Richard Rijnvos

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According to many, Richard Rijnvos is one of the leading composers in the Netherlands of the "post-Andriessen" generation. Born in 1964, he studied composition with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian Ferneyhough at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and followed a postgraduate at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg (Germany). In the period 1986-92 he came in touch with the American composers Morton Feldman and John Cage, who caused crucial changes in his development. There are also a number of distinct extramusical influences by artists such as William Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Beuys and Italo Calvino. cycles Since 1993 Richard Rijnvos concentrates on the realisation of compositions that are part of larger series. The work Stanza, for instance, exists in a diatonic, chromatic and microtonal version. Between 1995 and 2000 he created the eighty-minute cycle Block Beuys. Modelled on the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt collection with the same name, which consists of objects by the German visual artist Joseph Beuys, he dedicated a piece of music to each of its seven rooms. Late 2008 Richard Rijnvos completed Uptown|Downtown, an urban panorama in six 'movements'. This series - thought of as an evening-long dance production about city life in Manhattan – include the orchestral works Times Square Dance, Washington Square Dance and Union Square Dance, as well as Grand Central Dance, Central Dance in the Park and ’cross Broadway for piano and chamber orchestra. (These last three compo

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Block Beuys

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Rijnvos: Riflessi

Richard Rijnvos | Composers' Voice Highlights

Horizon 5 (Live)

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Rijnvos: Riflesso sull'incontro

Rijnvos: Uptown|Downtown - an urban panorma in six movements

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Horizon 7

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Rijnvos: la Serenissima

John Snijders | Transatlantic Swing

Le rideau se baisse lentement durant toute la musique suivante / Stalker / Stanza / Palomer / Atlantique

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Rijnvos: Aphrodíte & Seléne

Study in five parts

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