Tonnie de Graaf

Tonnie de Graaf (born September 13, 1926 in Nijmegen (Netherlands), † February 20, 1996 in Stadtoldendorf ) was a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Tonnie de Graaf was born in 1926 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After the early death of his father, his mother moved with her two sons to Stadtoldendorf near Holzminden in 1937 . At the age of just 17, Tonnie de Graaf was drafted into the war in 1944.

Then de Graaf studied composition and piano in Braunschweig with Werner Oehlmann and Siegfried Schulze .

Many of the works by the young Tonnie de Graaf have unfortunately fallen victim to inexorable self-censorship.

His catalog raisonné includes an orchestral suite, twelve piano sonatas, numerous piano pieces and many songs for voice and piano based on texts by Georg Trakl , Ilse Aichinger , Ingeborg Bachmann , Carl Zuckmayer and Heinrich Böll .

“What I particularly like about your music is the principle of thrift. Little effort, deep impact. That's what it's all about ... ” - this is how the poet Manfred Hausmann judged de Graaf, who set Hausmann's “ Pearl Curtain ” to music for speaker and piano.

Tonnie de Graaf was represented in over 60 radio programs.

From 1946 on he gave music lessons. After a long and serious illness, Tonnie de Graaf died on February 20, 1996.

Works

• 15 improvisations op.1 (Heinrichshofen-Verlag) - 1953
• 1st piano sonata op.3 (Inventio Musikverlag) - 2010, ISMN M-50156-021-9
• 2nd piano sonata (Inventio Musikverlag) - ISMN M-50156-022-6
• 4th piano sonata (Inventio Musikverlag) - ISMN M-50156-024-0
• 6th piano sonata op.9 (Glogger-Verlag)
• 10th Piano Sonata op.31 - 1968
• 11th Piano Sonata op.38 (Heinrichshofen-Verlag) - 1969

• CD / LP: Rose Marie Zartner (piano) plays Tonnie de Graaf, Captain Records Peter Schünemann

Web links

• Tonnie de Graaf
• Works by and about Tonnie de Graaf in the catalog of the German National Library