componist

Top, Edward

Dutch Canadian composer Edward Top studied composition and violin at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in The Netherlands. Primarily studying with Peter-Jan Wagemans he has also worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, ...

gerelateerde werken

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: fl ob cl cl-b fg h perc hp str

Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau : per mezzo soprano e complesso da camera, (1965) / poesia di Jacques Prévert, Ton de Kruyf

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: sopr-m 1111 1010 perc vibr(xyl) hp pf vc cb

Kafka Sketchbook : for fortepiano, bariton, ensemble of period instruments and live electronics / Martijn Padding, 2004

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: bar 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h trp trb perc fortepf cb electronics

Não estou pensando em nada : for alto and ensemble / Jan van de Putte; lyrics by Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa)

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: alt fl-a fl-b ob(eh) cl-b cl-cb fg-c 2h trp trb tb 3perc cymb acc pf hp str

compositie

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Overige auteurs:
Michaelis, Hanny (tekstdichter/librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus (tekstdichter/librettist)
Top, Edward (tekstdichter/librettist)
Toelichting:
In Family Songs it was my objective to move towards simplicity and away from my usually complex and maximalist style. The texts, in both Dutch – my mother tongue - and English, are all chosen and written to express the honesty of life, memory and expectations of parent- and childhood. As such, upon reading, they almost dictated the music in an intuitive and folk-music-like way.

Edward Top, 2013