Cornelis De Bondt
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Cornelis de Bondt (born 9 December 1953) is a Dutch
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
. Born in
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, de Bondt attended the Royal Conservatory there and currently teaches
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at the same institution. In 2011 all of de Bondt's scores were withdrawn by the composer as a protest against arts funding cuts in the Netherlands. He has stated that he now sees the orchestral "score", the music in fixed notated form, as a symbol of neo-liberalism, and is therefore exploring non-fixed notational methods.


Works

Compositions by Cornelis de Bondt include the following: *''Bint'', written for Hoketus (1979-1980) *''Karkas'', for large ensemble (1981-1983, first performed Holland Festival, 10 June 2002) *''The Broken Ear'', cycle of works (1984-1996) *''Bloed'', for voices and orchestra (1997–2001) *''Bloed II'', written for the
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and Netherlands Wind Ensemble (1997–98) *''Die wahre Art'', piano concerto (2000) *''Gli toccha la mano'', written for Cristina Zavalloni,
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(2002) *''Gran Sinfonia – Il tempo giusto'', for orchestra (2010)


References

1953 births Living people Dutch male classical composers 21st-century Dutch classical composers Musicians from The Hague Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni 21st-century Dutch male musicians {{Netherlands-composer-stub