Simeon ten Holt

Play Radio
Listen to Simeon ten Holt Radio, featuring artists like Jeroen van Veen, Kees Wieringa & Polo De Haas, Pianos, Terry Riley, Morton Feldman and more…

186,137 plays (3,718 listeners)

Send Simeon ten Holt Ringtones to Cell
Buy
Add to my Library

Simeon ten Holt (born in Bergen, Netherlands, 24 January 1923) is a Dutch composer. Ten Holt studied with Jakob van Domselaer, eventually developing a highly personal style of composition. Ten Holt generally uses consonant, tonal materials and his works are organized in numerous cells, made up of a few measures each, which are repeated ad libitum according to the player’s preference.

Many of Ten Holt’s works (as, for example, Canto Ostinato) employ harmonies quite similar to those used by European composers of the Romantic period. Thus, his style of minimal composition is truly European in its orientation and has been little influenced by North American minimal composers, whose works draw more often on rock, jazz, and world musics.

Van Domselaer’s influence on ten Holt’s musical philosophy has been considerable, with the younger composer picking up van Domselaer’s interests in the links between music and visual art, in music’s relationship with mathematics, and in the use of the piano as a principal instrument in his compositions. Indeed, many of ten Holt’s works are for piano or ensembles of multiple pianos.

One of the best known interpreters of the music of Simeon ten Holt is the Dutch pianist Kees Wieringa. He has recorded several CDs of ten Holt’s music.
Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: , , , ,  See more

Share this artist:

Top Albums

Top Tracks

1  
11
1  
11
3  
10
3  
10
3  
10
6  
9
6  
9
8  
8
8  
8
10  
7
10  
7
12  
6
12  
6
12  
6
12  
6
Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).

  • Soppeh

    Beautiful <3

    November 2011

  • magneticB

    Brilliant, I'd highly recommend Palimpsest.

    October 2011

  • serenityQn

    Какой он интересный. Прекрасные работы.

    June 2011

  • llex

    волшебник

    May 2011

  • Jarry

    Canto ostinato @ World minimal music festival was really good

    April 2011

  • InASafePlace

    tag using musicbrainz. It's easy this way. Browse my Ten Holt library and use the same tags!

    March 2011

  • fansenga

    Having come to ten Holt via Douwe Eisenga and then the YouTube clips of Canto Ostinato, I took the plunge and bought the Complete Multiple Piano Music set. I've been listening to it for about 2 months solid now and am totally bowled over. There's an unbelievable amount to enoy here. Minimal music? Depends on what you mean by minimal: there's a wealth of subtle changes going on all the time, in front and behind, if you're prepared to take the time to really relax and LISTEN. Time just flows by, and the music carries you along and does in fact keep you happy. I really recommend Canto Ostinato and Horizon, though Shadow nor Prey doesn't do all that much for me. Why is ten Holt not better known? Probably because most people nowadays haven't the time or the stamina to sit and listen to one piece of music for 90 minutes or more. Shame on modern high-speed society!

    February 2011

  • Synopsis-Decay

    After all these years of listening, still in total awe...

    December 2010
See all 20 shouts

Videos

Top Listeners

See more

More Information

Links