composer
Willem Frederik Bon was born on June 15, 1940 in Amersfoort. He died on April 14, 1983 in Nijeholtpade.
He studied clarinet with Bram de Wilde in Amsterdam, composition at the ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Instruments:
alt 2fl fl-a 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp perc cel vibr mar hp str(10.10.8.6.4.)
Dance of the second-born : for orchestra, opus 31, 2001 / Frank van Gompel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2222 2sax-a 2110 perc str
News Item in the Year of Mozart : for orchestra / Vladimir Martynov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
picc 3fl 3ob 3cl 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b/tb str
Mors aeterna : for orchestra / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 2h 2trp 2trb(trb-b_ tb timp perc hp org str
composition
Circe : prelude for orchestra, (1972) / Willem Frederik Bon
Description:
Program note (English): The piece is based on the tenth book of Homerus' Odyssey and symbolises the episode of Odysseuss' travels, when reaches the island of Circe. After transforming his crew into pigs Circe uses her charms to chain Odysseus to her bed for two years. The curse in which Odysseus is caught is symbolised in the piece in harp, vibraphone, celesta and piano, and in the middle movement in the first and second violins and oboes. The tranquillity disappears shortly afterwards as Odysseus' feelings of homesickness and military lust arise. Brass and percussion illustrate this phase in the tale. Following a large climax, which introduces the eventual departure from Circes' island, the scale passages in harp and wind instruments from the beginning return once more, but now descending, and the work concludes with a vague recollection to the beginning chords full of a southern warmth, with which the piece opened, as the drawing of the setting against which this history takes place. - WILLEM
FREDERIK BON