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

Estudio diatónico : for eight voices / Mateo Soto

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK

Paraklitikon : for vocal ensemble, 1990 / on phrases from two Psalms of David in Greek translation, Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK10

Musica Divina (Volume II) : Madrigals for 6 & 7 voices / Assembled by Pietro Phalesio; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK

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