Willy Hautvast

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Willy Hautvast

Johannes (Wilhelmus) Willy Hautvast (born August 31, 1932 in Maastricht ; † May 6, 2020 in Nijmegen ) was a contemporary Dutch composer .

As the son of a professional musician, his own professional career, as well as that of his brother Guus Hautvast , who played as an oboist in the Promenade Orchestra, was predetermined. He graduated from the Maastricht Conservatory with a major in clarinet .

He then signed up as a musician with the wind orchestra of the Dutch Air Force ( Kapel van de Koninklijke Luchtmacht ) as a clarinetist and later as an arranger. From around 1960 he published the first manuscripts of his arrangements and compositions. In 1970 he was awarded the Hilvarenbeek Community Music Prize for his composition Festal Suite . In 1974 he was entrusted with the management of the wind department at the music school in Nijmegen . He also worked as a conductor.

Willy Hautvast died in May 2020 at the age of 87.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1965 Funny Fantasy
  • 1969 Viva el Torro
  • 1970 Festal Suite
  • 1970 Music to Relax
  • 1972 Playful Interlude
  • 1972 Evolutions Overture
  • 1975 Musique à la carte
  • 1977 Happy go Lucky for xylophone and wind orchestra
  • 1979 Theme Varié
  • 1979 Fantasque suite
    1. Introduction
    2. Burlesque
    3. scherzo
    4. Air
    5. Danse Ternaire
  • 1980 Sinfonia Italiano
  • 1982 Nijmegen Variations (Nijmegen Variaties)
  • 1983 Petite Suite Pittoresque
    1. Prelude Classique
    2. Danse Populaire
    3. Intermède Moderne
    4. Final Baroque
  • 1986 Concert music
  • 1989 A Dutch Overture
  • Belcanto overture
  • Choral Prelude
  • Merry Christmas
  • Overture Française
  • Paganini Variations
  • Puccini in concert
  • Quatre bras
    1. Entrée
    2. Danse
    3. Rêverie
    4. Cortège
  • Romantic Rhapsody for brass band

Web links

  • Biography on the website of the music publisher Tierolff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composer and conductor Willy Hautvast overleden , Klankwijzer.nl, 7 May 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hautvast, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hautvast, Johannes Wilhelmus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht , the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2020
Place of death Nijmegen , the Netherlands