composer

Vlijmen, Jan van

Jan van Vlijmen writes chamber music, operas, songs and orchestral works. His compositions are strongly influenced by the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg. He is also attracted to the sumptuous ...

related works

Die Kunst der Fuge : = The art of fugue, for 14 instruments, 1999-2000, revision 2001 / (arrangement: Jan van Vlijmen), Johann Sebastian Bach

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Instruments: fl-a eh cl-b fg trp trb g hp man vl 2vla vc cb

Chiaroscuro : for piano solo, 1995 / Willem Jeths

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

Five cartoons : for piano, 1982 / Simon Pluister

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

Sonatine : voor twee piano's, 1961 / Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: 2pf

composition

Costruzione : per due pianoforti, 1960 / Jan van Vlijmen

Contains:
Vivo, ma non troppo
Lento
Description:
Program note (English): This piece may be called serial in so far as use is made of rows for pitch (12 tone row), duration and rhythm. Although there is a large degree of dynamic differentiation, this element is completely free. There are consequently no rows for dynamics or timbre (in this case methods of touch). In the first movement, the second half is the rhythmic retrograde form of the first half. In the last movement, the 'Vivo' is a strict canon in contrary motion, with an increasing density in rhythmic movement. - JAN VAN VLIJMEN