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Douwe Eisenga
1961 -
The Netherlands
Douwe Eisenga (25/12/1961), a Dutch composer, born in Apeldoorn. He wrote as an autodidact music for the theatre and film. He studied composition with Julius Ament en Wim Dirriwachter at the Groningen conservatory. In his music he uses a lot of different genres: classic, pop, jazz, etc.
Requiem 1953
Written in memory of the victims of the inundation in the south west of Holland in 1953. 1845 people drowned in the flood.
The texts are taken from the Latin Mass for the death, Sea-elegy of Vasili Zjoekovski (also: Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovski / Zjukovski) (1783 - 1852), poems of Hieronymus (Girolamo) Savonarola (1452 - 1498) and from The Flood - Zeeland 1953 of the Canadian rescuer Christopher Levenson (1934). The texts are in Latin, English and Spanish. It contains: 1. Introïtus 2. Abyssus Misericordea 3. The Village 4. Nubes Oscuras 5. Alle Summer Long 6. Kyrie / Lux Aeterna 7. Like a promise 8. Libera me 9. Requiem Aeternam
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