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 ...

"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 ...

The dramatic as well as musical talents of these women clearly motivated Andriessen’s shockingly fanciful scores, which received riveting U.S. premieres Tuesday at a Green Umbrella concert by ...

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Louis Andriessen, who as a young iconoclast disrupted the Dutch classical music scene before becoming one of Europe’s most important postwar composers with a ...

“Musically, I don’t care much [anymore] about what you may do and may not do,” says the composer Louis Andriessen. “I feel more — not vulgar, because everyone is already vulgar, but I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Throughout his life Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has confounded easy classification. His works refuse to ...

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 ...