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

Symphony : Golden dragon, for orchestra, 2001 / Edward Top

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3333 4431 timp 3perc hp pf(cel) str(14.12.10.8.6.)

Ohne Sonne : = (Bez solnca), für Ensemble und Stimme, 1874/1994 / [Instrumentation:] Geert van Keulen, Gedichte von A.A. Golenishtchev-Kutusov, Modest Musorgskij

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: voice fl(fl-a) ob eh cl cl(cl-b) fg cfg 2h vc cb

Far away in the ocean : for twelve violoncellos and soprano / Reza Namavar ; text: Toon Tellegen, 2010

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: sopr 12vc

To you : for voice, guitars, keyboardinstruments, tops and electronics, opus 22, (1970-'72) / words: Adrian Mitchell, Peter Schat

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble; Elektronica en zangstem(men) met of zonder instrument(en)
Bezetting: sopr-m 4pf 2el.org 6g 3g-b 6tops electronics

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