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
The beatitudes : voor dubbelkoor, 2000 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
2GK4
Ik zag Cecilia komen en : voor klein gemengd koor a cappella / Emmy Frensel-Wegener
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
3sopr 2alt 2ten 2bas
Ciel, air et vents ... : for chamber choir, three poems by Ronsard, (1957) / Rudolf Escher
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