componist
Maarten Hans van Norden was born on November 1, 1955, in Amsterdam.
Education: After a year of studying mathematics, Van Norden chose music instead. At the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, ...
gerelateerde werken
Battle of the saxes : for saxophone quartet and woodwind ensemble, 1990 / Maarten van Norden
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Blazersensemble (9 en meer spelers)
Bezetting:
1221 2221 4sax g-b pf perc
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
sopr fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc hp str
Drie liederen : met orkestbegeleiding / door Willem Andriessen
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
sopr-m 2222 4200 timp str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
high 2232 4000 timp hp str(vl vla vc)
compositie
La bonne chanson : for voice and orchestra, 2001 / text: Paul Verlaine, Maarten van Norden
Overige auteurs:
Verlaine, Paul
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Toelichting:
Program note (English): La bonne chanson is written for the opening of the Dutch Music Days 2001 and was first performed on December 13 by the Metropole Orchestra conducted by Jan Stulen with mezzo-soprano Monique Scholte. The structure is A-B-A-B-A. The A sections use three poems by Paul Verlaine: 1. Le piano qui baisse une main frêle (1874, from the collection Romance sans paroles) - 2. Le bon disciple (1872, written for Verlaine's lover Arthur Rimbaud) - 3. La bonne chanson (1871). The romantic idiom of the poems is reflected in the music of the A sections. This is balanced by the more abstract instrumental B sections in which serial harmonies are developed through the use of set-theory, against a tight rhythmical background that sometimes reveals my roots in the jazz-rock idiom. - MAARTEN VAN NORDEN