Background
Andriessen, Louis was born on June 6, 1939 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Son of Hendrik Andriessen.
( ‘I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’...)
‘I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’, Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between ‘early’ and ‘late’ Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into ‘Russian’, ‘neoclassical’ and ‘serial’. In an essay which continually shifts in its approach, style and perspective, the authors elaborate on their insight that a single, immutable compositional attitude underlies the whole of Stravinsky’s oeuvre. By this token the book not only offers an analysis of the composer’s protean work and artistry but takes example by it as well.
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(This non-analytical discussion of Stravinsky's music by t...)
This non-analytical discussion of Stravinsky's music by two distinguished composers provides, in episodic fashion, new perspectives on the style, attitude, and historical presence of selected works by this giant of twentieth-century music.
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Andriessen, Louis was born on June 6, 1939 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Son of Hendrik Andriessen.
Student, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, 1957—1962. Studied with Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin, 1962—1965.
Composer and pianist, Amsterdam, since 1965. Founder Orkest de Volharding, since 1972. Teacher instrumentation Royal Conservatory of The Hague, 1974—1978, teacher composition, since 1978.
Composer musical theater works for group Baal, 1976. Founder Hoketus, 1976—1987. Teacher California Institute Arts., 1984.
Artistic director Meltdown Festival, London, 1994. Featured composer Tanglewood Music Festival, Massachusetts, Settembre Musica, Turin, Italy, 1996, Queensland Festival, Brisbane, Australia, 2001.
(This non-analytical discussion of Stravinsky's music by t...)
( ‘I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’...)
Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters (honorary).
Married Jeannette Yanikian, 1996.