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

Summer rites at noon : for two orchestras facing each other, 1971, 1984-87 / orchestrated and edited by Jan van Vlijmen, Rudolf Escher

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Instruments: 3455 2sax 4555 12perc 3pf 2hp str(16.16.12.10.16.)

Toccata : opus 40, voor piano, 1988 / Jacob ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

Intervallen : zes inventies voor piano / J. Mul

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

Meeting Point : for piano / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

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