composer
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music; he won the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He became a full ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Instruments:
vl
Deux mélodies : pour chant et piano, 1946-1947 / Karel Trow
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Instruments:
voice pf
Twee liederen : voor lage stem en piano / [tekst] van Frans Bastiaanse, Herman Mulder
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Instruments:
low pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano; Voice and instrument(s)
Instruments:
high perc pf / high(perc) pf
composition
Drei stille Lieder : opus 50, for voice and piano, 1991 / poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Jacob ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Holderlin, Friedrich
(librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): (First performance in the UK: 22-2-2000 - British Music Information Centre, London - Clare Lesser and David Lesser)This composition is related to 'Postnuclear Winterscenario', 'Diverso il Tempo' and 'Triangolo', all written during the same period. The plain score is based on the two-sharp diatonic scale. Harmonic changes are being suggested by putting the same notes in different positions. Drei Stille Lieder should be performed 'piano' and without any melodrama. The music should almost 'stand still', in order to express the beauty of Hölderlin's lyrics. It can be sung by a mezzo-soprano or an alto, but also (one octave lower) by a tenor or baritone. The piano part could also be played by a harp. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS