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Inventio voor hobo en viool

By Marius Flothuis

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
Oboe|Violin (ob vl)
year
1981
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 351/152
dedication

For Werner and Vera at the occasion of the birth of Katja Mira

Details

Inventio for oboe and violin

About Marius Flothuis

Marius Flothuis

Marius Flothuis led an eventful life. Early on, he was politically aware and left-wing orientated. He lost his job at the Concertgebouw Orchestra on his refusal to register with the Kultuurkamer, a regulatory cultural agency installed by the German occupying forces during World War II. He was arrested for his resistance work, imprisoned in Camp Vught and deported to Sachsenhausen in 1944. Meanwhile, he continued composing and survived the hardships. In the postwar Dutch and international music worlds he held numerous positions.

by Joyce Kiliaan