Alphons Diepenbrock
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Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock (September 2, 1862 in Amsterdam – April 5, 1921) was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.
He studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age.
He created a musical idiom which, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to which in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy's music.
His predominantly vocal output is distinguished by the high quality of the texts used. Apart from the Ancient Greek dramatists and Latin liturgy, he was inspired by, among others, Goethe, Novalis, Vondel, Brentano, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Verlaine.
[edit] Works
- Missa in die festo 1891,
- Te Deum 1897,
- Hymne an die Nacht 1899,
- Vondels vaart naar Agrippine 1903,
- Im Grossen Schweigen 1906,
- Die Nacht 1911,
- Marsyas 1910,
- Gijsbreght van Aemstel 1912,
- De Vogels 1917,
- Electra 1920
