Johan de Meij

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

La Quintessenza is a musical approach of the quintessence, the heart of the matter. By focusing a five note motif in a number of variants, De Meij tries to get through to the essence of the musical ma...

Johan de Meij's first symphony'The Lord of the Rings' is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

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Marche Americana owes a great deal to those heroic movie marches by composers in the like of John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, and others. In fact, you could say that it is a brash film t...

This lively new work, expertly arranged by Johan de Meij, is taken from the soundtrack of the recently released animated film Till Eulenspiegel. In writing the music for the film the composer, Søren H...

The Swedish pop music group ABBA boasted a fantastic world wide success after winning the 'Eurosong Festival' in 1974 with the song 'Waterloo'. Johan de Meij was one of the very first arrangers to tur...

No pop music group whatsoever was more popular than The Beatles, founded in 1959 by those four boys from Liverpool. In the meantime, the music by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney has become immortal. J...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...