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

Un beau baiser : from the opera 'George Sand'; for choir a cappella / Louis Andriessen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK4

Promptuarium Musicum: Motets through the Liturgical Year (Volume IV) : for 5, 6, 7 & 8 voices and basso continuo (Other Feasts and Communion) / Collected by Abraham SchadÆus; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK

Estudio diatónico : for eight voices / Mateo Soto

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: GK

Psaume XIX "Les cieux racontent la gloire de Dieu" : pour baryton et choeur à voix mixtes / Daan Manneke

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Instruments: bar 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