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Egidius Kwartet
The Egidius Kwartet is a Dutch vocal ensemble specialising in the music of the Franco-Flemish school, in particular of the Habsburgs, Margaret of Austria, governor of the Netherlands and her court at Mechelen. The ensemble was formed by four members of Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Choir in 1995. The group's name is taken from Aegidius, a character in Dutch medieval literature, a minstrel lamented in the song Egidius waer bestu bleven (though the name also reflects Maître Egidius of the Chantilly Codex, as well as the Dutch name of Gilles Binchois). Their recording ''Egidius zingt Egidius'' places ''Egidius waer bestu bleven'', and two ballades by "Maître Egidius," with tribute to Egidius from modern Dutch composers; Henk Badings, Joop Voorn, Ton de Leeuw, Daan Manneke, Bart Visman, Calliope Tsoupaki, Walter Hus - and then Donald Bentvelsen, the quartet's bass voice, who also supplied ''Quatre poèmes de Ossip Zadkine Ossip Zadkine (russian: Осип Цадкин; 28 Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was a magister militum in Gaul. Aegidius, Ægidius, or Egidius may also refer to: Pre-modern era :''Chronological order'' * Saint Aegidius or Saint Giles (c. 650–c. 710), hermit saint from Athens * Aegidius Corboliensis or Gilles de Corbeil (c. 1140–first quarter of the 13th century), physician * Egidius Parisiensis (c. 1160–1223/1224), French poet * Egidius Smaragd (fl. c. 1185–1215), Hungarian noble of French origin * Aegidius of Assisi (c. 1190–1262), one of the original companions of saint Francis of Assisi * Egidius Monoszló (c. 1240–1313), Hungarian baron * Aegidius de Lessinia (died c. 1304), scholastic philosopher, pupil of Thomas Aquinas * Aegidius Romanus or Giles of Rome (c. 1243–1316), archbishop of Bourges and philosopher * Egidius de Francia or Egidius de Murino (), sometimes Magister Frater Egidius, French composer and music theorist in Italy * Egidius (Chantilly Codex composer) (c. 1350–1400), sometimes Magister Egidiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joop Voorn
Joop Voorn ( 16 October 1932, in The Hague – 11 July 2021, in Tilburg) was a Dutch composer. Biography Joop Voorn sang in the parish boys' choir "Ex ore infantium": Gregorian chant, Perosi, but also Palestrina, Bruckner and Jan Mul. He took piano lessons and studied piano, organ and harmony from 1946 to 1951 with Jean Claessens in Weert. From 1952 to 1966 he studied philosophy and theology, including in Rome, where he also took counterpoint lessons with Edgardo Carducci at the Istituto Pontificio di Musica Sacra. He also worked as a lecturer in theology. In 1966 he did a master's degree in dogmatic theology in Nijmegen with Edward Schillebeeckx, cum laude, with a thesis on "Law and Gospel" in Helmut Thielicke's Theological Ethik I. From 1966 he studied at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg: composition and theory with Jan van Dijk, and piano with Polo de Haas. In 1969 he obtained a diploma in the theory of music. His thesis dealt with the twelve-tone structure of Stravins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossip Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine (russian: Осип Цадкин; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Belarusian-born French artist. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. Early years and education Zadkine was born on 28 January 1888 as Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin (russian: Иосель Аронович Цадкин) in the city of Vitsebsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus). He was born to a baptized Jewish father and a mother named Zippa-Dvoyra, who he claimed to be of Scottish origin. Archival materials state that Iosel-Shmuila Aronovich Tsadkin was of Jewish faith and studied in the Vitebsk City Technical School between 1900 and 1904, including two years in one class with would-be artists Marc Chagall (then Movsha Shagal) and Victor Mekler (then Avigdor Mekler). Archival materials contradict Zadkine himself and states that his father did not convert to the Russian Orthodox religion and his mother was not of a Scottish extraction. He had 5 siblings: sisters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Hus
Walter Hus (born 2 July 1959) is a Belgian composer and musician. He studied at the music conservatories in Ghent and Brussels. In 1984, he graduated with excellence (''Diplôme supérieur'') for piano with Prof. Dr. Robert Steyaert and soon became involved with new music in many different expressions. He performed improvised piano recitals (1984: LP ''Eight Etudes on Improvisation''); occasionally flirted with free jazz (Belgisch Pianokwartet) and rock (Simpletones); collaborated with painters (Michel Thuns) and video artists (Walter Verdin, Marie André). He wrote film scores for ''Suite Sixteen'' (Dominique Deruddere) and ''The Pillow Book'' (Peter Greenaway); toured the world with his ensemble Maximalist! and wrote and performed for theatre and ballet (amongst others Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, Roxanne Huilmand, Needcompany, Bud Blumenthal, Discordia, Beukelaars, Kortekaas, Ritsema). From the nineties on, he appeared less on stage and concentrated on comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calliope Tsoupaki
Calliope Tsoupaki ( gr, Καλλιόπη Τσουπάκη; born 27 May 1963) is a Greek pianist and composer. Biography Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in Athens and composition with Yannis Ioannidis. She continued her studies with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and graduated in 1992. After ending her studies, Tsoupaki settled in Amsterdam and began a career as a pianist and composer. Her works have been performed in Europe and in the United States and at international music festivals. In 1993 she lived and worked in Budapest on a three-month residency from the Pepinières Foundation for young artists. In 2007 she took a position teaching composition at Koninklijk Conservatorium. Since 2018 Calliope Tsoupaki is the composer laureate of the Netherlands. Works Selected works include: *''Enigma'' for viola solo (1999) *''Medea'' (Μήδεια) for viola and 3 female voices (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bart Visman
Bart Visman (born 21 October 1962 in Naarden) is a Dutch composer. He is well known in the Netherlands for composing the children's opera ''De roep van de kinkhoorn'' to a libretto by the late Dutch children's author Paul Biegel Paulus Johannes "Paul" Biegel (; 25 March 1925 – 21 October 2006) was a successful and prolific Dutch writer of children's literature. Biography Paul Biegel was born in Bussum in 1925. His father, Hermann Biegel, was of German descent, and ow ....Vrij Nederland 2004 "De muziek werd gemaakt door Bart Visman die stelt dat 'een opera voor kinderen niet kinderachtig moet zijn, maar volwassen, met alles erop en eraan, een beetje deftig'." References External links Official website People from Naarden 1962 births Dutch composers Living people {{Netherlands-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daan Manneke
Daan Manneke (born 7 November 1939) is a Dutch composer and organist. Manneke was born in Kruiningen. He studied organ and composition from 1963 to 1967 at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, under H. Houët and Louis Toebosch (organ) and Jan van Dijk (composition) then studied organ with Belgian organist Kamiel d’Hooghe in Brussels, followed by composition with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam. In 1976 he was awarded The Composition Prize at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory, where he now teaches composition and analysis of 20th-century music. He was conductor of Cappella Breda, and has made numerous recordings with them (Dufay, Willaert, Bruckner, Strawinsky, Pärt, Ton de Leeuw, Manneke). Works He has written over 90 works in various styles, and is particularly known for his organ and choral music. Selected recordings *works on ''Invisible Cities'' Quink Vocal Ensemble Quink is a Dutch vocal ensemble founded in 1978. The five singer line-up c. 1996 included Machteld Van Woerd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ton De Leeuw
Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality. Life and career Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth influenced by Béla Bartók, De Leeuw was a teacher at the University of Amsterdam and later professor of composition and electronic music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam from 1959 to 1986, at which institute he served as director from 1971–73. For his notable students, "When I was quite young I once accidentally tuned in on a radio broadcast from an Arabian station. I was thunderstruck: I became deeply aware that there were other people living on this earth, living in thoroughly different conditions, having other thoughts and feelings" (Ton de Leeuw, 1978). He studied ethnomusicology with Jaap Kunst between 1950 and 1954 and the encounter with the Dagar brothers and Drupad on his first visit to India in 1961 deepened a life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Badings
Henk Badings (hĕngk bä'dĭngz) (17 January 190726 June 1987) was an Indo-Dutch composer. Early life Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Hendrik Herman Badings became an orphan at an early age. Having returned to the Netherlands, his family tried to dissuade him from studying music, and he enrolled at the Delft Polytechnical Institute (later the Technical University). He worked as a mining engineer and palaeontologist at Delft until 1937, after which he dedicated his life entirely to music. Though largely self-taught, he did receive some advice from Willem Pijper, the doyen of Dutch composers at the time, but their musical views differed widely and after Pijper had attempted to discourage Badings from continuing as a composer, Badings broke off contact. Music career In 1930 Badings had his initial big musical success when his first cello concerto (he eventually wrote a second) was performed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco-Flemish School
The designation Franco-Flemish School, also called Netherlandish School, Burgundian School, Low Countries School, Flemish School, Dutch School, or Northern School, refers, somewhat imprecisely, to the style of polyphonic vocal music composition originating from France and from the Burgundian Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as to the composers who wrote it. The spread of their technique, especially after the revolutionary development of printing, produced the first true international style since the unification of Gregorian chant in the 9th century. Franco-Flemish composers mainly wrote sacred music, primarily masses, motets, and hymns. Term and controversy Several generations of Renaissance composers from the region loosely known as the Low Countries (Imperial and French fiefs ruled in personal union by the House of Valois-Burgundy in the period from 1384 to 1482)—i.e. present-day Northern France, Belgium and the Southern Netherlands—are grouped under "Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Binchois
Gilles de Bins dit Binchois (also Binchoys; – 20 September 1460) was a Franco-Flemish composer of early Renaissance music. A central figure of the Burgundian School, Binchois and his colleague Guillaume Du Fay were deeply influenced by the ''contenance angloise'' style of John Dunstaple. His efforts in consolidating a 'Burgundian tradition' would be important for the formation of the Franco-Flemish School. One of the three most famous composers of the early 15th century, Binchois is often ranked behind Du Fay and Dunstable by contemporary scholars, but his works were still widely cited, emulated and used as source material after his death. Described by the musicologist Anthony Pryer as a "supreme miniaturist", he generally avoided large scale works, and is most admired for his shorter secular chansons. Despite this, it is thought that considerably more of his sacred music survives than secular music, creating a 'paradoxical image' of the composer. Reflecting on his style, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maître Egidius
Egidius, sometimes Magister Egidius, (c. 1350-1400?) is an '' ars subtilior'' composer found in the ''Chantilly Codex'' and the '' Modena Codex.'' Works attributed to "Egidius" in the ''Chantilly Codex'' comprise the ballades ''Roses et lis'' and ''Courtois et sage,'' dedicated to Pope Clement VII in Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So .... He is potentially identifiable with Egidius de Murino, a composer and music theorist active at the same time.Garber, Benjamin"Egidius de Murino" from Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. William Kibler, ed. Garland 1995. p.316. Egidius de Aurelia (Egidius of Orleans), composer of "Alma Polis" and "Axe poli cum artica" is thought to be a different composer. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Egidius, Magister Ars subtilior composers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
