Diepenbrock, Alphons

Diepenbrock, Alphons – De Vogels (The Birds), stage music for Aristophanes’ play for solo tenor, narrator, women’s choir and orchestra

(b. Amsterdam, September 2, 1862 – d. Amsterdam, April 5, 1921)

(The Birds)
Stage music for Aristophanes’ play of the same name

Overture (Orchestra) p.3
Song of the Hoopoe. (Tenor and orchestra) p.67
Ballets and Melodramas. (Narrator and orchestra):
I. Mélodrame dansé p.86
II. Parabasis – Strophe p.89
II. Parabasis – Antistrophe p.89
III. Parabasis – Strophe p.94
III. Parabasis – Antistrophe p.97
IV. Finale (Narrator, women’s chorus, and orchestra) p.101

Preface
Although Alphons Diepenbrock was not a professional musician, he was regarded – after Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621), the great composer of the “Dutch Golden Age” – as the first North Dutch composer who could once again be measured by international standards. Diepenbrock grew up in a wealthy family home, which was influenced by Catholicism and placed great emphasis on the cultivation of culture. The boy’s special talent for music was already evident at a young age, and he harbored an early desire to become a conductor and composer. His second great passion was classical languages. Not least at the urging of his father, who was concerned about the uncertainties of a life as a musician, he decided in 1880 to study classical philology at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1888 with a doctoral dissertation written in Latin on Seneca, …

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