After challenging the Dutch musical establishment as a young man, he went on to write a series of large and loud symphonic works that grappled with big ideas. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim David ...

“Musically, I don’t care much [anymore] about what you may do and may not do,” says the composer Louis Andriessen. “I feel more — not vulgar, because everyone is already vulgar, but I feel free.” ...

A conundrum for every conscientious 20th- and 21st-century composer has been how music relates to politics: what's the possible relationship between the music you write and what you think about the ...

Louis Andriessen, perhaps the leading Dutch composer since the death of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in the 17th century and an embodiment of the international avant-garde since the 1960s, died July 1 in ...

Louis Andriessen, the most widely acclaimed Dutch composer of his generation, died on Thursday, July 1, in a care home in Weesp, North Holland. His death was confirmed by Boosey & Hawkes, his ...

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Nonesuch Records releases Louis Andriessen's The only one on March 5, 2021. This world premiere performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was commissioned by the LA Phil with generous support from ...

Louis Andriessen – perhaps the leading Dutch composer since the death of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in the 17th century and an embodiment of the international avant-garde since the 1960s – has died ...

Louis Andriessen is the great argumentative opera composer of our day. He argues with every convention of the lyric stage. He is, moreover, a master of operatic argument, which is the traditional term ...

The composer and teacher Louis Andriessen, who has died aged 82, was widely acknowledged as the most important creative force to emerge from the Netherlands in the second half of the 20th century.

"In the early 50s, [there was] no way that you could write tonal music – totally forbidden," Andriessen explained in a 2017 interview conducted for Leiden University. "You had to write like Schoenberg ...