composer

Andriessen, Louis

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

Workers union : symfonic movement for any loud sounding group of instruments, for variable ensemble, 1975 / Louis Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Variable instrumentation
Instruments: variable

Three Psalm motets : for mixed choir a capella, 2002 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK5

Two Rossetti songs : for mixed choir a cappella, 1991 / poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lowell Dijkstra

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK8

6 Masses & 7 Motets (Volume I) : for 4, 5, 6 and 8 voices / Alonso Lobo; 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