composer
General: 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 ...
related works
Nuit d'été : voor piano vierhandig, 1957 / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Instruments:
pf4h
Polder Gezangen : voor gemengd koor / Jan Vriend
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Instruments:
GK4
Lune, plaine, ciel et mort : for choir / Jan Vriend, 2007
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Instruments:
GK4
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Instruments:
GK8 tape
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