Writing To Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen is a renowned composer of contemporary music in the Netherlands. This publication by composer, editor, and critic Rose Dodd surveys significant works from Andriessen's career and addresses many personal perspectives on his music through critical reflection and celebration. Additionally, it presents a discussion of Andriessen's music by those it has greatly influenced and share affinity for it in their own works, into the next generation and beyond. Within this volume, Ian Pace constructs a two-part historiography of minimal music and its aesthetic narratives, including Andriessen's own challenge to narratives of American exceptionalism.