Ton de Leeuw

Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw ( born November 16, 1926 in Rotterdam, † 31 May 1996, Paris) was a Dutch composer and music educator.

Life

De Leeuw had from 1947 to 1949 studied composition with Louis Toebosch and Henk Bading, after which he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and Thomas de Hartmann in Paris until 1954 and ethnomusicology with Jaap Art at the University of Amsterdam.

From 1954 to 1959 he was musical director of the Nederlands Radio Union. In this time electro-acoustic compositions such as Study. From 1959 to 1986, professor of composition and electro-acoustic music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, which he also occasionally served as director. In addition, he taught 1962-1982 at the University of Amsterdam. Among his pupils were, inter alia Gheorghi Arnaoudov, Guus Janssen, Mikhail Goleminov, Paul Termos, Walter Hekster, Liza Lim, Brian Ferneyhough, Tristan Keuris, Chiel Meijering, Daan Manneke, Antoine flexors, Bernard van Beurden and Otto Sidhartha.

After studying in India, Japan and Indonesia in the 1960s, de Leeuw sat for the fusion of Asian and Western music to a new "world music " a. In 1981 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The last ten years of his life he spent in Paris.

In 1964 Muziek van de twintigste eeuw, which is considered the standard work on the contemporary music and has been repeatedly reprinted. It appeared in German translation in 1995 as The language of music in the 20th century and 2005 in English under the title Music of the Twentieth Century: A Study of its Elements and Structure.

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Works

  • Treurmuziek in memoriam Pijper, 1948
  • Study, electro- acoustic work, 1957
  • Movements rétrogrades, 1960 (UA 1960, Concertgebouw Orchestra under George Szell )
  • Men go their ways for solo piano, 1964 ( UA 1964, Ivo Janssen )
  • Spatial Music I, 1958-66 (UA Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra under Paul Huppert )
  • Mon-Thurs for Harpsichord, 1974 ( UA Vivienne Spiteri )
  • Car nos Vignes sont en fleur, 1981
  • Interlude for guitar, 1984 ( UA Wim Hoogewerf )
  • Chimères, 1984
  • Résonances, 1985
  • Trio, 1990
  • Danses sacrées, Piano Concert, 1990
  • Antigone, opera, 1990-1991
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