KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Matthijs Vermeulen, 2 of 2
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1974.11.04.BProgram Series
Morning ConcertProgram Length
133 minPart
2 of 2Dates
1974-11-04 | broadcast| 402 | created
Description
Han Reiziger, the Music Director of VPRO, presents a program of music by Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen. Born in 1888 to a blacksmith, Vermeulen originally planned to be a priest but turned to music after being exposed to the theories of counterpoint while attending a seminary. He later moved to Amsterdam where he studied music first with Daniël de Lange, and later with Alphons Diepenbroc, whose daughter he would eventually take to be his second wife. A talented writer Vermeulen supported himself throughout his life by working for a number for newspapers as both a critic and editor covering a wide variety of subjects musical, cultural and political. Vermeulen’s music tended to be rather atonal and in 1918 he got involved in a dispute with the more traditionally minded chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg, resulting in his moving to France in the hopes of finding a more receptive audience for his works. He returned to the Netherlands after World War II and with the performance of a number of his symphonies eventually gained recognition as own of the country’s best modern composers.Genres
20th century classicalMusical Selections
Symphony No. 2: Prelude a La Nouvelle Journee (1919-20) (21:50) / -- Cello Sonata (1918) (22:00) -- Symphony No. 7 (1963-65) (16:58)Performers
Hague Residentie Orchestra (Symphony No. 2)Hiroyuki Iwaki, conductor (Symphony No. 2)
Anner Bijlsma, cello (Cello)
Reinbert de Leeuw, piano (Cello)
Concertgebouw Orchestra (Symphony No. 7)
Bernard Haitink, conductor (Symphony No. 7)
Subjects
Orchestral musicSonatas (Cello)
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Hague Residentie OrchestraResidentie-Orkest (Hague, Netherlands)
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Concertgebouworkest
VPRO
Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep
Reiziger, Han
Vermeulen, Matthijs, 1888-1967
Iwaki, Hiroyuki
Bylsma, Anner
Bijlsma, Anner
Leeuw, Reinbert de, 1938-
Haitink, Bernard, 1929-