Peter Ritzen News
Belgian musician
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- Belgium
- conductor, pianist, composer, performing artist, actor
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[…] Maximilian Kolbe who, in 1941, volunteered to die in Auschwitz in place of another prisoner and his family. In 1984 the Dies Irae was added as a 40th anniversary remembrance of the Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation; the Sanctus completed the work in 1993. The composer conducted the first performance that year in Stockholm on November 11, which is Remembrance Day, the occasion established to mark the end of hostilities in World War I. Peter Ritzen ‘s Chinese Requiem (8.223980 ) is an intriguing mix of sacred and secular, with a text that acts as a tribute to those who shaped China. Dating from 1990, it was inspired by Buddhist temple music, but cast in the form of the Catholic Requiem Mass. The three bass drum beats that open the work recall the Chinese drums that hang outside Buddhist temples; they also suggest the Holy Trinity. The numerical significance appears […]
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