Johan de Meij

Empire of Light is also based on a work by René Magritte. He was a versatile and productive artist producing over 1100 paintings and 700 gouaches. Johan de Meij used the painting Empire of Light as hi...

Trittico Eclettico entstand auf Wunsch von Arno Piters, Klarinettist beim Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Der Titel Trittico Eclettico (eklektisches Triptychon) bezieht sich auf die drei S...

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Johan de Meij completed his first composition in 1979, a brief three‐part work for six brass playersnamed "Patchwork": a mixture of different musical concepts that kept lingering in his mind.Patchwork...

Johan de Meij completed his first composition in 1979, a brief three‐part work for six brass playersnamed "Patchwork": a mixture of different musical concepts that kept lingering in his mind.Patchwork...

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 sy...

Sinfonietta No. 1, written for brass band, was commissioned by the Dutch National Championships 2011 in Groningen. It also served as the test piece for the Swiss National Championships 2011 in Montreu...

Sinfonietta No. 1, written for brass band, was commissioned by the Dutch National Championships 2011 in Groningen. It also served as the test piece for the Swiss National Championships 2011 in Montreu...

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 symp...

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 sy...

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 symp...

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 sy...

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 symp...

Barry Manilow, whose real name is Barry Alan Pinkus (Brooklyn, 1946), studied at the famous New-York Julliard Conservatory of Music and became arranger for the well-known Ed Sullivan Television Show....

Klezmer is the traditional instrumental music for weddings and parties of the Yiddish speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. Its origin goes back to the sixteenth century. At this time Yiddish culture was a...

The large creative output of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865 - 1931) contains six symphonies, chamber music, vocal works and music for the theatre: two operas (Saul & David and Maskerade) and s...

The funeral music from the melodrama Bergliot by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg consists of two instrumental fragments, that musically illustrate the dramatic events of the story. Johan de Meij i...

The funeral music from the melodrama Bergliot (declamation and orchestra) by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) consists of two orchestral fragments which illustrate the dramatical even...

The composer was inspired by heroic movie marches by composers including John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, and others.

The opera-ballet Mlada was an epic project involving six different Russiancomposers including Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Unfortunately the work didn't ever receive a performance howevert...

The concert march March to Mars was written for a composition-contest of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corportation (EBU). This spectacular work was composed by Julius Steffaro, a pen-name of Jan Stoecka...

The premiere of Riverdance took place on April 30, 1994 during a seven-minute pause in the Eurovision Song Contest at the Point Theatre, Dublin. Thanks to 10, 000 performances on four continents, TV a...

The Musical CATS, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It became Lloyd Webber’s third great success, after the m...

The Musical CATS, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It became Lloyd Webber’s third great success, after the m...

With hit musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most successful musical composer ever. His most recent production...