Jacob de Haan (composer)
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Jacob de Haan is a Dutch composer. He received his musical education at the State Music Academy in Leeuwarden, where he studied organ and music. As a result, he is now a professor specializing in arrangements in this Academy. Jacob de Haan lives in the city of Rotterdam
(Netherlands) where he works primarily as a composer. It is often required as guest to interpret their own work and as a judge in international competitions. As a guest conductor he has worked among others in Australia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Italy, France and Belgium. Also is a director and producer of several CD-recordings with professional concert bands in the country and abroad. Growing up in a musically oriented family. Thanks to his piano and trumpet lessons he was at an early age, able to develop their creativity as future composer. In the early eighties, when his first works were published, won his first success as a composer of music for concert band. It is famous for his film scores and combinations of styles. Oregon and Ross Roy were his most successful. His repertoire for concert band contest consists of works in varying degrees of difficulty, short concert pieces, popular music and some gears. Additionally he has written several arrangements of classical and choral.
Rotterdam
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(Netherlands) where he works primarily as a composer. It is often required as guest to interpret their own work and as a judge in international competitions. As a guest conductor he has worked among others in Australia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Italy, France and Belgium. Also is a director and producer of several CD-recordings with professional concert bands in the country and abroad. Growing up in a musically oriented family. Thanks to his piano and trumpet lessons he was at an early age, able to develop their creativity as future composer. In the early eighties, when his first works were published, won his first success as a composer of music for concert band. It is famous for his film scores and combinations of styles. Oregon and Ross Roy were his most successful. His repertoire for concert band contest consists of works in varying degrees of difficulty, short concert pieces, popular music and some gears. Additionally he has written several arrangements of classical and choral.
Works
- Abba Gold
- Adagietto
- Adagio (T. Albinoni)
- Ammerland
- Arioso (J. S. Bach)
- Band Time Expert
- Border Zone
- Bridge Between Nations
- Caribbean Variation
- Choral Music
- Concerto d'Amore
- Contrasto Grosso
- Cornfield Rock
- Crazy Music in the Air
- Cut Named Bumpers, Euphonium Solo
- Dakota
- Diogenes
- Discoduction
- Eine Kleine Christmas Music
- Everest (Concert March)
- First Class
- Shepherd Four Songs
- Festa Paesana
- Fox from the North
- Free World Fantasy
- Fresena
- German Love-song
- Grounds
- Hanseatic Suite
- Introitus
- Kraftwerk
- La Storia
- Legend of the Mountain
- Let Me Weep (Lascia ch'io piangaLascia ch'io piangaLascia ch'io pianga is a soprano aria by composer George Frideric Handel which has become a popular concert piece. The melody for the song began its life as an Asian dance in his 1705 opera Almira. As an aria the piece was first used in Handel's 1707 oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno;...
) - Majestic Prelude
- Martini
- Missa Katharina
- Music for a solemnity
- Nerval's Poems
- Nordic Fanfare and Hymn
- Norwegian Songs
- Oregon
- Pacific Dreams
- Pasadena
- Pastorale Symphonique
- Persis Overture
- Pioneers of the Lowlands (march)
- 'Psalm 150' in 'Mijn ziel prijst in Looft de Heer'
- Queen's Park Melody
- Remembrance Day (Totengedenken)
- Ross Roy
- San Diego
- Singapore Rhapsody
- So nimm denn meine Hände (arr. Jacob de Haan)
- Song of Liberation
- Song of Praise
- Stille Nacht (arr.)
- Suite symetrique
- Symphonic Variations
- The Blues Factory
- The Book of Urizen
- The Fields
- The Heart of Lithuania
- The Musical Village
- The Saint and the City
- The Spirit of Christmas
- The Universal Band Collection
- Toccata from
- Totengedenken
- Utopia
- Variazioni in Blue
- Virginia
- Westfort Overture
- Yellow Mountains