componist
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, ...
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Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
fl ob cl cl-b fg h perc hp str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
sopr 1111 1110 pf vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
sopr-m fl/fl-a ob/eh 2cl/2cl-b fg/cfg cymb cemb pf hp acc harm 2vl vla vc db
Keats II : for high voice and chamber orchestra, 1997 / on words by John Keats, Maarten Altena
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
high 2222 2220 2perc pf 4vl 2vla 2cb
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