The Louis Andriessen Sound
Almost every music expert agrees: Louis Andriessen is one of the most important Dutch composers of the last decades. This month, his long-awaited biography Groots is de liefde was published by Ambo|Anthos. Dutch music publicist Jacqueline Oskamp worked on this Andriessen biography for about seven years. Andriessen wrote exceptionally characteristic music, in which he developed his own unconventional view of minimalism. Tight rhythms, angular, repetitive motifs, nice and loud and with the right dose of dissonance.
Andriessen’s ideas had a great influence, especially on the many foreign students who studied composition with him. Andriessen gained international fame with works such as De Staat, Hoketus and his opera De Materie.
In the Thema broadcast of Wednesday 25th June (8:00 PM – 10:00 PM), there will be plenty of attention for the foreign composers who are and were captivated by the Louis Andriessen Sound. You will hear music by famous and lesser-known students of Andriessen, including Graham Fitkin, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Hanna Kulenty, Julia Wolfe and Allison Cameron. His magnum opus Crossing the Border, for string orchestra, will be performed by his master student Steve Martland, who died much too early.
Listen :
De Louis Andriessen Sound, Thema-uitzending op woensdag 25 juni (20:00-22:00)
