées , piano concerto, 1990
  • Antigone , Opera, 1990-1991

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personal data
SURNAME Leeuw, Ton de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leeuw, Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1996
Place of death Paris