composer
Astrid Kruisselbrink werd op 9 februari 1972 te Velsen geboren.
Opleiding
Alvorens zij in 1993 toelating deed aan het Rotterdams Conservatorium speelde zij vanaf haar 9e jaar (klassiek en jazz) piano, later ...
related works
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Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
Symphony : for 21 players, (1984 - rev. 1986) / Henri Delnooz
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Instruments:
2222 sax-a 2210 perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
Gearbox : for reed-quintet, 2000 / Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
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Instruments:
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Avondlandschap: impressie naar een schilderij van Jan Broeze : voor piano / Daniël Belinfante
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
composition
Knot : 2001, texts based on excerpts from various authors / Astrid Kruisselbrink
Other authors:
Baudelaire, Charles
(librettist)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(librettist)
Couperus, Louis
(librettist)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
(librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(librettist)
Labe, Louise
(librettist)
Levy, Amy
(librettist)
Ovidius
(librettist)
Parker, Dorothy
(librettist)
Tsjeng (Meester)
(librettist)
Woolf, Virginia
(librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): The title of the work has several meanings. To begin with, that ball of wool, the knot of wool. That arises after spinning and weaving, two important traditional hand activities which women have always done. By means of the texts by Ovidius and among other things the harpsichord these jobs are converted into sound and will regularly return. Thus we all are familiar with the knot. Which here symbolizes several hairstyles (appearances) and the female vanity of longing to create. The several (appearances) forms, among other things bringing forward through the usage of different text sources, sound at the same time which results in the piling up of messy tangles, in own her own hair but also with each other, with leads us to the English meaning of knot. All in all the need arises to make knots. Such as one saws off the branches of a knot-willow tree forming a bald knot, whereupon new flexible willow tree branches can grow, and those branches are moreover suitable for basket
weaving.... but that is possibly something for a piece in the future. - ASTRID KRUISSELBRINK