Alphons Diepenbrock

Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock (September 2 1862 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - April 5, 1921) was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.

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September 2 - 1862 - Amsterdam - April 5 - 1921

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He studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. As composer he had been completely self-taught from an early age.

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Latin - Seneca

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He created a musical idiom whitch, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to whitch in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy's music.

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Wagnerian - Debussy

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His predominantly vocal output is distinguished by the high quality of texts used. Apart from the ancient Greek dramatists and Latin church text, he was inspired by, among others, Goethe, Novalis, Vondel, Brentano, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Verlaine.

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Goethe - Novalis - Vondel - Brentano - Hölderlin - Heine - Nietzsche - Baudelaire - Verlaine

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