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Joep Franssens
12+ albums
contemporary classicalClassicaldutchminimalismcomposer
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Biography Joep Franssens studied composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1982 he continued his studies with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory, where, in 1988, he concluded his study period with the Composition Prize. He received commissions from, among others, the Rotterdam Art Foundation, the Eduard van Beinum Foundation, Concert- en congresgebouw de Doelen, national radio stations AVRO and NCRV, and the SNS Reaal Fund. Well-known conductors like Yakov Kreizberg, Tõnu Kaljuste, Lucas Foss, and Gerd Albrecht perform his works with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. Franssens is considered as representing ‘New Spirituality’ in new music in the Netherlands, the international movement of which Arvo Pärt and Gya Kancheli have drawn much international attention. In 1999 Franssens composed Magnificat, commissioned by the Festival of Spiritual Music, premiered in the Concertgebouw at the festival’s opening concert. The national TV station NPS made a documentary The Third Ear, in which the spiritual movement was discussed. The choral music of Joep Franssens has been performed by the Swedish Radio Choir, the BBC Singers, the Latvian National State Choir, the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir and the Netherlands Chamber Choir, who in 2000 - led by the Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste - took it on tours
top songs
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Harmony of the Spheres: I. First Movement
2892Harmony of the Spheres: II. Second Movement
2553Harmony of the Spheres
1894Harmony of the Spheres: III. Third Movement I
1875Harmony of the Spheres: III. Third Movement II
1646Harmony of the Spheres: IV. Fourth Movement
1547Harmony of the Spheres: V. Fifth Movement
1298The Gift of Song: Night Music
549Movement I
4910Old Songs New Songs
40albums
Franssens: Harmony of the Spheres
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Franssens: Piano Works - The Gift of Song / Winter Child
Harmony of the spheres
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Franssens: Journey Under Brilliant Skies, Three Etudes, Old Songs, New Songs
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Franssens: Dwaallicht - Taking the Waters - Winter Child
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Franssens: Roaring Rotterdam / Harmony of the Spheres - part I / Magnificat
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Franssens: Echo's - Phasing - Sanctus
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Echo's / Phasing / Sanctus
Minimal Piano Collection Vol. XX
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Straight Lines
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Minimal Piano Collection Vol.XX: Franssens, Rabinovitch, Monk
Echo's, Phasing, Sanctus