Jakob van Domselaer

Jakob van Domselaer (1890-1960), a Dutch composer, was born in the town of Nijkerk on April 15, 1890. In 1912 van Domselaer traveled to Paris where he met the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), eventually becoming a part of Mondrian's artistic circle known as "De Stijl." Van Domselaer's piano suite Proeven van Stijlkunst (Experiments in Artistic Style, 1913-17) represented the first attempt to apply principles of Neo-Plasticism to music. This austere, mathematically based music represents an important but as yet unacknowledged precedent to minimalism and has been little performed or recorded.

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1890 - 1960 - Dutch - Nijkerk - April 15 - 1912 - Piet Mondrian - 1872 - 1944 - De Stijl - Minimalism

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Van Domselaer's students have included the Dutch composers Nico Schuyt (1922-1992) and Simeon ten Holt (b. 1923).

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Nico Schuyt - 1922 - 1992 - Simeon ten Holt - 1923

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