composer

Loevendie, Theo

Loevendie calls himself a “latecomer as a composer”. Until the 1970s, he was known only as a jazz saxophonist. He gained international fame with his quartet (with Hans Dulfer, Arjen ...

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
Scoring: pf

Sonate : fluit, hobo, fagot, cembalo, 1959 / Henk Stam

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-11 players); Wind Ensemble and keyboard instrument (3-8 players)
Scoring: fl ob fg cemb

Trio : for clarinet, viola and piano, 1921 / ed. by John Smit, Julius Röntgen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-11 players)
Scoring: cl pf vl

Pluri-interpretable : for a flute-player and a percussionist, (1972) / Koos Terpstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-11 players)
Scoring: fl(pic fl-a) perc

composition

Venus and Adonis suite : for 5 instruments, 1981 / Theo Loevendie

Description:
Program note (English): The Venus en Adonis Suite is based on stage music, written for a theatrical performance of Shakespeare's poem 'Venus and Adonis'. The instrumentation has been left unchanged. Some musical parts were added.
The performance in 1980 of the stage music written in this scoring gave rise to the founding of the now famous Nieuw Ensemble. - THEO LOEVENDIE