Louis Joseph Andriessen was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher.
19 Facts About Louis Andriessen
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Louis Andriessen taught at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1974 to 2012, influencing notable composers.
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Louis Andriessen was born in Utrecht on 6 June 1939 to a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Louis Andriessen and Johanna Justina Anschutz.
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Louis Andriessen's father was professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and later its director.
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Louis Andriessen's siblings are composers Jurriaan Andriessen and Caecilia Andriessen, and he is the nephew of Willem Andriessen.
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Louis Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, graduating in 1961 with a first prize, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.
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Louis Andriessen's father introduced him to the works of Francis Poulenc and Eric Satie which he came to love.
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Louis Andriessen was internationally recognised as a composer with his 1976 De Staat which included texts from Plato's Republic.
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Louis Andriessen was one of the founders of the Hague School, an avant-garde and minimalist movement from the second half of the 20th century.
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Louis Andriessen was the focus of festivals in Tanglewood, London, Tokyo, Brisbane and New York.
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In 1969, Louis Andriessen co-founded Studio voor Elektro-Instrumentale Muziek STEIM in Amsterdam.
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Louis Andriessen later became closely involved with the Schonberg and Asko ensembles and inspired the formation of the British ensemble Icebreaker.
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Louis Andriessen joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatory in 1974.
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Louis Andriessen taught instrumentation from 1974 to 1978 and taught composition there from 1978 to 2012, where he influenced notable students including Michel van der Aa, Richard Ayres and Steve Martland.
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Louis Andriessen was married in 2012 a second time to violinist Monica Germino, for whom he wrote several works.
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Louis Andriessen died on 1 July 2021 in Weesp at age 82.
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Louis Andriessen began in the style of an intentionally dry neoclassicism, but then turned into a strict serialist.
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Louis Andriessen repeatedly used his music for political confessions and messages, but he referred to painting and philosophy.
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Louis Andriessen's later style is a unique blend of American sounds and European forms.