Rudi Martinus van Dijk
Rudi Martinus van Dijk | |
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The Netherlands | |
Died | 29 November 2003 Peasmarsh, East Sussex, United Kingdom | (aged 71)
Occupation(s) | Composer and pianist |
Spouse | Jeanne van Dijk (née Koning) (1930- 2024) |
Children | Felix van Dijk (1954- ) Walter van Dijk (1961- ) |
Rudi Martinus van Dijk (27 March 1932 – 29 November 2003) was a Dutch and
and vocal music.In all Van Dijk's music, whichever of his stylistic trends it seems immediately to favour, the voice of a highly original creator is to be heard. Sources, as Béla Bartók noted, are much less important in framing a composer's achievement than the use he makes of them.[1] The discriminating ear that makes Van Dijk's orchestral music at once beguiling and immediately recognisable as a personal expression is also to be discerned on the smaller sound-scale of his chamber compositions. And one of Van Dijk's most notable characteristics - a purposeful firmness of the bass line - imbues his music in all genres with an unfailing sense of logical and expressive direction, even in the context of a highly inflected harmonic chromaticism. It would be a bold annotator who ventured to pin Van Dijk's artistic origins down to one or other national or stylistic source. What can be said is that he has, with unusual success, blended an emotional intensity at times evocative of the world of Austro-German expressionism with a fascinating subtlety and indirectness of utterance suggestive rather of French affinities. From time to time, the analyst with a taste for such trouvailles may detect what seem like 12-note series in Van Dijk's writing; but these are the incidental consequence of his avoidance of casual note-repetition, and they are never exploited in systematic serial manner. For Van Dijk is no follower of systems, but rather a creator with the richly endowed imagination of a poet, a thinker, and a voracious reader to bring to expression, and the single mindedness needed to realise that aim.[2]
One of the properties of mercury is that it does not amalgamate with the matter in which it has contact, but rather remains by its very nature intrinsically unadulterated in form. It is this unadulterated quality, which is the watermark of Rudi Martinus van Dijk's compositional creative process; a quality, which marks him as a composer belonging to all ages and, at the same time, to no age at all.[3]
Biography
Childhood and early musical career (1938-1955)
Van Dijk is survived by his wife Jeanne Elisabeth Anna van Dijk- Koning ( born Voorburg, Netherlands September 4, 1930– ) and his two sons Felix van Dijk (born Leidschendam, Netherlands, October 5, 1954–) and Walter van Dijk (born Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 20, 1961–).
The Rudi Martinus van Dijk Foundation [42] is a fundraising charitable music foundation which sponsors aspiring composers and conductors who live in parts of the world where there is political strife and/or economic deprivation.
Notable works
- Four Epigrams for Symphony Orchestra (1962)
- Concertante for Flute and String Orchestra (1963)
- A Christmas Cantata (Now is the Prophet's Time) for solo tenor, school choir, mixed choir and orchestra (1967)
- Immobile Eden for soprano, flute and piano (1972)
- The Shadowmaker, four pieces for baritone and orchestra (1977)
- Concerto for violin and orchestra (1984)
- Irish Symphony in four movements for orchestra (1990)
- Concerto for piano and orchestra (1994)
- Kreiten's Passion for baritone, choir and orchestra (2003)
Chamber works
- Sonatina for piano (1951)
- Sonata for Clarinet and piano (1955)
- Two Lieder for soprano and piano (1958)
- Movement for Alto saxophone and piano (1960)
- Le tombeau de Francis Poulenc : for piano four hands or 2 pianos, 1965 (1964)
- Bagatelle for piano (1969)
- Lament for a Dying Bird: Three pieces for solo clarinet (1979)
- Incantation for solo flute (1982)
- Sonata for Violin and piano (1995)
- Two pieces with interlude : for soprano, flute/piccolo/bass flute and piano (1995)
- Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano (1996)
- String Sextet (1997)
- A touch of the Blues : for piano solo (1998)
- String Quartet in five movements (1999)
- Piano Trio : for violin, violoncello and piano (2001)
References
- ^ Emergo Classics, Rudi Martinus van Dijk, Immobile Eden. Notes by Bernard Jacobson. Philadelphia, 1996
- ^ Emergo Classics, Rudi Martinus van Dijk, Immobile Eden. Notes by Bernard Jacobson. Philadelphia, 1996
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2006). "Who was Rudi Martinus van Dijk?". Donemus.
- ^ "Geheugen van Nederland".
- ISBN 978-90-74560-20-7.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-5509-5.
- ^ John Kraglund (April 21, 1962). "Epigrams for Schools used Big Ben Theme". The Globe and Mail. p. 17.
- ^ Commission for the Young, CBC Times, April 7–13, 1962. page 9
- ISBN 978-0-8020-5509-5.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-5509-5.
- ^ "Playschool (BBC Two, England February 18th, 1966)".
- ^ Emergo Classics, Rudi Martinus van Dijk, Immobile Eden. Notes by Bernard Jacobson. Philadelphia, 1996
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2006). "Who was Rudi Martinus van Dijk?". Donemus.
- ^ Sinfonietta Pori Sinfoniakonsertti 10, to 6.5.2004 klo 19, Promenadikeskus. Rudi Martinus van Dijk Concertante (1963)
- ^ "Orchestra to perform Van Dijk Composition". Fort Wayne News Sentinel. 30 March 1974. p. 3W.
- ^ Guy Huot (March 1979). "In the News: Composers". MusiCanada. p. 5.
- ^ "Historica Canada".
- ^ "Historica Canada".
- ^ PRO Canada The Music Scene, May–June 1978, No. 301, ISSN 0380-5131
- ISBN 978-0-00-255406-0.|page=298
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2006). "Who was Rudi Martinus van Dijk?". Donemus.
- ^ Festival van Vlaanderen International: Programmaboek Gent & Historische Steden. 1991
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2006). "Who was Rudi Martinus van Dijk?". Donemus.
- ^ Basil Ramsey (September 1989). "World Music News". Music and Musicians. p. 8.
- ^ Sytze Smit (September 7, 1993). "Concert Info". Entr'Acte. p. 57.
- ^ "Zaterdag tijdens een concert in Den Haag: Werk Rudi van Dijk uit Lelystad gespeeld door resident orkest". FlevoPost. September 22, 1993. p. 1.
- ^ Eric Schoones (May 1996). "De Concertagenda". Piano Wereld. p. 20.
- ^ Noord Nederlands Orkest, Kom & Luister Magazine NNO Programma 95-96. pg. 12, 17
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2006). "Who was Rudi Martinus van Dijk?". Donemus.
- ^ Nicky Hersch (March 2003). "Purcell Room. Rudi M van Dijk 70th Birthday Tribute". South Bank Magazine.
- ^ Time Out (March 5, 2003). "Dutch Treat". Time Out London. p. 127.
- ^ "Ian Partridge, tenor".
- ^ "BBC Lunchtime concert Anthony Marwood, violin and Kyoto Hashimoto, piano". Music at St. George's Brandon Hill Bristol. March 23, 1995.
- ^ "Mayuri Boonham Atma Dance".
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2006). "Who was Rudi Martinus van Dijk?". Donemus.
- ^ Martijn Sanders (November 20, 2001). "Abonnementen 2000-2001". Het Concertgebouw. p. 63.
- ^ "Musical World, Florestan Trio".
- ^ Maarten Brandt (2003). "Lash of the Whip of Rudi van Dijk: An important premiere in Düsseldorf". Mens en Melodie, Edition 5/6. pp. 164–167.
- ^ "Programmheft zu Kreiten's Passion".
- ^ Tomes, Susan (21 January 2004). "Obituary: Rudi Martinus van Dijk The Guardian". The Guardian.
- ^ "Seen and Heard, Obituary, Rudi van Dijk in memoriam, a personal reflection by Bernard Jacobson".
- ^ "Rudi Martinus van Dijk Foundation".
Further reading
- Jacobson, Bernard (2015). Star Turns and Cameo Appearances: Memoirs of a Life among Musicians (First published 2015 ed.). Croydon, UK: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-541-0.
- Peters, Peter (1995). Eeuwige jeugd: Een halve eeuw Stichting Gaudeamus (First published 1995 ed.). Amsterdam: Donemus. ISBN 978-90-74560-20-7.
- Kallmann, Helmut, ed. (1981). Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Reprinted 1981 ed.). Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-5509-5.
- ISBN 978-0-00-255406-0.