composer
Simon Burgers werd op 12 maart 1958 te Den Haag geboren.
Opleiding
Hij studeerde piano van 1975 tot 1977 bij Chris Veelo, daarna tot mei 1979 bij Leendert Huges aan het Sweelinck ...
related works
Chrysoliet : voor piano, 1981 / Simon Burgers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Quadrupelconcert : versie voor 4 saxofoons en harmonieorkest, 1984 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and Wind Band
Scoring:
2141 4sax 4232 2crt 2barh 2euph timp 4perc cb 4sax-solo
Four Movements : for saxophone quartet and wind orchestra / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and Wind Band
Scoring:
4sax-solo picc 2fl 2ob 3cl cl-b 2fg 2sax-a 2sax-t sax-bar 3trp 4h 4trb tb-ten tb-bass db timp
Mater dolorosa : for saxophone quartet & wind orchestra, 1999 / Henk Alkema
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and Wind Band
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 13cl cl-b 2fg 4sax 4h 3crt/trp 3trb tenh 3tb timp 3perc 4sax-solo
composition
Concert voor altsaxofoon en harmonieorkest : 1986 / Simon Burgers
Contains:
Allegro
Cadenza (Adagio)
Moderato
Description:
Program note (English): This is my first composition for big band orchestra. In 1987 the reduction for two pianos was premiered at De IJsbreker in Amsterdam. Especially for this piece I invented a new kind of tone scale: the so-called giant-tone-scale. Its range of not one but seven octaves makes this scale unique. A melody cannot be transposed literally, because in the new area also other tones exists. Only literal transpositions over (a manyfold of) seven octaves are possible. This has of course consequences for the forming of melodies but also, for example, for the harmonic idiom of the piece. Thus not all chords can be layered arbitrarily. Also the instrumentation is influenced by the giant-tone-scale: it is not possible to double a flute by a piccolo which plays an octave higher. The notes which are not in the giant-tone-scale are 'forbidden notes'. They don't appear in the piece at all, except for the cadence (the middle part) of the solo saxophone. This cadence only consists of forbidden notes!
- SIMON BURGERS