These works were created not long ago, after a period in which composing more or less came to a standstill. Although I improvised and composed at a young age, it was mainly concertizing and teaching that determined the beginning of my career.
\nAnother reason was the contrast that existed during my student days between new and old music. There seemed to be only supporters and opponents of one direction or the other. My high school agendas were full of 12-tone themes, which I tried to imagine in canon, I improvised with clusters and dissonances. At the same time I was fascinated by the new performances of old music, then still emerging, but full of promise for a deeper understanding of that music.
\nBut there was little support for my ambition to compose in the polarised musical environment of my student days. It was only with the work for Stichting voor de Wind, in which we sought a broader audience for the art of the organ, and initially piggybacking on the latest music in which consonance, repetition and recognisable elements were given a place again, that I developed a style of writing that was also appreciated by the audience. This led to the Five Light Pieces and later a series of works with different stylistic approaches, which, judging by the reactions, nevertheless led to a recognisable musical idiom. Supported by Hugo Bakker, as publisher of Valeurajoutee, and later by Peter van der Zwaag, who picked up this thread at Boeijenga, these works have become accessible and new compositions are still appearing.<\/p>\n
Most of the works below can be viewed separately on the other pages, with an explanation and usually a recording.
\nAll published works are available at boeijengamusic.com.<\/p>\n
Organ<\/b><\/p>\n
Five Light Pieces (2008)
\n– Plein Jeu
\n– en Taille
\n– Pi\u00e8ce Crois\u00e9e
\n– En Trio
\n– Grand Jeu<\/p>\n
Tripartite (2015)
\n– Toccata de ma esquerra
\n– Impromptu
\n– Jigg<\/p>\n
Distant Music (2016)
\n– Canto Baltica
\n– Passing
\n– Ostinato
\n– Moods<\/p>\n
Capriccio on a Dutch folk song (2021)<\/p>\n
422play (2019)
\n– Cumuli
\n– A certain harmony<\/p>\n
Nine Short Pieces (2022) R\u00eaves (2023) Ten Duo\u2019s (2024)<\/p>\n Organ for two players<\/b><\/p>\n 422play (2019) Discurso (edition in preparation)<\/p>\n Fancy in C (edition in preparation)<\/p>\n Mouvement (2024, edition in preparation)<\/p>\n Mein junges Leben hat kein End (edition in preparation)<\/p>\n Interludes (partly arrangements of Distant Music) Choir and organ\/piano<\/b> Choir SATB Deze werken zijn niet lang geleden ontstaan, na een periode waarin het componeren min of meer stillag. Hoewel ik op jonge leeftijd al improviseerde en componeerde, heeft vooral het concerteren en onderwijzen het begin van mijn carri\u00e8re bepaald. Een andere reden was de tegenstelling die in mijn studietijd bestond tussen nieuwe en oude muziek. Er […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reitzesmits.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTriptych<\/em>
\n1 Preludium
\n2 Fugati
\n3 Postludium
\nToys<\/em>
\n4 Easy Toy
\n5 Noisy Toy
\n6 Gentle Toy
\nOn old examples<\/em>
\n7 Organum
\n8 Estampie
\n9 Upon ReLaDo<\/p>\n
\n– Nocturne
\n– Interrompu
\n– Dernier R\u00eave<\/p>\n
\n– Cumuli
\n– A certain harmony<\/p>\n
\nViolin and Organ<\/b><\/p>\n
\n– Canto Baltica
\n– Passing
\n– Moods
\n– Canzona Suave<\/p>\n
\nTrumpet, saxophone or clarinet and Organ
\n<\/b>Unlocked
\n– Three movements<\/p>\n
\nVier kurze Kafka Geschichte
\nRilke Requiem
\nNot yet (for youth choir and piano)
\nTagore Songs (for youth choir, soprano solo, saxophone and piano)<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Brexit Quotes<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"