composer

Andriessen, Louis

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

Nuit d'été : voor piano vierhandig, 1957 / Louis Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano 4 hands
Instruments: pf4h

Psalm 119 : for mixed choir / Kris Oelbrandt; translation Kees Waaijman

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK4

O Crux Gloriosa: Four Motets and One Mass on the Holy Cross : for 4 and 5 voices / Various authors; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK

Blossom songs : for mixed choir a cappella, 1968 / Joep Straesser

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: 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