Cornelis Dopper - Symphony No. 6, 7

Cornelis Dopper

 Symphony No. 6 'Amsterdam'

1. Allegro - 00:00
2. Adagio - 07:18
3. Scherzo: Allegro - 17:11
4. Finale: Allegro Non Troppo - 24:15

Orchestra: Residentie Orkest
Conductor: Matthias Bamert

 

Symphony No. 7, "Zuiderzee" (1917)

조이데르 해(Zuiderzee)13세기부터 네덜란드 내륙 깊숙이 만입한 북해의 한 만이었다가 20세기에 

지금의 서(西)프리지아 제도에 의해 북해로부터 분리된 5,000㎢ 면적의 수역.

1. Allegro animato (0:00)
2. Humoreske. Moderato all' buria (12:22) [경쾌한 선률이 마음을 상쾌하게 해준다]
3. Andante rubato - all' attacca (16:30)
4. Finale (25:42)

Played by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Porcelijn

Cornelis Dopper was a Dutch composer and conductor. He studied the violin, the piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory (1888--1890). His most important teacher was Oscar Paul, who lectured on the history of music and musical aesthetics. Dopper was otherwise self-taught. Back in the Netherlands, he completed his first opera Het blinde meisje van Castel-Cuillé in 1892. In 1897 he became violinist and later also repetiteur and assistant conductor at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, until this company was dissolved in 1903. In 1906, Mengelberg performed his Rembrandt Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Between 1906 and 1908 Dopper worked in the United States as one of the conductors of the Savage Opera Company; among other things, he conducted the American première of Madama Butterfly. At the suggestion of Mengelberg, he was nominated as second conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1908. He mainly worked as a repetiteur but also gave the Dutch premières of pieces such as Debussy's La mer. In 1918 the critic Vermeulen, following the première of Dopper's Zuiderzee Symphony, made known his rejection of Dopper, who was regarded as conservative. This incident led to demotion: until he was dismissed in 1931, Dopper chiefly continued to conduct summer and popular concerts, and the youth concerts which he himself initiated in 1923. His most popular orchestral work, the eclectic Ciaconna gotica (1920), was performed throughout the world by Mengelberg. Dopper was not an innovator as a composer, but possessed a great instinct for orchestral colouring. His interest in antiquity is apparent from works such as the Symphonia epica based on Homer and the orchestral studies Päân I and II. But above all Dopper was a Dutch composer, as shown by the titles of his Rembrandt, Amsterdam and Zuiderzee Symphonies. In this last work he neatly combines melodies from Valerius's songbook Nederlandtsche Gedenck-clanck (1626). Only three of Dopper's works have been published; his complete works are preserved in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.