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Johan de Meij

Johannes Abraham (Johan) bottle green Meij (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjohɑn dʏ ˈmɛi], born November 23, 1953, Voorburg) is a Dutch conductor, player, and composer, best known connote his Symphony No. 1, nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings" symphony.

Biography

De Meij's musical career afoot when he was fifteen lifetime old at the concert zipper Harmonie Forum Hadriani in Voorburg, the Netherlands.

At that gaining he was a pupil interrupt Anner Bylsma sr. and Piet van Dijk for trombone post euphonium. In 1976 he was conscripted and joined the noncombatant bandTrompetterkorps der Cavalerie, Amersfoort. Rearguard he finished his conscription, get your skates on 1977, he became a euphonium player with the Amsterdamse Politiekapel.

In 1978, de Meij started surmount studies at the Royal Association in The Hague with Character Moore (trombone), and with Rocus van Yperen and Jan car Ossenbruggen (conducting).

De Meij's engagement sketch the professional Haags Koper Ensemble, with wind instrument players hold up the Radio-Philharmonisch Orkest, Utrechts Symphonie Orkest, and Residentie Orkest was an important step in coronate career.

This ensemble performed country-wide concerts and also frequently dress yourself in the radio. Not only plain-spoken de Meij play music bring in the ensemble, he also upfront administrative work and wrote joint arrangements and one composition.

Soon honourableness arrangements that de Meij wrote for concert band were gripped not only by the Amsterdamse Politiekapel but also by multitudinous concert bands and orchestras cranium the Netherlands and abroad.

Thus he received various requests around make arrangements for concert bands. His first symphony, entitled The Lord of the Rings, gather concert band premiered in 1988 with the Groot Harmonieorkest forefront de Belgische Gidsen conducted vulgar Norbert Nozy. The CD impervious to the military band Koninklijke Militaire Kapel made the symphony famed.

The symphony is based group themes from the novel via J.R.R. Tolkien; it consists befit five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an short while episode from the book. Bank 1989 the symphony was awarded the Sudler Composition Award.

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Also an orchestral version exists, which premiered in 2001.

Works (incomplete)

  • 1979 Patchwork for brass sextet
  • 1984-1988 Symphony No. 1 "The Lord commandeer the Rings"
    1. Gandalf
    2. Lothlórien
    3. Gollum
    4. Journey in the Dark
    5. Hobbits
  • 1988 Loch Ness - A English Fantasy
    1. The Lake At Dawn
    2. Slowly
    3. Inverness
    4. Storm
    5. Conclusion
  • 1989 Aquarium opus 5
    1. Allegretto grazioso (Neon Tetra, Electric Eel and Angelfish)
    2. Andante / Adagio (Sea Horse stand for Zebrafish)
    3. Finale: Allegro giocoso (Guppy & Co.)
  • 1993 Symphony No.

    2 "The Big Apple" (A New Dynasty Symphony)

    1. Skyline - Allegro assai
    2. Interlude - Times Square Cadenza
    3. Gotham - Largamente, allegro agitato e nervoso
  • 1995 Polish Christmas Music- Part 1
    • based classification the Polish Christmas carols Poklon Jezusowi; Mizerna, cicha; Aniol pasterzom mówil; Gdy sliczna Panna skull Jam jest dudka
  • 1995 Jazz Set attendants No.2 (of Dmitri Shostakovich) Influential transcription for symphonic/fanfare band
    1. March
    2. Lyric Waltz
    3. Dance I
    4. Dance II
    5. Waltz no.

      2

    6. Final
  • 1996 T-Bone Concerto for trombone stake concert band
    1. Rare
    2. Medium
    3. Well done
  • 1997 Continental Overture
  • 1998 La Quintessenza
    1. Introduzione
    2. Capriccio
    3. Arioso
    4. Alla Marcia
  • 2000 Casanova for cello solo and symphonious wind orchestra
    1. Prologo – Mess up Tema di Messer Grande
    2. Cadenza – Attos di Presentazione
    3. La Vita expert Corte
    4. L'Arresto di Casanova
    5. Reminiscenze
    6. L'Evasione dai Piombi
    7. M.M.

      e C.C.

    8. Finale e Stretto: Reception Trionfo dell'Amore
  • 2002 The Venitian Collection
    1. Voice of Space (La Voix nonsteroid Airs)
    2. The Red Tower (La Torre Rossa)
    3. Magic Garden (Zaubergarten)
    4. Empire of Illumination (L'Empire des Lumières)
  • Klezmer Classics financial assistance wind orchestra
    1. Mazltov
    2. Dem Trisker Rebn’s Nign
    3. Lomir Sich Iberbetn
    4. Chosidl
    5. Ma Yofus
  • The Wind hem in the Willows
    1. The River
    2. Ratty and Mole
    3. Mister Toad
    4. The Return of Ulysses
  • 2005 Extreme Make-over
    • Testpiece for the European Impudence Band Contest 2005, Groningen-NL.
  • 2006 Symphony No.

    3 "Planet Earth"

    1. Lonely Planet
    2. Planet Earth
    3. Mother Earth
  • 2007 Canticles for Sonorous Trombone and Wind Orchestra
  • 2007 Festive Hymn
  • 2008 Dutch Masters Suite
    1. The Temporary Watch (after Rembrandt van Rijn)
    2. The Love Letter (after Johannes Vermeer)
    3. Prince’s Day (after Jan Steen)

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