Various Artists
Van Doesburg: Repertoire De Stijl - Bauhaus - Dada
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A full-length overview of the avant-garde piano repertoire of Nelly (aka Pétro) van Doesburg, performed at various De Stijl, Dada and Bauhaus events in Europe between 1920 and 1925.
Born in the Netherlands in 1899, Nelly met De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Wiemar, where Theo was an associate of the influential Bauhaus art and architecture school, and then Paris. A conservatory-trained pianist, Nelly often accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces, and also performed at Salon Dada soirees organised by Theo with Kurt Schwitters in Holland and Germany during 1922/23. Following Theo's premature death in 1931, Nelly established the De Stijl archive.
The pieces on this 76 minute CD is performed by Dutch pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, and includes material by Erik Satie, Josef Matthias Hauer, Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger and Jacob van Domselaer, whose austere Proeven Van Stijlkunst (1913-17) represents the application of Piet Mondriaan's neo-plastic principles to musical composition.
Release notes
A 77 minute overview of the piano repertoire performed by Nelly (Pétro) van Doesburg (1899 - 1975) at De Stijl, Bauhaus and Dada events between 1921 and 1925. Booklet included archive images and detailed liner notes. CD previously released as Pianomuziek uit het repertoire van Pétro van Doesburg (PVBH 2005) With thanks to Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, Bloomline, Wies van Moorsel, Patricia Huisman, Frank Brinkhuis. On inlay: Made in EU On disc: Made in UK Recorded in 1999
| Barlumi (1917) | |||
| 1 | Non Lento Troppo, Scorrevole | 2:39 | |
| 2 | Lento | 2:19 | |
| 3 | Vivace, Atquanto Mosso | 2:17 | |
| 4 | Molto Vicace | 2:58 | |
| 5 | Lento, Misterioso | 1:17 | |
| Proeven Van Stijlkunst (1914 - 15) | |||
| 6 | Nr. III | 2:01 | |
| 7 | Nr. IV | 2:21 | |
| 8 | Nr. V | 1:40 | |
| 9 | Nr. VI | 2:30 | |
| Trois Mouvements Perpétuels (1918) | |||
| 10 | Assez Modèré | 1:18 | |
| 11 | Très Modèré | 1:32 | |
| 12 | Alerte | 2:48 | |
| 13 | Tanz Opus 10 (1915) | 4:58 | |
| Tre Marcie Per Le Bestie (1920) | |||
| 14 | Marcia Funebre Per Un Uccelino | 4:32 | |
| 15 | Marcia Nuziale Per Un Coccodrillo | 4:37 | |
| 16 | Marcia Militare Per Le Formiche | 2:51 | |
| Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Opus 19 (1911) | |||
| 17 | Leicht, Zart | ||
| 18 | Langsam | ||
| 19 | Sehr Langsam | ||
| 20 | Rasch, Aber Leicht | ||
| 21 | Etwas Rasch | ||
| 22 | Sehr Langsam | ||
| Trois Pièces Pour Piano (1915-19) | |||
| 23 | Prélude | 3:26 | |
| 24 | Hommage à Ravel | 2:49 | |
| 25 | Danse | 2:09 | |
| 26 | Ragtime Parade | 2:53 | |
| Extract: Drie Pathematologiën (1915) | |||
| 27 | Hallucinatie | 3:30 | |
| Eklogen, Opus 11 (1913) | |||
| 28 | Nänie | ||
| 29 | Intermezzo | ||
| 30 | Burleske | ||
| 31 | Epilog | ||
| 32 | Ti-TaTó | 1:55 | |
- James Nice
- Curated By
- Leo de Klerk
- Engineer, Recorded By
- Julien Potter
- Layout
- James Hayward
- Liner Notes
- Mylene Siegers
- Photography By [Portrait of Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen]
- Lucia Moholy-Nagy
- Photography By [Profiel portrait of Nelly van Doesburg]
- Various Artists
- Piano [Solo Piano, Steinway and Sons D 393210]
