composer
Robert Heppener was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He died on August 25, 2009 in Bergen.
He studied piano with Jan Odé and Johan van den Boogert at the Conservatory of ...
related works
Bruchstücke eines alten Textes : für Chor a cappella, 1990 / Robert Heppener
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK8
Five Masses : for 4 voices / Elzéar Genet; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Mon doux pilote s'endort aussi : pour choeur / Karel Goeyvaerts
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Bist du bist : 2. / und [Text von] Franz Mon, Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
composition
Dear march come in : for a cappella choir, 2002 / poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Heppener
Other authors:
Dickinson, Emily
(librettist)
Contains:
Dear march, come in
There came a wind like a bugle
It's like the light
The gentian weaves her fringes
Safe in their alabaster chambers
To make a prairie
At last to be identified
Description:
Program note (English): The writer Vestdijk was the first in the Netherlands who discovered Emily Dickinson's poetry. Throughout her life she wrote about her world at home and in the garden, which she never left. Choreographer and dancer Martha Graham frequently used the poetry of Emily Dickinson in her work. So I can recall a ballet from 1940 "Letter to the world", in which one dancer ran forward as he shouted: "Dear March come in". This made such an impression on me at the time that I then made a plan for a choral piece with several poems by Emily Dickinson. The result is this work from 2002, in which I have used seven of her poems. - ROBERT HEPPENER