composer
Kees Arntzen was born on 5 September 1957 in Amsterdam.
After finishing his degree in music education and guitar at the Amsterdam Conservatorium, Kees Arntzen studied theory and composition at ...
related works
Partita 'Wereldwijven' : for harpsichord / Kees Arntzen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Instruments:
cemb
Fantasia II : per clavicembalo, (1972-'73) / Piet Ketting
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Instruments:
cemb
Textos : for harpsichord, 1987 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Instruments:
cemb
Blue monk : for clavichord, (1974) / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Instruments:
clav
composition
Partita 'Wereldwijven' : for harpsichord / Kees Arntzen
Contains:
Diferencias 'Mar y Sol'
Tombeau ‘Mbira Melody Memorial’
Samba-psalm ‘The Chilliwack Chick’
Rondo-arabesque ‘Habibi cum figuris’
Description:
This new partita for solo harpsichord is a portrait of women who have been important to me from all over the world: my beloved Jo-anne Kobald, the industrious composer and conductor Marisol Gentile, my former class-mate Magda Wisch who died much too early and the Persian-German guitar player Negin Habibi. Each of the following four miniatures is based on the principle of soggetto cavato, in which the letters in a name are transmitted to notes in the same order, forming a guiding musical theme in that way.
Kees Arntzen, Amsterdam 2020