composer
Louis Andriessen was born in Utrecht on June 6, 1939.
Education: After an early training in composition with his father, composer Hendrik Andriessen, he continued his studies with Kees van Baaren ...
related works
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Variable instrumentation
Scoring:
variable
Missa (sine tenore) : 1934 / Jacques Beers
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK3
Hodie Christus natus est : gemengd koor a cappella (orgel ad libitum), 1980 / Andries de Braal
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Mixed choir and organ
Scoring:
GK4 (org ad lib.)
Psalm 122 : for mixed choir / br Kris Oelbrandt ocso; text translated by Kees Waaijman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
composition
Flora Tristan : for mixed choir a cappella, 1990 / text by Fleur Bourgonje, Louis Andriessen
Other authors:
Bourgonje, Fleur
(librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): (Premiere: 23-3-1994 - Lincoln Center, New York - New York Virtuoso Singers, cond. Harold Rosenbaum). The multilingual text written by Fleur Bourgonje gave me the idea to write the composition in two different tempi that sound simultaneously: the male voices sing fast the narrative Spanish texts and the female voices always sing slow, like the invocations from Flora Tristan to her daughter. To the end of the piece, after the assault in the text, all the voices come together in the same rhythm. - LOUIS ANDRIESSEN