Dutch Music

Most of the songs in the Dutch music scene have been composed or have been made by unanimous people between the period of the 16th century and the 19th century.



The seeds of Dutch music have been sown with a conviction and a lot of enthusiasm also.

But the post results have been largely neglected. A large amount of new music, which originates from the Netherlands is mostly granted only a single and often a very uneasy, performance in the cultures outside Netherlands.

The annual Dutch Music Days, which is a music festival from the Netherlands, is held in Utrecht's Muziekcentrum Vredenburg. This annual music festival that showcases Dutch music mainly aims to give Dutch music and its compositions the much-needed boost that they deserve.

This annual festival of Dutch music not only promotes the new pieces of Dutch music, but it also offers a second chance to showcase the works and compositions of Dutch music from the past whose value has been overlooked in the recent years.

This year's guest programmer for this Dutch music film festival sis Lucas Vis. Lucas Vis is a conductor, conservatory director and also the treasure hunter for this event.

Although Lucas Vis has never really consciously specialized in any specific repertoire of the Dutch music, nevertheless decades of experience with the Netherlands and its music have acquainted him with much of the neglected Dutch music.

The spirit in which the year's Dutch Music Days took shape is what the programme overview aptly refers to as an anthology. Lucas Vis has chosen works of contemporary Dutch masters, which features artists such as Theo Loevendie, Louis Andriessen and Klaas de Vries.

And he has also chosen famous composers of the yesteryears such as Johan Wagenaar, Alphons Diepenbrock, Hendrik Andriessen and Willem Pijper.

The older compositions of the Dutch music are treasures, which need to be brought to the public's attention from time to time; otherwise the public would surely risk losing sight of their own cultural history.

It is apparent that a few festival days of the Dutch Music aren't close to being sufficient to do justice to the abundance of worthy musical compositions, but it comes close to a good effort to fill up the gap.