Johan de Meij

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

La Quintessenza is a musical approach of the quintessence, the heart of the matter. By focusing a five note motif in a number of variants, De Meij tries to get through to the essence of the musical ma...

Johan de Meijs erste Sinfonie'The Lord of the Rings' (Der Herr der Ringen) basiert auf der gleichnamigen Trilogie von J. R. R. Tolkien. Dieses Buch hat seit seiner Veröffentlichung im Jahr 1955 viele...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

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Marche Americana owes a great deal to those heroic movie marches by composers in the like of John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, and others. In fact, you could say that it is a brash film t...

Der dänische Komponist Soren Hyldgaard komponierte mit viel Hingabe und Begeisterung die Musik zur Verfilmung von Till Eulenspiegel. Aus dieser Musik voll Spannung, Schalk und übertriebener Komik wähl...

Die schwedische Popgruppe ABBA wurde besonders populär nach dem Sieg beim Eurosong Festival 1974 mit dem Hit 'Waterloo'. Johan de Meij war einer der allerersten Arrangeurs der einige ABBA Erfolge für...

Es gab keine einzige Beatgruppe die je erfolgreicherwar als'The Beatles',eine 1959 von vier jungen Männern aus Liverpool gegründete Band. Inzwischen ist die Musik von John Lennon und Paul Mc Cartney s...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...