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

Y después : for voice and ensemble, 1983 / text: Federico García Lorca, Louis Andriessen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Instruments: voice fl 3sax h 3trp 3trb pf cb

Liber I Selectorum Psalmorum : for 4-6 voices (Volume 2) / Various composers, assembled by Johann vom Berg; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK

't Er viel 'ne keer : = Un's fil eimol, (herinnering aan Beethoven's Septuor), voor 8-stemmig gemengd koor a cappella, 1959 / [tekst] Guido Gezelle, Harold C. King

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK8

Stille nacht : for mixed choir / Sem Dresden

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