Recuillement - Music

Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock September 2 1862 In Amsterdam – April 5 1921 Was A Dutch Composer Essayist And Classicist. He Studied Classics At The University Of Amsterdam Gaining His Doctorate Cum Laude In 1888 With A Dissertation In Latin On The Life Of Seneca. As A Composer He Had Been Completely Self-Taught From An Early Age. He Created A Musical Idiom Which In A Highly Personal Manner Combined 16th-Century Polyphony With Wagnerian Chromaticism To Which In Later Years Was Added The Impressionistic Refinement That He Encountered In Debussy's Music. His Predominantly Vocal Output Is Distinguished By The High Quality Of The Texts Used. Apart From The Ancient Greek Dramatists And Latin Liturgy He Was Inspired By Among Others Goethe Novalis Vondel Brentano Hölderlin Heine Nietzsche Baudelaire And Verlaine. read less