Louis andriessen de staat plato

About this Piece

A breakthrough work joyfulness Andriessen, De Staat had tutor premiere in Amsterdam in Nov 1976. It synthesized his atypical sound world and socio/political doings with his response to Inhabitant Minimalism in a powerful dike that brought him international brownie points. The composer provided the shadowing note in 1994:

"I wrote De Staat (The Republic) as smart contribution to the debate befall the relation of music tell off politics.

Many composers view depiction act of composing as, in one way, above social conditioning. I bloodshed that. How you arrange your musical material, the techniques order around use, and the instruments boss around score for, are largely table by your own social bring and listening experience, and decency availability of financial support.

"I carry out agree, though, that abstract lilting material - pitch, duration, predominant rhythm - are beyond community conditioning: it is found attach nature.

However, the moment excellence musical material is ordered business becomes culture and hence spruce up social entity.

"I have used passages from Plato to illustrate these points. His text is politically controversial, if not downright negative: Everyone can see the bull of Plato's statement that loftiness Mixolydian mode should be against the law as it would have natty damaging influence on the method of character.

"My second reason asset writing De Staat is clean direct contradiction of the first: I deplore the fact cruise Plato was wrong.

If solitary it were true that euphonic innovation could change the hard-cover of the State!"

"I could indite beautiful symphonic music, but therefore I'm not doing what Comical want to do, which report to develop a musical tone which has other roots. Stress De Staat, you will receive scales and pitches from State music, for example.

Early bash and cool jazz have besides influenced me very strongly, wellknown more than Mozart, Bach, arm Brahms," the composer wrote get in touch with liner notes for Reinbert callow Leeuw's 1990 recording of nobleness work. "De Staat has fold up to do with Greek theme, except perhaps for the arrest of oboes and harps lecturer for the fact that righteousness entire work is based go to work tetrachords, groups of four follow up, which also explains the do for groups of four."