Jakob van Domselaer
Jakob van Domselaer (15 April 1890 in Nijkerk, Gelderland – 5 January 1960) was a Dutch composer. Domselaer was born in Nijkerk, Netherlands. In 1912, he traveled to Paris where he met the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), eventually becoming a part of Mondrian's artistic circle known as "De Stijl." Domselaer's piano suite Proeven van Stijlkunst (Experiments in Artistic Style, 1913–17) represented the first attempt to apply principles of Neo-Plasticism to music, and Mondrian asserted that pieces were created under the influence of the plus-minus painting he created around the year 1915.
Jakob van Domselaer
- Birth Name
- Jakob van Domselaer
- Born
- 15 April 1890
- Died
- 5 January 1960
- Birthplace
- Nijkerk, Netherlands
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- composer
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Jakob van Domselaer (15 April 1890 in Nijkerk, Gelderland – 5 January 1960) was a Dutch composer. Domselaer was born in Nijkerk, Netherlands. In 1912, he traveled to Paris where he met the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), eventually becoming a part of Mondrian's artistic circle known as "De Stijl." Domselaer's piano suite Proeven van Stijlkunst (Experiments in Artistic Style, 1913–17) represented the first attempt to apply principles of Neo-Plasticism to music, and Mondrian asserted that pieces were created under the influence of the plus-minus painting he created around the year 1915.
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This austere, mathematically based music represents an important but as yet unacknowledged precedent to minimalism and has been little performed or recorded. He died in Bergen, Netherlands. Domselaer's students have included the Dutch composers Nico Schuyt and Simeon ten Holt. At the Berlage Concourse in 1988, the Dutch pianist Kees Wieringa was one of the prize winners, playing piano music by Domselaer. Domselaer married Maaike Middelkoop, with whom he had three children. His son, Jaap van Domselaer (1923–1944), was a promising young poet when he was shot while trying to escape from German-occupied Netherlands to the liberated zone in 1944. His daughter, Matie van Domselaer, married Constant Nieuwenhuys on 13 July 1942, and later Asger Jorn in 1950.
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• Birth Name — Jakob van Domselaer • Born — 15 April 1890 • Died — 5 January 1960 • Birthplace — Nijkerk, Netherlands
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• Recording by Kees Wieringa • Recording on the Donemus Foundation's Composer's Voice label
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- 1.Algemeen Handelsblad 10 november 1919, recensie
- 2.J. Heymans: Arabesk. Over Simeon ten Holt. IJzer, Utrecht, 2019, 428 pag. . Hierin veel aandacht voor de relatie tussen Van Domselaer en Ten Holt.
- 3.Primaire teksten van M. van Domselaer-Middelkoop. Gearchiveerd op 27 november 2020.
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