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Louis Andriessen
12+ albums
contemporary classicaldutchminimalismAvant-GardeClassical
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Louis Andriessen (born 6 June 1939 in Utrecht, died 1 July 2021 in Weesp, Netherlands) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and his music is published by Donemus in the Netherlands and Boosey & Hawkes in the United Kingdom. His recordings appear on the Nonesuch Records label. Andriessen was born into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) and Caecilia Andriessen (1931-), and nephew of Willem Andriessen (1887-1964). Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin. Andriessen is married to the former Jeanette Yanikian, a guitarist. They have been a couple for over 40 years, but only married in 1996. Andriessen's early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post-war serialism (Series, 1958), pastiche (Anachronie I, 1966-67), and tape (Il Duce, 1973). His reaction to what he perceived as the conservatism of much of the Dutch contemporary music scene quickly moved him to form a radically alternative musical aesthetic of his own. Since the early 1970s he has refused to write for conventional symphony orchestras and has instead opted to write for his own idiosyncratic instrumental combinations, which often retain some traditional orchestral instrum
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De Stijl; M is for Man, Music, Mozart
Gigantic Dancing Human Machine
De Staat
Louis Andriessen: Rosa - The Death Of A Composer
Writing to Vermeer
mausoleum / hoketus
La Commedia
Anaïs Nin | De Staat
Louis Andriessen: De Materie
Louis Andriessen: De Tijd
Louis Andriessen: La Passione
Rosa, the death of a composer