Jan van Vlijmen

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Jan van Vlijmen (Rotterdam, 11 oktober 1935 - Réveillon (France), 24 december 2004) was a Dutch composer. He studied the piano, the organ, and, with Kees van Baaren, composition at the Utrecht Conservatory. He was then director of the Amersfoort Music School (1961–1965) and lecturer in theory at the Utrecht Conservatory (1965–1967). In 1967 he became deputy director of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, succeeding van Baaren as director three years later, a position he held until 1985; he also continued to teach composition. In 1984 he was appointed director of the Nederlandse Opera, which he left, following disagreements over government funding policy, in 1987. From 1990 to 1997 he was director of the Holland Festival. During the 1960s van Vlijmen drew attention for his involvement in the turbulent debate about the Dutch cultural establishment. He collaborated on the opera Reconstructie with Louis Andriessen, Peter Schat, Misha Mengelberg and Reinbert de Leeuw (with whom he also later worked on his second opera, Axel). Van Vlijmen’s own development as a composer came initially from the serialism of the Second Viennese School, and soon after from postwar developments, as exemplified in particular by Pierre Boulez’s Structures and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Carré and Gruppen, whose concept of groups is reflected in his Gruppi of 1962. However, van Vlijmen was never a slavish follower of serial thought, and already by the Serenata II for flute and four instrumental groups (196

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Schönberg Ensemble Edition

Jan Van Vlijmen

Quatuor / Facing Death / Quintetto Per Archi

Un Malheureux Vêtu de Noir

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Monumentum

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anthology of the royal concertgebouw orchestra: 4 live the radio recordings 1970-1980

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Composers' Voice 8302

Jan van Vlijmen: Monumentum

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Schšnberg Ensemble Edition

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400 JAAR NEDERLANDSE MUZIEK

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van Vlijmen: Radio (Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw)

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The Dutch Legacy II

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