related works
String Quartet Nº 1 : The 4 Temperaments / Steven Hoogenberk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
Trois conversations : pour alto solo, 1995-1996, opus 161 / Louis Toebosch
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Viola
Scoring:
vla
Thin Air : Version for viola / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Viola
Scoring:
vla
Canzona : per viola sola, 1984 / Jan van Amerongen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Viola
Scoring:
vla
composition
Fantasy on the Book of Rings : for viola / Steven Hoogenberk
Other authors:
Hoogenberk, Steven
(Composer)
Description:
Miyamoto Musashi, the author of the Book of 5 Rings, was one of the most legendary Samurai of Japan. In a very special way he describes the strategy and philosophy behind the martial arts – as influenced by Zen, Shinto and Confucianism.
While living in a cave in the mountains he completed this book a few weeks before his death in 1645. Only in the 1970s this unique work became popular in the West, speaking almost equally to businessmen, philosophers and practitioners of the martial arts.
Steven Hoogenberk