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(Loo-e’ An-dre’-sen) b. 1939 Dutch composer Born into a distinguished family of Dutch musicians, Andriessen made a name for himself as part of an activist group of young composers who demonstrated at concerts of the Concertgebouw and together created a two-hour musical ‘morality’, Reconstructie, on the life of Che Guevara. Following his encounter with American minimalism, works such ...

• Personalities
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• Composer
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Tevot, Dances from ‘Powder Her Face’, Chamber Orchestra of Europe (cond) Thomas Adès, Berlin PO (cond) Sir Simon Rattle (EMI/Warner) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Louis Andriessen | Contemporary | Classical ...

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minimalism from the mid-1970s onwards, including that of Reich, might be better described as post-minimal in its willingness to add elements from other quarters. The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen (b. 1939) has been an increasingly significant figure in this regard, taking the repetitive thrust of minimalism but bringing to the mix European dissonance, political radicalism, intellectual ...

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1561–1613). Hocket has since inspired many composers, both modernist (Harrison Birtwistle, b. 1934, for instance, in his Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, 1984) and minimalist (Louis Andriessen, b. 1939: Hocketus). The canonic processes of Ockeghem find their way into the Requiem of 1963–65 by György Ligeti (1923–2006), and even the ‘Caput’ plainchant melody turns up in ...