related works
De negen symfonieën van Beethoven : voor promenade-orkest en ijscobel / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3 trb timp 2perc pf el.g g-b str
Muziek : voor clavichord of clavicimbaal, 1960 / Ary Verhaar
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Harpsichord
Scoring:
clav/cemb
Fantasia con Preludio : for harpsichord / Donald Yu
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord
Scoring:
cemb
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harpsichord; Piano; Organ
Scoring:
cemb/pf/org
composition
Overture to Orpheus : for harpsichord, 1982 / Louis Andriessen
Author(s):
Andriessen, Louis
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): A harpsichord has little to do with a piano, but rather with plucked instruments such as harp, guitar, lute. Orpheus' prelude-playing came to my mind when writing the composition. A reference to dramatic development in this piece makes it an overture for an imaginary opera in which Orpheus plays the leading part. The fringe between canon and unisono techniques - just as in my other works from recent years - is the musical subject of the composition. - LOUIS ANDRIESSEN