composer

Keulen, Geert van

Geert van Keulen werd op 11 oktober 1943 in Amsterdam geboren. Opleiding Hij studeerde klarinet en basklarinet aan het Amsterdamse Muzieklyceum, compositie bij Robert Heppener, instrumentatie bij Hans Henkemans en orkestdirectie bij ...

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

Two Japanese Screen Paintings : for chamber orchestra / Fergus Currie

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: fl(fl-a) ob eh cl fg 2h tpt trb hp cel 2perc 2vn vla vc db

Fanfare Hephaistos : for cobla / Huba de Graaff, 1996

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: faviol 2tibles 2tenoras 2trp 2fiscols trb cb

Gravity waves : for ensemble, 1996 / Marcel Minderhoud

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 1221 sax-t 1110 timp perc clav 2vl vla vc cb

composition

Wals : voor 12 instrumentalisten, 1979/80 / Geert van Keulen

Description:
Program note (English): Wals is not a waltz, but the work is based upon the same rhythmic tension between double and triple time which is characteristic of the Viennese waltz. Although Wals is almost entirely 2/4, the rudiments of a waltz can be perceived here and there and with increasing distinctness towards the end. The culmination of this process is that the last two bars are written in 3/4 after all: "Tempo di Valse". Thus the development is the reverse of that of "La Valse" by Ravel, where the waltz breaks off in the last two bars. The second principal element is a three-part canon with the parts played in hocket style. In overall terms this hocket technique becomes increasingly complex as the work progresses, until shortly before the end total fragmentation is achieved. - GEERT VAN KEULEN