PIJPER, Willem 1894-1947

Trio No. 2 [Score and parts]

Violino Violoncello e Pianoforte

London: Oxford University Press, 1925.

Folio. Original publisher's brown printed wrappers with titling to upper. Score: 24; Violin: 5; Cello: 5 pp.

Wrappers slightly worn; partial split to spine; monogrammatic sticker to upper. Performance annotations in string parts throughout.

First Edition. Kloppenburg, p. 59.

"Pijper was, with Vermeulen, the most important composer in the Netherlands in the first half of the 20th century; his teaching and writing also made a significant impact. He grew up in a working-class Calvinist milieu in a village outside Utrecht... Already studying the organ, he left school in 1911 to enroll in the Utrecht Toonkunst Muziekschool, where he studied composition with Johan Wagenaar and the piano with Helena van Lunteren-Hansen. His final examination, in 1915, was in theory, and he continued composition lessons privately for three more years... A radical new compositional style... made Pijper leader of the Dutch musical avant garde. He represented the Netherlands at the founding of the ISCM in Salzburg, 1922; soon after, backed by Sem Dresden, he established the Dutch ISCM section... The String Quartet no.4 (1928), based on an octatonic germ cell, attains polymetric extremes; during moments in the finale, none of the players share a common downbeat." Harrison Ryker in Grove Music Online.

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