composer
Steven Hoogenberk, born in 1941, got his first lessons in composition at the age of 10 from Hans Brandts Buys in Hilversum. Later, at the Conservatory of The Hague he ...
related works
On the Edge of Reality : 3 fantasy pieces for piano / Steven Hoogenberk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Serenade : für Streichtrio (Violine, Viola, Violoncello), 1977 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String Trio (violin, viola, cello)
Scoring:
vl vla vc
Bucephalus : voor piano / Klaas Govers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Three Shakespeare Sonnets (Opus 62) : for mixed choir and ensemble / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
choir fl cl perc vl vc
composition
Returning to Walden : for choir, brass ensemble and narrator / Steven Hoogenberk
Description:
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), friend and pupil of philosopher Emerson, was an individualist and lover of nature. In 1845 he built himself a wooden hut near Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived as a kind of Robinson Crusoe for 2 years. "Walden, or life in the Woods", published in 1854 is a record of that experiment in simple living. From that safe and friendly place he was looking upon his world and that other one - human society - in which he already saw the dangers of overproduction, overconsumption and overorganisation.
Walden Pond becomes a mirror into which one can measure the depth of his own nature...
Steven Hoogenberk