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Louis Andriessen
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Louis Andriessen came from a family of composers in Utrecht and for years taught at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He rejected the symphony orchestra as a bourgeois institution and wrote for ensembles of his own with winds, electric guitars and pianos, which play loudly and without vibrato. In De Staat from 1976 four women's voices sing texts by Plato about the dangerous power of music. In this way he laid the foundation for what came to be called the Hague School.
Listening
Listening tip. Listen to the beginning of De Staat and hear how oboes and hard chords play in a tight, repeating rhythm, without string vibrato or soft transitions.
De Staat (Schönberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw) · Louis Andriessen, 1976
Workers Union (Orkest de Volharding) · Louis Andriessen, 1975
Hoketus (Hoketus) · Louis Andriessen, 1977
Discography
Studio albums
- 1977De Staat / Il Principe / Il Duce / Hoketus
- 1980Louis Andriessen: Hoketus / Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together
- 1992De Staat
- 1992Mausoleum / Hoketus
- 1992Melodie / Symfonie voor losse snaren
- 1993De Tijd
- 1993The Memory of Roses
- 1994De Stijl / M is for Man, Music, Mozart
- 1994De Stijl / Trepidus / Dances
- 1996De Materie
- 1997Zilver
- 2000Rosa: The Death of a Composer
- 2002BBC Music, Volume 11, Number 2: Short Ride in a Fast Machine / The Chairman Dances / Harmonium / De Snelheid
- 2002The Art of Han de Vries
- 2003Gigantic Dancing Human Machine: Bang on a Can Plays Louis Andriessen
- 2005De Tijd
- 2006Writing to Vermeer
- 2008De Staat
- 2009Garden of Eros
- 2009La Passione / Bells for Haarlem / Letter From Cathy / Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno
- 2011Anaïs Nin / De staat
- 2014La Commedia
- 2016The Minimalists
- 2020The only one
- 2024Tales of song and sadness