composer
Bertus van Lier was born in Utrecht on September 10, 1906. He died on February 14, 1972.
He studied the violoncello with Max Orobio da Castro at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Later ...
related works
Variaties en thema : (1967) / gecomponeerd door Bertus van Lier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4230 timp perc str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
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3343 4432 4Wag-tb timp perc str
Sinfonia: Luci nella notte : for orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
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3fl 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb perc 2pf str
Tours de carte : variations symphoniques, pour orchestre, 1987 / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp perc str
composition
Divertimento facile : voor orkest, gecomponeerd in het jaar 1957 / door Bertus van Lier
Contains:
Introduzione recitando I-Tempo di scherzo
Introduzione recitando II-Allegretto
Description:
Program note (English): The commission from the muicipality of Amsterdam for 'a work for orchestra with a maximum for double woodwind, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets and 2 members of the percussion section' to last 'from 10 to 20 minutes' aroused in me the need to write an entertaining work not having an emphatically "symphonic" character, which would at the same time be received without special effort, in other words easily, by the public. 'Facile' consequently does not mean that the work is easy for the performers, since at certain points it is not. At first hearing, the work appears to have two movements: 1. Introduction a, Scherzo-trio-adagio-trio-scherzo and 2. Introduction b, Rondo (Finale) - but the two slow introductions (a + b) nevertheless imperceptibly carry some weight - almost the weight of an 'absent First Movement', while the adagio fragment, in the middle of the Scherzo, evokes associations of a 'slow movement' without there nevertheless being a more symphonic development thereof. There
has been an effort in ths Divertimento not to delve so 'symphonically' into any of the divertissement should be violated. Towards the end, the principal material in the game forms a contrapuntal whole from which there afterwards nevertheless appears a connexion with previously contrasting elements. - BERTUS VAN LIER