#Willem Pijper

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947): Six Adagios, per orchestra (1940).

I. Grave II. Adagio (Lento assai) III. Adagio (Quasi un poco meno lento) IV. Adagio (Un poco più andante) V. Largo VI. Grave

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra diretta da Roelof van Driesten.

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Corrie Hartong (1906-1991), grondlegger van de eerste dansvakopleiding

Corrie Hartong vertrok na haar eindexamen in 1924 naar Wenen en Dresden om een dansopleiding te volgen. Na haar dansopleiding in Dresden te hebben afgerond, ging zij zelf lesgeven aan de Volksbühne in Chemnitz (Duitsland). In 1931 keerde Hartong terug naar Rotterdam. Door haar opleiding in Dresden werd zij de eerste vertegenwoordigster van de ‘Ausdruchtanz’ (een op het gevoel gerichte moderne dans) in Nederland.

Corrie Hartong werd gevraagd om de eerste dansvakopleiding in Nederland op te zetten samen met Gertrud Leistikov. Na drie jaar trok Leistikov zich terug, waarna Hartong de enige directeur werd. In 1935 werd de Rotterdamse dansschool verbonden aan het Rotterdamsch Toonkunst Conservatorium. Met de directeur van dit conservatorium, Willem Pijper, kreeg Hartong een lange tijd geheim gebleven liefdesrelatie.

Corrie Hartong overleed op 9 augustus 1991 in Rotterdam.

Bron: Stadsarchief Rotterdam

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Through the Years → Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1,398/∞) 29 November 2023 | King Willem-Alexander is present at the annual Corps concert of the Marine Band of the Royal Navy and Drummers and Pijpers of the Marine Corps. This year the concert focuses on 50 years of the United Kingdom/Netherlands Amphibious Force (UK/NL AF). (Photo by Ministerie van Defensie/Koninklijkhuis)

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Entre le bœf et l’âne gris Arranger: Willem Pijper Seth Gilman, baritone; Christopher Berg, piano Recorded 2021

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March 18 in Music History

1657 Birth of composer Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni.

1734 Birth of composer Joseph Schmitt.

1756 Birth of composer Johann Christoph Vogel.

1781 Birth of composer Gustave Vogt.

1814 Birth of soprano Caroline Grünbaum in Prague. 

1818 Birth of soprano Maria Nau in New York.  

1831 Birth of tenor Jose Dupuis in Liege.  

1844 Birth of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in Tikhvin. 

1850 Birth of baritone Josef Staudigl in Vienna. 

1866 Birth of composer Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu.

1870 Birth of composer Frank Hoyt Losey.

1876 Birth of mezzo-soprano Liva Järnefelt in Vanersborg.

1881 Birth of French composer and music critic Paul le Flem in Paris. 

1882 Birth of Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero in Venice.   1884 Birth of Dutch-American violinist, composer, and conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten. 

1884 Death of soprano Anne Bishop. 

1886 Birth of German tenor Rudolf Laubenthal.

1888 Birth of tenor Louis Graveure in London. 

1898 Birth of composer Otto Jochum.

1889 Birth of Russian-American pianist Alexander Borovsky in Latvia. 

1898 Birth of soprano Ofelia Nieto in Santiago di Compostela.  

1901 Birth of composer Piotr Perkowski.

1902 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht for string sextet in Vienna.

1904 FP of Anatole Liadov's symphonic poem Baba Yaga in St. Petersburg. 

1905 Birth of American pianist John Kirkpatrick in NYC. 

1909 Birth of composer Ljubica Maric.

1914 Birth of composer Cesar Guerra Peixe. 

1916 Birth of composer Louis Toebosch.

1923 FP of Anton Bruckner's Study Symphony in F minor in Klosternenberg, Germany.

1925  Birth of baritone Jean-Christoph Benoit in Strasbourg.

1929 Birth of bass John Macurdy in Detroit, Mich.

1929 Birth of soprano Lotte Rysanek. 

1929 Birth of composer Ctirad Kohoutek.

1930 Birth of American conductor Maurice Peress in NYC.

1937 Death of French composer Mélanie Bonis. 

1940 Death of soprano Lola Beeth. 

1943 Birth of Japanese violist Nobuko Imai. 1944 Birth of English Opera administrator Nicholas Snowman.  1947 Death of Dutch composer Willem Pijper. b-8 SEP 1894.

1949 FP of Peter Mennin's Symphony No. 4 The Cycle in NYC.

1950 Birth of American conductor James Conlon. 1950 Birth of German bass Jan-Hendrik Rootering.

1956 Birth of Argentinian composer Eduardo Alonso-Crespo.

1957 Birth of Bulgarian composer Gheorghi Arnaoudov in Sofia, Bulgaria.

1961 Birth of Polish composer Hanna Kulenty in Biaystok, Poland.

1961 Death of soprano Mizzi Gunther.

1966 Birth of American composer Stephen Lias.

1966 Birth of American composer Donald Reid Womack.

1967 Death of mezzo-soprano Hedy Gura. 

1970 Death of tenor Giordano Paltrinieri. 

1970 FP of Roger Sessions' Rhapsody for orchestra, in Baltimore.

1972 Death of baritone Gunther Ambrosius.

1980 Death of American soprano Jessica Dragonette

1994 Death of American composer William Bergsma at age 72, in Seattle.

2001 FP of H. Birtwistle´s Tango for Betty dedicated music patron, Betty Freeman. Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting.

2002 Death of tenor Gosta Winbergh.

2004 FP of Augusta Read Thomas´ Tangle. Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Robertson, in Chicago, IL.

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Sinfonía número 1, “Pan”, de Willem Pijper (1917). Versión de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Rotterdam, conducida por el maestro Richard Dufallo.

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Sinfonía número 1, "Pan", de Willem Pijper (1917). Versión de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Rotterdam, conducida por el maestro Richard Dufallo.

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947) : Symphony No.2 -

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

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Corrie Hartong (1906-1991), grondlegger van de eerste dansvakopleiding @stadsarchief010

Corrie Hartong vertrok na haar eindexamen in 1924 naar Wenen en Dresden om een dansopleiding te volgen. Na haar dansopleiding in Dresden te hebben afgerond, ging zij zelf lesgeven aan de Volksbühne in Chemnitz (Duitsland). In 1931 keerde Hartong terug naar Rotterdam. Door haar opleiding in Dresden werd zij de eerste vertegenwoordigster van de ‘Ausdruchtanz’ (een op het gevoel gerichte moderne dans) in Nederland.

Corrie Hartong werd gevraagd om de eerste dansvakopleiding in Nederland op te zetten samen met Gertrud Leistikov. Na drie jaar trok Leistikov zich terug, waarna Hartong de enige directeur werd. In 1935 werd de Rotterdamse dansschool verbonden aan het Rotterdamsch Toonkunst Conservatorium. Met de directeur van dit conservatorium, Willem Pijper, kreeg Hartong een lange tijd geheim gebleven liefdesrelatie.

Corrie Hartong overleed op 9 augustus 1991 in Rotterdam.

Bron: Stadsarchief Rotterdam

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947): Sinfonia No.2 (1921). I. Allegro maestoso II. Lento - Grazioso - Finale: Più mosso, maestoso. Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra dir...

Listening to... Quite a difference from his first symphony.

Pijper quickly chose his own path as a composer. The difference in style between his First Symphony (Pan; 1917) (in which Mahler's influence is evident) and the Second (1921) is significant, and between 1918 and 1922 he grew into one of the more advanced composers in Europe. In each successive work he went a step further, starting from his conception that every work of art arises out of a number of "germ cells" (somewhat akin to Igor Stravinsky's early "cell technique").

From 1919, Pijper's music can be described as polytonal. Yet there is no question of Pijper's consciously abandoning tonality; rather his polyphonic way of thinking and his sense of counterpoint made his harmonic style evolve in that direction. In that sense, he stands quite close to the music of his contemporary Matthijs Vermeulen, but his music does not quite reach the extatic level of Vermeulen's. Nonetheless, Pijper remained a composer of strong emotional character, to which his Third Symphony (1926) bears witness. In Pijper's later works the harmonic expression seems at times to approach monotonality.

The octatonic scale has been called the "Pijper scale" in Dutch. As a teacher, Pijper had a great influence on modern Dutch music, teaching many prominent Dutch composers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He was senior teacher of instrumentation at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, and from 1930 until his death in 1947 he acted as principal of the Rotterdam Conservatoire.

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947) - String Quartet nr. 3

I. Lento - Andantino Grazioso - Scherzando 0:02 II. Larghetto espressivo 3:51 III. Tempo I: Molto tranquillo; Piu Leggiero - Tempo II: Poco mosso 8:36

Alban Kwartet:

Anne-Catherine Feltgen, violin

Isaac Pérez Riera, violin

Rodrigo de Freitas, viola

Glòria Expósito Pérez, cello

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947) - Concerto : per violino e orchestra (1938-1939)

1. Poco lento, allegretto grazioso - 00:00 2. Adagio - 05:41 3. Molto allegro - 10:22

Theo Olof, violin

Orchestra: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Conductor: Bernard Haitink

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Willem Pijper - Symphony No.1 "Pan" (1917)

Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Richard Dufallo

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947) - Kwartet Nr. 1 : voor strijkkwartet (1914)

1. Allegro moderato - 00:00 2. Scherzo (comodo) - 04:59 3. Largo - 09:25 4. Poco agitato - 18:20

Schoenberg Quartet

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947)