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Frans Geysen (born 29 July 1936) is a Belgian composer and a writer on music topics.


Biography


Frans Geysen was born in Oostham, and studied music at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, and at the conservatories of Antwerp and Ghent. In 1962 he became professor of harmony and analysis at the Lemmens Institute, and since 1975 has taught at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels.[1]


Musical style


In 1962 he started using serial techniques, but in 1967 turned against the rhythmic aperiodicity and discontinuity characteristic of that technique.[1] Instead, he began to use repetitive rhythmic structures similar to those of American minimalists such as Glass, Reich, Riley, and Young,[2] though he developed these rhythmic ideas independently and retained the constructivism of serial thinking.[1] He also continued to use twelve-tone rows often in his music, utilizing rows lacking thirds, perfect fifths, and semitones, in order to avoid suggestions of tonality and mutual attraction between pitches.[3] His music is abstract, excluding emotion as either expression or goal.[1] He explores a purposeful monotony, inspired by the monotony of the landscape of Flanders—and especially its easternmost province, Limburg, where he grew up.[3] His compositions include theatrical works, choral and chamber music, the orchestral Staalkaarten voor een hoboconcert (1991), and many works for piano, organ, and carillon.


Writings



Compositions (selective list)



Music theatre



Solo vocal



Choral



Orchestra



Chamber music



String quartet


Recorder ensemble


Percussion ensemble


Solo instrumental



Piano


Carillon


Organ


Unspecified keyboard instrument


Wind instruments


String instruments


Percussion


Electronic music



Sources


  1. Knockaert, Yves (2001). "Geysen, Frans". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan.
  2. Spanhove 2004, pp. 10–1.
  3. Spanhove 2004, p. 11.





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