related works
De negen symfonieën van Beethoven : voor promenade-orkest en ijscobel / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3 trb timp 2perc pf el.g g-b str
The Roof of Blue Glass : Piano Duos, Volume 5 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
Orval Variations : for two pianos / Kris Oelbrandt
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
Suite : voor piano of clavecimbel, (1937) / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano; Harpsichord
Scoring:
pf/cemb
composition
Image de Moreau : for piano / Louis Andriessen
Other authors:
Andriessen, Louis
(Composer)
Contains:
Image de Moreau (1999)
Trois Pieces (1961)
Trepidus (1983)
Base (1994)
Caecilia's Contrapunt (2006)
Feli-Citazione (2000)
Etude pour les timbres (1962)
Ricercare (1966)
Blokken
Description:
The graphic design of Image de Moreau by Louis Andriessen
The basic assumption was for me to design something different to the traditional piano book, something special, retaining its original functionality at the same time.
The front of the box, which holds nine piano booklets, represents the Gustave Moreau painting Dalila, this picture being Louis Andriessen’s personal choice.
So as to emphasize graphically the connection between the image and the nine works by Andriessen, I have divided the painting into nine parts, one for each cover. Enlargements of these cuts will stress the details and the figurative symbols in addition to the abstract colour spaces. The composition, the painter’s touch, colour, rhythm and texture of the autonomous image are, so to speak, an interpretation analogous to the piece of music.
In an indirect manner, Image de Moreau refers by its choice of cover to the Andriessen work Souvenirs d’enfance, which was also published in a box in 1969.
Bas Mantel