Name: Vincent Martig
Main Subject: Classical Clarinet
Research supervisor: Herman Jeurissen
Title of Research: The "Haagse School" and Clarinet
Research Question:
“How did the Haagse School develop, and which compositions for clarinet did it bring forth?”
Summary of Results
After the second World War, something was growing in the Dutch compositional landscape: a reaction to Schoenberg and the romantic music on the one hand, and the American minimalism on the other. This reaction obtained its clearest form at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, with first Kees van Baaren and his students, and later Louis Andriessen with his fellow composers and his ensembles (Hoketus, for example). Because of the string characteristics of this reaction, the composition department in The Hague was labelled the “Haagse School”, but in my paper, I investigate how these characteristics are merely superficial, and there is a much broader view to the Haagse School than you would expect. Afterwards, I look at the list of clarinet compositions from The Hague, just to see that there are not many, and the ones we have, are very difficult to obtain (both recordings and sheet music). Making these pieces more well known might also give a stimulus to new composers from The Hague, to write for clarinet. For this paper I had e-mail contact and interviews with several composers and musicologists who were (remotely) connected to The Hague and its composition department.
Biography:
Vincent Martig started playing the clarinet when he was eight years old. Since August 2012, Vincent has been studying at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, now in 2nd year Master, with Pierre Woudenberg. In conservatory and student orchestras, Vincent played under Jac van Steen, Susanna Mälkki, and Valery Gergiev. He received masterclasses from Chen Halevi, Ralph Manno, and Olivier Patey. In recent years, Vincent has also taken up composing, arranging, and conducting.
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