composer

Heppener, Robert

Robert Heppener was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He died on August 25, 2009 in Bergen. He studied piano with Jan Odé and Johan van den Boogert at the Conservatory of ...

related works

Een suite voor De Suite : tien composities voor piano (2- en 4- handig), twee piano's [en] viool en piano / van tien componisten

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano; Violin and keyboard instrument
Instruments: pf pf4h 2pf vl and pf

John's lullaby : mixed choir, string orchestra, soundtracks, (1985) / Ton Bruynèl

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and orchestra; Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Instruments: GK4 str(6.6.6.6.0.) soundtracks

The word unfinished : text on a lost language, for 16 choir groups and 9 sound tracks, opus 49, 1998/1999 / texts by Peter te Nuyl based on Aeschylus - Prometheus, Plato - The cave, King James Bible - Genesis 11, 1-9, Huub Kerstens

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir; Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Instruments: GK4 soundtracks

To wet a widow's eye : five Shakespeare songs, for contralto, tenor and 3 musicans / by Jurriaan Andriessen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s)
Instruments: alt ten chl(cl) vladg cemb(port)

composition

Hymn to harmony : for soprano, counter-tenor, recorder, viola da gamba, marimba and tape, (1987), revision 1993 / Robert Heppener

Other authors:
Shakespeare, William (librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): On a part of Lorenzo and Jessica's dialogue from the fifth act of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Music of the Spheres. Music for immortal souls. Not for us. We are cut off from it by our mortal covering. "We cannot hear it, not hear it..."