composer

Straesser, Joep

Joep Straesser was born in Amsterdam on March 11, 1934. He died on September 22, 2004 in Loenersloot. Joep Straesser studied musicology from 1953 to 1955 at the University of Amsterdam.

related works

Neue Niederländische Klaviermusik : = Contemporary Dutch piano music, Heft 1 = Book 1 / mit Werken von = containing works by J. Andriessen, R. du Bois, G. Janssen ... [et al.], herausgegeben von = edited by Ton Hartsuiker

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

Suite / R. Colaço Osorio-Swaab

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Instruments: fl vl vla

Bicinium : for tenor recorder and violoncello, 1998 / Joep Straesser

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Instruments: rec-t vc

Kwintet : altfluit, basklarinet, hoorn, viool, violoncello, 1979 / Gene Carl

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Instruments: fl-a cl-b h vl vc

composition

Intersections 4 : for oboe, violin, viola and 'cello, 1972, rev. 1984 / Joep Straesser

Contains:
Moderato
Allegretto
Presto
Lento
Description:
Program note (English): 'Just like the Spring Quartet' for string quartet (1971), this work shows a clear sobering down compared to my compositions from the sixties. With the revision in 1984 the third movement, which in my view was too long and rather weak, was replaced by a much shorter, very fast movement. Without interruption it is followed by (and in a way it functions as an upbeat for) the extremely slow fourth movement, which I consider one of the finest 'Satzen' from these years and in which short melodic gestures stand out against a slowly shifting harmonic background. - JOEP STRAESSER