composer
Marijn Simons was born in The Netherlands on December 25, 1982. He studied violin with Prof. Saschko Gawriloff, composition with Daan Manneke and James MacMillan and conducting with Ed Spanjaard, ...
related works
Fire Column (Piano Concerto Nº 2) : for piano and string orchestra / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and string orchestra
Scoring:
pf str
Pas de Deux : for string quartet / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Interpretations no. IV : for string quartet / David Porcelijn
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Quatuor : pour 2 violons, alto et violoncelle, 1961 / Matthijs Vermeulen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
composition
String Quartet Nº 1 : opus 6 / Marijn Simons
Description:
After having composed a lot of pieces between 1987 and 1993, a short work for violin and piano called Capriccio (1993) was categorized by me as “opus 1” based on the fact that this was the first composition performed at a concert. However, I want to keep all the works before opus 11 (Capriccio for Stan & Ollie, 1996) for myself. They are not allowed to ever become public through publications, performances, recordings or otherwise.
The only exception being my String Quartet no. 1, opus 6 (1994/1995). In February 2010 I decided to revise and publish this work to make my series of String Quartets complete. As there is a “no. 1” in my Symphonies and Violin Concertos, I felt there also has to be a “no. 1” among my String Quartets.
In revisions of older works I always improve things that I noticed during rehearsals and performances, e.g. some notational things which were misunderstood by the interpreters, orchestrations that didn’t quite work or the timing of a certain passage in the composition that turned out to be unsatisfactory to the way I had it in mind. Therefore only the revised versions of my compositions may be performed, published or recorded and not the so-called “original versions”.
Marijn Simons, March 2012