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John Borstlap
John Borstlap (born 4 November 1950, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch composer[1] and author[citation needed] on cultural subjects related to music and the visual arts. His work is rooted in German musical traditions[citation needed] and he is a proponent of a revival of tonal and classical traditions[citation needed]. EducationJohn Borstlap studied from 1968 through 1973 at the conservatory in Rotterdam,[2] composition with Otto Ketting and Theo Loevendie, and piano with Elly Salomé. He took a Masters Degree at the University of Cambridge (England) [3][self-published source?] Early careerAfter moving to Delft in 1976, Borstlap made a living by private piano teaching and accompanying ballet classes[citation needed], while carrying out extensive musical studies[citation needed], as well as studies in art history and Jungian psychology[citation needed]. The American pianist Christopher Czaja Sager, who had shortly before settled in the Netherlands, discovered some of his piano pieces which he performed many times, including radio recordings.[4] In 1981 Sager premiered Borstlap's Variations for piano and string orchestra (commissioned by the Johan Wagenaar Foundation in The Hague) with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Antoni Ros-Marbà with performances in Amsterdam and The Hague.[citation needed] Cambridge and beyondOn the basis of two prizes he had meanwhile won[citation needed] with his Violin Concerto (at the Wieniawski Composers Competition[citation needed] in Poznan and the Prince Pierre de Monaco Competition[citation needed]), Borstlap successfully competed in 1984 for a year postgraduate study at Cambridge University[citation needed] on a full British Council Scholarship[citation needed], where he obtained his Degree of Master of Philosophy in 1986[citation needed]. At the music faculty he studied with Alexander Goehr[citation needed]. As Borstlap wrote in his book, The Classical Revolution (2013 / 2017), "understanding the Schönbergian heritage would mean understanding of the origin of musical modernism". In 1990 the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Hartmut Haenchen performed Borstlap's first symphony, Sinfonia.[citation needed] In the nineties Borstlap was involved in various projects, such as an extensive national concert tour of the Ludwig Trio for which he wrote a string trio,[5] and the production of a CD with his chamber music Hyperion’s Dream[citation needed]. In 1998 he organized a classical chamber music festival in Haarlem[citation needed]. While working on his music, his writings on musical and wider cultural subjects began to be published.[citation needed] The beginning of the new millennium saw various performances of his elaboration of a Wagner sketch, Psyche, in Manchester, the Netherlands and Romania[citation needed], and the publication of a long essay: Recreating the Classical Tradition in the tome Reviving the Muse in which Borstlap formulated his latest ideas about the possibilities of a revival of the tonal tradition.[6] In 2002–2005 Borstlap campaigned, together with two colleagues, for a reform of the national subsidy system for new music[citation needed]. A court case in 2012 against the national funding body for new music, which Borstlap won, ended a period of public contestation.[7] Psyche received a successful performance by the Orchestre National de Montpellier in 2008[citation needed]. Since then, interest in Germany and Austria has grown[citation needed], resulting among other things in a commission by the Kammersymphonie Berlin for a classical symphony[citation needed]. In 2013 his book The Classical Revolution was published by the Scarecrow Press (New York), followed by a second edition[citation needed] in 2017 by Dover (New York).[8] In 2016 his Feierliche Abendmusik (Solemn Night Music) received successful[citation needed] performances by the Dallas Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic under conductor Jaap van Zweden (a shared commission by the respective orchestras).[9] Works
Orchestral / operatic music
Symphonies
Chamber music (selection)
Selected writings
References
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