Louis Andriessen

Dutch composer, pianist and university lecturer

Louis Joseph Andriessen (Dutch: [luˈʋi ˈɑndrisə(n)]; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style gradually shifted to a synthesis of American minimalism, big band jazz and the expressionism of Igor Stravinsky.

Born in Utrecht into a musical family, Andriessen studied composition under his father Hendrik Andriessen as well as Kees van Baaren and Luciano Berio. Andriessen taught at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1974 to 2012, influencing notable composers. His opera La Commedia, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and was selected in 2019 by critics at The Guardian as one of the most outstanding compositions of the 21st century.

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Works

... Not Being Sundered
...miserere...
A Very Sad Trumpet Sonata
A Very Sharp Trumpet Sonata
Ahania weeping
Anachronie II
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin: Allendy
Anaïs Nin: Artaud
Anaïs Nin: Basque Song
Anaïs Nin: Father Story
Anaïs Nin: Henry Was Tired
Anaïs Nin: I Await My Father
Anaïs Nin: Strange Days
Anaïs Nin: The Seduction
Anaïs Nin: The Seventh Day
Berceuse voor Annie van Os
Canzone 3. Utinam
Chorale
Chorale no. 1
Chorale no. 2
Commentaar
De Lijn
De Materie
De Materie: I. De Materie
De Materie: II. Hadewijch
De Materie: III. De Stijl
De Materie: IV.
De Staat
De Tijd
Deuxième chorale
Disco
Dubbelspoor
Elegy for Double Bass and Piano
Ende
Facing Death
Garden of Eros
Haags Hakkûh
Hoketus
Hout
Hout (1991)
Il Duce
Il Principe
Image de Moreau
Improvisatie
In Memoriam
Joli Commentaire
Klokken voor Haarlem
La Commedia
La Commedia: Part I: The Ship of Dis, or the Ship of Fools
La Commedia: Part II: Racconto dall'Inferno
La Commedia: Part III: Lucifer
La Commedia: Part IV: The Garden of Delights
La Commedia: Part V: Luce etterna
La Passione
La Passione: 1. Una canzone si rompe
La Passione: 2. La sera di fiera
La Passione: 3. Una forma nera cornuta
La Passione: 4. O Satana
La Passione: 5. Sul treno in corsa
La Passione: 6. Il Russo
La Passione: Introduction
La voce
Laat toch vrij die straat
Lacrimosa
Le Voile du bonheur
Letter From Cathy
Lied
Life
Life: I. Wind
Life: II. Couple
Life: III. In the Distance
Life: IV. Light
M is for Man, Music, Mozart
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: I. The Alphabet Song
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: II. Instrumental I
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: III. The Vesalius Song
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: IV. Instrumental II
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: V. The Schultz Song
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: VI. Instrumental III
M is for Man, Music, Mozart: VII. The Eisenstein Song
Mausoleum
May
May: Part I
May: Part II
Melodie
Menuet voor Marianne
Nietzsche Redet
Overture to Orpheus
Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno
Quartet in Two Movements
Quartet in Two Movements: I. Lento (Lento ma molto energico)
Quartet in Two Movements: II. Presto
Racconto dall'Inferno
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light
Remembering that Sarabande
Rimsky or La Monte Young
Romance voor Caecilia
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Overture
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 1
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 10
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 11
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 12
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 2
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 3
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 4
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 6
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 7
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 8
Rosa, A Horse Drama: Scene 9
Rosa, A Horse Drama: The Index Singer
Sweet
Symfonie voor losse snaren
Séries
Séries: I - II - III
Séries: IV - V - VI
Séries: VII - VIII - IX
Séries: X - XI - XII
Thanh Hoa
The Hague Hacking
The Memory of Roses
The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven
The only one: Broken morning
The only one: Grown up
The only one: Interlude 1
The only one: Interlude 2
The only one: Introduction
The only one: The early bird
Toespraak, door Martin Spanjaard
Trepidus
Trilogie van de Laatste Dag
Triplum
Triplum: I. Allegretto con fantasia
Triplum: II. Tranquillo
Triplum: III. Lento
Un beau baiser
Vergeet mij niet
Wals
Workers Union
Writing to Vermeer
Writing to Vermeer: Scene Five
Writing to Vermeer: Scene Four
Writing to Vermeer: Scene Six
Writing to Vermeer: Scene Three
XENIA
Y después
Zilver