After challenging the Dutch musical establishment as a young man, he went on to write a series of large and loud symphonic works that grappled with big ideas. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim David ...

In April and May, renegade Dutch composer Louis Andriessen comes to Carnegie Hall as holder of this season's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair. Highlights of his spring residency include: A ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Friday night, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the world premiere of Louis ...

Life (2009) was the first piece Louis Andriessen composed specifically for his friends in the Bang in a Can All-Stars. According to the composer, [Artist Marijke van Warmerdam and I] decided to make a ...

Here is, for now, post-modern artistic ambition incarnate – a 2008 collaboration of extraordinary composer and avant-troublemaker Louis Andriessen, now 75, and film director Hal Hartley on a “film ...

Perhaps an example of this kindness and a couple of anecdotes might give a flavour of this extraordinary being. In 2002, I organised a festival of his music at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of ...

Hartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to create the staging for Dutch composer Louis ...

Louis Andriessen's opera, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, plays out as a combination of a stage production and filmed elements, which sees Dante as a journalist, Beatrice as a Diplomat and Lucifer as ...