composer
General: Rokus de Groot was born in Aalst on July 27, 1947. He is the brother of composer Jan Rokus van Rosendael.
Education: He obtained his MA in musicology with honours ...
related works
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players); Orchestra
Instruments:
1111 1111 2perc hp pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb / str
Concerto : per due pianoforti / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
2pf
Au revoir : harpe (ou piano), 1983 / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp; Piano
Instruments:
hp/pf
Presage : for two pianos four hands, 1989 / Ton Lambij
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
2pf4h
composition
Mehfil : for piano, 2004 / Rokus de Groot
Description:
Program note (English): Mehfil is a word in Persian and Urdu (a North-Indian language) referring to a meeting of friends, musicians, poets or lovers at a private house. As the Iranian composer Alireza Mashayekhi puts it, mehfil is like Plato's Symposion. In this composition the North-Indian râga Chandrakauns meets European pianistic traditions. It is a homage to Zia Mohinuddin Dagar, master of the rudraveena, whose rendering of Chadrakauns was one of the first encounters I had with Indian classical music. The composition is also a homage to Claude Debussy of the Préludes. The piece is a homage to Wasifuddin Dagar as well, the dhrupad singer who guided me into the depth of North Indian music, always playing the tanpura, wether singing or speaking, in Dehli and Amsterdam, during many mehfils. - ROKUS DE GROOT