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

Drie liederen op Duitse tekst : (Li Tai Po, Thu-Fu, Otto Julius Bierbaum), voor mezzosopraan en instrumentaal ensemble, 1927 / instrumentatie: Joep Straesser, 1986, Henriëtte Bosmans

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments: sopr-m fl ob cl fg h perc hp vl vla vc cb

Octet : for 4 wind & 4 string instruments, 1986 / Ronald Ford

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Instruments: fl ob cl fg vl vla vc cb

Hommage à Milhaud : 11 solo-instrumenten, 1945 / Jurriaan Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Instruments: fl ob cl fg sax-a h trp trb vl vla vc

De druiven zijn zuur : for flute, bass clarinet (tenor saxophone), violin and violoncello, 1991, revisie 1992 / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Instruments: fl cl-b/sax-t 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