This is the explicit theme of De Staat , which sets those parts of Plato's text which discuss outlawing the musical instruments and modes not useful to the utopian state. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Ditto the fiery moto perpetuo the whole ensemble creates in unison in the middle of the piece, or the waves of strange repeated chords that pass through the music near the end — a weirdly disturbing noise that's both static yet full of energy? Don't bet against it, Louis; maybe Plato was right after all … Five key links De Stijl Hadewijch Workers Union De Snelheid De Volharding This article contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a reader clicks through and makes a purchase. Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague , before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin. 
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The second, a nun's vision of her union with Jesus, is a magnificently sensual scena for andrisssen female singer and ensemble called Hadewijch. De Staat is a hard-hitting classic referencing Plato and Brecht in the struggle between 'pure' music and its social context. The braying chorale builds like the most gleeful of hyperdramatic soundtracks. De Staat has nothing to do with Greek music, except perhaps for the use of oboes and harps and for the fact that the entire work is based on tetrachords, groups of four notes, which also explains the scoring for the andrieszen of four.
Order by newest oldest recommendations. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE. The recent Anais Nin is a monodrama for soprano the superb Cristlna Zavalloni and ensemble about the French-Cuban writer who had relationships with her father, the composer Joaquin Nin, and a raft of lovers. But it's also quintessentially itself, and quintessential Andriessen, because every bar of it has an absolutely compelling materiality see what I've done thereboth on the level of the four parts and the cycle as a whole.
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You'll be as blown away by the energy of De Stijl as I was if you haven't heard it before. If only it were true that musical innovation could change the laws of xtaat State! Music to change the world? By clicking on an affiliate link, you accept that third-party cookies will be set. This programme note may be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with a credit to the composer.
On one hand, De Materie is an unclassifiable hybrid of theatre, narration, singing, instrumental music and philosophical reflection.
Louis Andriessen
The title means The Republic, and this piece is an imagination of what Plato's Republic means and meant for music; a musical discourse on how his ideas about music might relate to contemporary society. Then suddenly, a magical moment, the ensemble entering with startling force and conviction, pounding pianos, harps and electric guitars tracing out a shimmering pattern, whilst 4 vocalists intone a soaring, eerie melody.
He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in I regard this as the major subject of the work. Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. How you arrange your musical material, the techniques you use and the instruments you score for, are largely determined by your own social circumstances and listening experience, and the availability of financial support.
Andriessen's mature music combines the influences of jazz, American minimalismIgor Stravinsky and Claude Vivier. It is a piece which has inspired two generations of musicians and, I suspect, ajdriessen shortly inspire a new one: Aandriessen, in the USA, a whole movement has emerged in the form of the Bang on a Can festival, which has a strong flavour of Andriessen's punky approach to classical music.
Large scale pieces such as De Staat ['Republic'] —76for example, are influenced by the energy of the big band music of Count Basie and Stan Kenton and the repetitive procedures of Steve Reichboth combined with bright, clashing dissonances.
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Since the early s he has lojis to write for conventional symphony orchestras and has instead opted to write for his own idiosyncratic instrumental combinations, which often retain some traditional orchestral instruments alongside electric guitarselectric bassesand congas. It made a huge impression abdriessen me. It is hard to imagine those composers, as brilliant as they are, inventing something as bizarrely imaginative as the racing concertante woodblocks in Andriessej Snelheid "Velocity", or the explosive, accelerating hammer blows of the amplified ensemble which open De Materie "Matter", And having inspired a generation of Dutch composers with the violence, anger and sheer energy of pieces such as De Volharding and Workers UnionAndriessen's music has seemed to take a surprising turn towards a more conventional expression and lyricism.
To the annoyance of some, he is pretty much synonymous with Dutch new music these days. This is the final scene of Rosaa Brechtian touch at the end of a work of otherwise gothic ataat.
However, the moment the musical material is ordered andrisssen becomes culture and hence a social entity. This puts the old firebrand in the paradoxical position of now being the figurehead, the establishment.
October Xtaat duration: Nevertheless, this strongly local perspective comes alongside the claim that 'this piece—and, to a certain extent, Andriessen's music more generally—is the outcome of a comprehensive reassessment of the very criteria by which contemporary music should be judged': This kind of self-sufficient approach is commonplace amongst composers today, of course, but Andriessen forged the mould.
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