Herman Strategier (1912-1988)

Musique pour faire plaisir : orchestre à cordes (1950)

1. Con spirito - 00:00
2. Andante cantabile - 03:51
3. Allegro - 06:36
4. Rondeau-Final - 08:10

orchestra: Radio Kamerorkest
conductor: Roelof Krol

dedicated to het Hollands Strijkorkest and Henk Spruit


Herman Strategier was a Dutch composer and organist. He studied with Dusch (piano), Winnubst (theory) and Hendrik Andriessen (organ and composition) at the Roman Catholic School of Church Music, Utrecht, later continuing studies with Andriessen (the greatest influence on his work) for several years. Together with Jan Mul and Albert de Klerk, also pupils of Andriessen, Strategier pursued his teacher's devotion to the Roman Catholic liturgy and to writing music for laymen. His orchestral work Musique pour faire plaisir (1950) expressed this main aesthetic. In addition to teaching at the conservatories of Utrecht and Rotterdam and at Utrecht University, he was until 1973 conductor of the Dutch Madrigal Choir of Leiden.

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