composer

Leeuw, Ton de

Ton de Leeuw was born on November 16, 1926 in Rotterdam. He died on May 31, 1996 in Paris (France). In 1949, after some years of composition lessons with Henk Badings, ...

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Gebed om vrede : voor gemengd koor, fluit (of hobo), hoorn (of fagot) en orgel, (1984) / Albert de Klerk

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Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
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Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
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Trans : for vocal and instrumental choirs, 1981-'82 / Daan Manneke

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Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
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composition

Lamento pacis I : for choir and instruments / on texts of Erasmus, Ton de Leeuw

Publisher: Amsterdam: Donemus, cop. 1969
Publisher's number: 07811
Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: 4sopr 4alt 4ten 4bas 2perc 2vl 2vla 2cb
Remarks: Voor koor S(4)A(4)T(4)B(4), 2 violen, 2 altviolen, 2 contrabassen en 2 slagwerkers. - Ook bekend o.d.t. Homage to Gesualdo di Venosa. - De 3 delen van Lamento Pacis kunnen ook zelfstandig worden uitgevoerd. - Nederlandse vert. uitsluitend apart afgedrukt. - In opdracht van het ministerie van Cultuur. - Jaar van comp.: 1969. - Tijdsduur: ca. 7'
Duration: 7'00"
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Other authors:
Erasmus, Desiderius (librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): (Première: June 14, 1969 - NCRV Vocal Ensemble and Percussion Group Amsterdam, Marinus Voorberg, conducting - Holland Festival) -
Erasmus completed Querela Pacis in 1517. This complaint of peace provides us with a striking view of the restless political situation in those years. It contains a large number of protests against nearly all the leading persons and institutions from political, social and religious life, and culminates in a call for true peace, which in its failure is just as pathetic as corresponding pleas from our time. Nothing than the works in Erasmus' oeuvre can better function as a bridge to our own time. This text was the foundation of a composition for a 16 voiced choir and eight instrumentalists. Only some selected fragments were used from the original text. I was more concerned about the moral aspects of the contents and the direct understanding of it. . This comprehension is nearly excluded because the choir sings the original Latin version, and by the complex manner of textual treatment. The composition has three movements, which greatly differ in character from each other (they can be also
be performed separately). The first movement characterises itself by large, monolithic block-systems, which are opposite to each other. For that purpose the performers are separated into two spatial groups. These passages are interrupted by smaller, more transparent fragments, which have an entirely different character, among others due to the multiple use of microtones. Microtones are in our time what chromaticism was in the time of Gesualdo da Venosa. For this reason this movement is a homage to this Italian master. - TON DE LEEUW

Sheet Music
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