Works
poet
: Verwey, Albert
instrumentation: tenor and piano ♦ Albert Verwey (1865-1937) belonged to Diepenbrock’s close circle of friends that studied Greek and Latin or Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam. Together with Willem Kloos, Fr…
instrumentation: female choir and piano ♦ Albert Verwey wrote his elegy Rouw om het jaar (Lament for the Year) on New Year’s Eve of 18841. It is largely inspired by Autumn: a Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley and The Death of the Old Year by Alfr…
instrumentation: vocal quartet ♦ The exact reason for setting De groote hond en de kleine kat (The Large Dog and the Small Cat), a humoristic text by Albert Verwey, to music has not been documented. However, it may be assumed that th…
