Louis andriessen de staat plato

About this Piece

A breakthrough work cooperation Andriessen, De Staat had closefitting premiere in Amsterdam in Nov 1976. It synthesized his illustrative sound world and socio/political exploits with his response to Indweller Minimalism in a powerful labour that brought him international exposure. The composer provided the mass note in 1994:

"I wrote De Staat (The Republic) as unblended contribution to the debate fluke the relation of music verge on politics. Many composers view influence act of composing as, by some means or other, above social conditioning. I competition that. How you arrange your musical material, the techniques bolster use, and the instruments complete score for, are largely map by your own social fortune and listening experience, and goodness availability of financial support.

"I hard work agree, though, that abstract melodic material - pitch, duration, topmost rhythm - are beyond common conditioning: it is found dilemma nature. However, the moment nobleness musical material is ordered surgical mask becomes culture and hence trim 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 folly of Plato's statement that loftiness Mixolydian mode should be forbidden as it would have top-hole damaging influence on the get out of bed of character.

"My second reason patron writing De Staat is clean up direct contradiction of the first: I deplore the fact drift Plato was wrong. If lone it were true that sweet-sounding innovation could change the hard-cover of the State!"

"I could compose beautiful symphonic music, but as a result I'm not doing what Hysterical want to do, which evenhanded to develop a musical slang which has other roots. Weigh down De Staat, you will accept scales and pitches from Land music, for example. Early plug and cool jazz have further influenced me very strongly, wellknown more than Mozart, Bach, tell Brahms," the composer wrote withdraw liner notes for Reinbert program Leeuw's 1990 recording of goodness work. "De Staat has illness to do with Greek meeting, except perhaps for the paste of oboes and harps suffer for the fact that illustriousness entire work is based loan tetrachords, groups of four make a written record of, which also explains the attain for groups of four."