"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 ...

The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has died, aged 82. In tribute, we republish this profile of his life and musical voice from our Contemporary Composer series, written by Andy Hamilton in 2017. ‘I ...

Als fractieleider van de KVP steunde hij het linkse kabinet-Den Uyl, maar hij stond er ook kritisch tegenover. Mede omdat Den Uyl Andriessen niet in zijn tweede kabinet wilde, ging het CDA in 1977 met ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Friday night, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the world premiere of Louis ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Allan Kozinn “La Commedia,” Louis Andriessen’s operatic dissection and reconstruction of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” is the centerpiece ...

The only predictable attribute of Other Minds, the annual new-music festival that has its 16th season this weekend, is that it will be unpredictable. True to the eclectic principles of artistic ...

There are no limits to where Louis Andriessen’s imagination will take him. His latest stage work, entitled Theatre of the World, could give Phileas Fogg a run for his money with the speed it traverses ...

The multi-media opera La Comedia has earned Dutch composer Louis Andriessen the 2011 Grawemeyer Award, one of the most lucrative music awards. The $100,000 cash award, awarded each year by the ...