Jan van Gilse

Jan van Gilse was a Dutch composer and conductor born in Rotterdam in 1881 who began his career in the early 20th century composing orchestral, choral and operatic music broadly situated within late-Romantic and early modern traditions. His oeuvre moved between late-Romantic idioms and early modernist experimentation—integrating chromatic harmony, folkloric motifs and complex choral writing—and he also played a role in Dutch musical life through conducting and teaching during a period of national cultural development.

Releases

400 Years of Dutch Music, Volume 8: Andriessen, Diepenbrock, Van Gilse, Badings

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Nonet / Quartet / Trio

Symphonies 1 & 2

Symphony no. 3

Symphony no. 4 / Concert Ouverture / Funeral Music

Piano Concert “Drei Tanzskizzen” / Variations on a Saint-Nicolas Song

Eine Lebensmesse

Dutch Overtures

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