Jakob van Domselaer (15 April 1890 in

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– 5 January 1960) was a Dutch composer. Domselaer was born at

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. In 1912, he traveled to Paris where he met the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), eventually becoming a part of Mondrian's artistic circle known as "

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." Domselaer's piano suite ''Proeven van Stijlkunst'' (Experiments in Artistic Style, 1913–17) represented the first attempt to apply principles of Neo-Plasticism to music, and Mondrian asserted that pieces were created under the influence of the plus-minus painting he created around the year 1915 . This austere, mathematically based music represents an important but as yet unacknowledged precedent to minimalism and has been little performed or recorded. He died at

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. Domselaer's students have included the Dutch composers Nico Schuyt and Simeon ten Holt . At the Berlage Concourse in 1988, the Dutch pianist Kees Wieringa was one of the prize winners, playing piano music by Domselaer. He released a recording featuring the music of Domselaer in 1994 (DO Records CD, DR 001). He married Maaike Middelkoop, with whom he had three children. His son, Jaap van Domselaer (1923–1944), was a promising young poet when he was shot while trying to escape from

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to the liberated zone in 1944 . His daughter, Matie van Domselaer, married the

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on 13 July 1942 and

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in 1950 .

Recordings

Recording by Kees Wieringa

Recording on the Donemus Foundation's Composer's Voice label

References

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External links

Jakob van Domselaer Archive
and biography at the Netherlands Music Institute 1890 births 1960 deaths People from Nijkerk 20th-century classical composers Dutch male classical composers Dutch classical composers De Stijl 20th-century Dutch male musicians {{Netherlands-composer-stub