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Comment: This is a very critical opinion about this submission. Please look for instance at the Wiki pages about other Dutch composers; i.e.Hendrik Andriessen,Louis Andriessen (just two references mentioned!!), Henk Badings, Kees van Baaren, Patrick van Deurzen (not a single reference mentioned!!), Douwe Eisenga, Klaas de Vries; And these are just a few Wiki-pages of the Dutch composers mentioned at Wikipedia which lacks references. At some pages of the list of Dutch composers, no reference is mentioned at all. [User:Fodya]
- Comment: Very narrow decline for me personally. I'd say wait for a bit if sources pop up for this musician. Aerospeed (Talk) 23:02, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: I have done quite a bit of cleaning up of this draft, correcting various layout problems, etc. but it still lacks many references. There are entire paragraphs without a single citation and even more problematic are the direct quotes that are unsourced. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:15, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
John Borstlap (1950, Rotterdam) is a composer[1], born in the Netherlands, and an early pioneer working on a renaissance of tonal and classical traditions.[2] Also he is an author on cultural subjects, related to music and the visual arts.
Education
John Borstlap studied 1968-73 at the conservatory in Rotterdam[3], composition with Otto Ketting and Theo Loevendie, and piano with Elly Salomé
Early career
After having moved to Delft in 1976, John Borstlap made a living by private piano teaching and accompanying ballet classes, while carrying-out extensive musical studies, as well as studies in art history and Jungian psychology. The American pianist Christopher Czaja Sager, who had shortly before settled in the Netherlands, discovered some of his piano pieces which he performed many times, including radio recordings[4]. In 1981 Sager premièred Borstlap’s ‘Variations’ for piano and string orchestra (commissioned by the Johan Wagenaar Foundation in The Hague) with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Antoni Ros-Marbà with performances in Amsterdam and The Hague.
Cambridge and beyond
In 1984 Borstlap successfully competed, on the basis of two prizes he had meanwhile won with his Violin Concerto, the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan[5] and the Prince Pierre de Monaco Competition in Monaco, for a full British Council Scholarship for a year study at the University of Cambridge[6] At the music faculty he studied with Alexander Goehr. As Borstlap wrote in his book, The Classical Revolution (2013): "Understanding the Schönbergian heritage would mean understanding of the origin of musical modernism".
In 1990 the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Hartmut Haenchen performed Borstlap’s first symphony, Sinfonia.[7]
In the nineties Borstlap was involved in various projects, one of them being an extensive national concert tour of the Ludwig Trio for which he wrote a string trio[8], another the production of a CD with his chamber music Hyperion’s Dream. In 1998 he organized a classical chamber music festival in Haarlem. While working on his music, his writings on musical and wider cultural subjects began to be published.
The beginning of the new millennium saw various performances of his elaboration of a Wagner sketch, Psyche, in Manchester, the Netherlands and Romania, and the publication of a long essay: Recreating the Classical Tradition in the tome Reviving the Muse in which Borstlap formulated his latest ideas about the possibilities of a renaissance of the tonal tradition.[9] Psyche received a successful performance by the Orchestre National de Montpellier in 2008. Since then, interest in Germany and Austria has grown, resulting among other things in a commission by the Kammersymphonie Berlin for a classical symphony. In 2013 his book The Classical Revolution was published.[10]
Works
Orchestral / operatic music:
- Invocazione, orchestra [1972]
- Violin Concerto, violin & orchestra (revised 2003) [1974][11]
- Variations, pf & strings (Commissioned by the Johan Wagenaar Foundation) [1981]
- Sinfonia (Symphony nr 1), chamber orchestra (Work for the M.Phil. Degree at Cambridge University) [1985/88]
- Psyche, orchestra (elaboration of Wagner’s sketch ‘Romeo und Julie’) [1999][12]
- Capriccio (version for orchestra) [2002]
- Flucht nach Kythera, opera/monodrama: sopr, choir & chamber orchestra [2007]
- Four Tagore Poems, sopr & chamber orchestra [2008]
- Symphony nr 2, orchestra (orchestral version of 'Hyperion's Dream') [2009]
- Symphony nr 3 (‘classical symphony’), orchestra (Commissioned by the Kammersymphonie Berlin) [2013]
- Feierliche Abendmusik (co-commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra) [2015][13]
Chamber music (selection):
- Sonata (1 mvt), pf solo [1975]
- Avatâra, pf solo [1980][14]
- Sechs Chinesische Gedichte, sopr & pf [1982]
- Fantasia, pf solo [1985]
- Paraphrase, ensemble: fl-clar-vl-vlc-pf (Work for the M.Phil. Degree at Cambridge University) [1985]
- Hyperion’s Dream, vlc & pf [1992][15]
- Night Music, vla & pf [1993]
- Capriccio, vl-hrn-pf (Commissioned by Antony Boersma) [1994]
- Trio for Strings, vl-vla-vlc (Commissioned by the Culture company) [1996]
- Traum, Lenz, Verwandlung (string quartet) [1997]
- Rajanigandha, Seven poems by Rabindranath Tagore, sopr, fl & pf (Commissioned by the Leo Smit Foundation) [2008]
- Serenade, fl-vl-vlc-pf (Commissioned by the Leo Smit Foundation) [2012]
Writings
selection / sources:
Postmodernism and new music, in 'Maatstaf', cultural magazine in the Netherlands, 1988/4.
Towards a dynamic classicism, in 'Mens & Melodie' (see above), February 1995.
Recreating the Classical Tradition, essay in ‘Reviving the Muse’, published by the Claridge Press UK, 2001.
Cultural identity, in 'Art and Science', see above, 2005/3.
Will the Concertgebouw become one big brother? in 'Trouw', March 2006.
Renewal in music: a wide-spread misunderstanding? in 'Mens & Melodie' (see above), 2007/6.
Tagore: language as the music of interiority, in 'Mens & Melodie' (see above), 2008/5.
The Classical Revolution, published by the Scarecrow Press, New York, in 2013.[16]
Zurück ins Blickfeld der gesellschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit, essay in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 2014/2.
References
- ^ Entartete Musik. Emanuel Overbeeke & Leo Samama.
- ^ "John Borstlap". Muziekencyclopedie.
- ^ "John Borstlap Biography". Last.fm.
- ^ "Leidse Courant".
- ^ "Muziekencyclopedie Biography". Muziekencyclopedie.
- ^ "Composer 20th/21 st century". University of Cambridge.
- ^ "1 Zweifel als Waffe Hartmut Haenchen über Musik" (PDF).
- ^ "Trio for strings:Program note". Donemus.
- ^ "Bias and Inanity in Arts Funding". Aristos. Michelle Marder Kamhi.
- ^ Daniel, Asia. "Book Review "The Classical Revolution"". Springer Link.
- ^ "Henryk Wieniawski Composers Competition". Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society.
- ^ Understanding Music. Roger Scruton.
- ^ "Dallas Symphony Orchestra European tour". Art & Seek. Jerome Weeks.
- ^ "Library Catalogue". University of Toronto Libraries.
- ^ "Hyperion's Dream". Cellosonate.nl.
- ^ "The Classical Revolution". Google Books.
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