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

Reconstructie : een moraliteit / door Louis Andriessen, Hugo Claus, Reinbert de Leeuw, Misja Mengelberg, Harry Mulisch, Peter Schat en Jan van Vlijmen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Musical
Instruments: soloists 3GK4 rec 0340 3sax 0331 2g el.cemb cembalet clavinet pianet 5el.org 2pf 4vla 5vc cb electronics

2 Etudes : pour piano / Israel Olman

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Instruments: pf

Balletten uit De vogels en Marsyas : voor piano / Alphons Diepenbrock

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano; Speak Voice and Piano
Instruments: pf / recit pf

Growing Silence : for piano / Kris Oelbrandt

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