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

Het lege kwartier : = (Dimora del vuoto), voor tenor, sopraan en ensemble, 1991/1995 / Elmer Schönberger

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s)
Instruments: sopr ten fl fl(fl-a) trp 2perc hp pf 2vla 2vc

Tropico : for tenor, bass baritone and soundtracks, 1989/1990 / text by Bert Schierbeek, Ton Bruynèl

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal Ensemble (2-12); Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Instruments: ten bas-bar soundtracks

Whispered Truths : for six singers and ensemble of twelve instruments / Benedict Weisser ; text by Marcel Proust, 2006

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s)
Instruments: 6vocalists 2fl cl cl(cl-b) 2pf telegraph hp 2vl vla vc cb

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..."