composer

Leeuw, Ton de

Ton de Leeuw was born on November 16, 1926 in Rotterdam. He died on May 31, 1996 in Paris (France). In 1949, after some years of composition lessons with Henk Badings, ...

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

Divertimento nr. 2 : voor fluit, hobo, cello (fagot) en klavecimbel, 1990 / Carlos Micháns

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-11 players); Wood Wind Ensemble and keyboard instrument
Scoring: fl ob vc/fg cemb

Sept pièces brèves : pour hautbois, clarinette et piano, 1980, opus 55 / Jan Masséus

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wood Wind Ensemble and keyboard instrument
Scoring: ob cl pf

Musette et pastourelle : fluit, hobo, piano, 1955 / Ludwig Otten

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wood Wind Ensemble and keyboard instrument
Scoring: fl ob pf

composition

Trio : for flute (also alto flute and piccolo), bass clarinet (ad lib. also alto clarinet) and piano, 1990 / Ton de Leeuw

Contains:
Con moto
Allant
Description:
Program note (English): The first movement of the "Trio" opens with a duet for the two winds, which - each in their own way - play the same melodic line. Somewhat later they are joined by the piano, and in this episode the same melodic line can be heard twice.
Then, after a short piano solo, the two winds produce a new theme. Though they still form a close unity, they now somewhat shift with regard to each other. It is a play of shifting motifs in different degrees of motion, ending in a quiet way.
In the second and final movement, we hear the same tendency, viz. to appear as one single and many-coloured unity. But the rhythmic contrasts are growing. The piano plays a cyclic theme as a basis, which in fact rules the whole movement, but is repeatedly interrupted and superseded by increasingly fast tumbles by all instruments. Finally it returns to the quiet cycle of the beginning.
In this movement, the cyclic element can be directly heard, but in fact the whole "Trio" is ruled by a cyclic motion. It functions, as it were, as a musical respiration to which all temporal processes in the music are subject. This is one of the aspects of the so called 'widened modality', which has dominates nearly all the composer's works since 1980. - TON DE LEEUW