Bernard van Dieren
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Sheet music for Bernard van Dieren
Van Dieren: Chinese Symphony — BBC National Orchestra of Wales
— CD (1 disc) — Classical
By BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Chorus of Wales, Rebecca Evans, Catherine Wyn Rogers, Nathan Vale, Morgan Pearse, David Soar, Raphael Wallfisch, and William Boughton. By Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936). Country of Origin: United Kingdom. Classical. CD (1 disc). Published by Naxos (NX.SRCD357).
Price: $18.00
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies No. 3 & 4 — David Bernard; Park Avenue Chamber Symphony; David Bernard
— listening CD — Classical
By David Bernard; Park Avenue Chamber Symphony; David Bernard. By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Country of Origin: United States. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.RC2057019).
Price: $18.00
May the Lord Bless and Keep You — Bernard Sexton
Choir,SATB,SATB (unison) + solo ww. Accompanied — Score — 21st Century,Contemporary Christian,Wedding
Composed by Bernard Sexton. 21st Century, Contemporary Christian, Wedding. Score. 6 pages. Published by Bernard Sexton (S0.21016).
Price: $3.00
Laudate Omnes Gentes — Bernard Sexton
Choir,SATB,Choir(congregation) + organ — Score — 21st Century,Christian,Sacred
Composed by Bernard Sexton. 21st Century, Christian, Sacred. Score. 4 pages. Published by Bernard Sexton (S0.21616).
Price: $1.00
Requiem (Sad Funeral Piano) — Frederic Bernard
Piano Solo,Easy Piano — Sheet Music Single — 21st Century,Contemporary Classical,Minimalism,Movies,Funeral
Composed by Frederic Bernard. 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Minimalism, Movies, Funeral. Sheet Music Single. 3 pages. Published by Frederic Bernard (S0.232927).
Price: $3.00
Carlotta's Portrait From Vertigo — Bernard Herrmann
— Piano Solo — Film/TV
By Bernard Herrmann. By Bernard Herrmann. This edition: Interactive Download. Film/TV. Piano Solo. 4 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music (HX.332135).
Price: $3.00
Sorrow (Bittersweet Solo Piano) — Frederic Bernard
Piano Solo,Easy Piano — Individual Part,Sheet Music Single — 21st Century,20th Century,Minimalism,Technique Training,Old-time
Composed by Frederic Bernard. 21st Century, 20th Century, Minimalism, Technique Training, Old-time. Individual Part, Sheet Music Single. 3 pages. Published by Frederic Bernard (S0.254247).
Price: $3.00
The Sad Snow-Queen (Melancholic Solo Piano) — Frederic Bernard
Piano Solo — Sheet Music Single — 21st Century,Romantic Period,Contemporary Classical,Neo-Classical,Funeral
Composed by Frederic Bernard. 21st Century, Romantic Period, Contemporary Classical, Neo-Classical, Funeral. Sheet Music Single. 3 pages. Published by Frederic Bernard (S0.233985).
Price: $3.00
Prayer - John Henry Cardinal Newman — Bernard Sexton
Choir,SATB — — 21st Century,Spiritual,Sacred
Composed by Bernard Sexton. 21st Century, Spiritual, Sacred. 4 pages. Published by Bernard Sexton (S0.21018).
Price: $1.00
May Your Love Be Upon Us (Psalm 32) — Bernard Sexton
Choir,SATB,SATB+soloist — Score — 21st Century,Christian,Wedding
Composed by Bernard Sexton. 21st Century, Christian, Wedding. Score. 3 pages. Published by Bernard Sexton (S0.21612).
Price: $3.00
Although Bernard van Dieren is not, and never has been well known to the
concert going public, he has been highly praised in the writings of many
musicians. Constant Lambert, in the preface to the second edition of "Music
Ho"(1936), described him as one of the two major musicians of the day, the
other being Alban Berg; and Sorabji (in "Mi contra fa") stated that his
intellectual and artistic greatness could only be compared with da Vinci or
Michelangelo, and to those few who knew his work regarded him as "one of the
supreme masters of modern times".
His compositions include two symphonies,
an opera : The Tailor, two violin sonatas, some piano pieces and many songs.
His choral Chinese Symphony uses the same poems as Mahler used in Das Lied von
der Erde. The first performance was conducted by Constant Lambert, using a copy
of the score which had been made by Peter Warlock, who was another musician
greatly influenced by and devoted to the music of van Dieren.
An almost complete list of his compositions can be found in the 2001 edition of
Grove’s Dictionary of music and
musicians. One piano composition not included in Grove is his "6
Skizzen", which were published by Universal Edition of Vienna in 1921. Two
further piano works were published in England by the Oxford University Press :
"12 Netherlands Melodies" and "Tema con Variazione" (1st published in 1927 and
1928). Of these especially the (simple 8 bar) Theme and 14 Variations repay
study if a copy can be found.
Christened Bernard Helene Joseph, van Dieren was born of a Dutch father and a
Dutch/French mother. As a child he studied the violin, but at school was
trained for a scientific career. In 1908, when he left school he took up music
full time, as a largely self taught composer. In 1909, he left The Netherlands
to follow Frida Kindler (who was a pianist who had studied with Busoni) to
London where he married her in 1910. In 1911 and 1912 he visited Berlin as a
music correspondent. While there he met Schönberg and Busoni, with whom he
long remained a friend. From 1912 until the end of his life he suffered from
renal calculi, and was frequently confined to bed with very severe attacks of
renal pain. Sorabji in his book "Mi Contra Fa", chapter 19, writes
affectionately both as an admirer and friend, and describes a highly
intellectual, brave and kind man.
Apart from composition, he wrote many
essays on music, some of which were published in the book "Down among the Dead
Men"(OUP 1935), in which he writes readably sometimes amusingly, as well as
approvingly on such unfashionable subjects as the Operas of Meyerbeer.
Although his complex music has never been and is not likely to
become popular or be widely performed, much of it is highly original and will
certainly repay study by the serious musician.