Dutch Composers's video: Gilius van Bergeijk - Zu Tee Tanz

Gilius van Bergeijk (1946) Zu Tee & Tanz : for harpsichord (1987) Annelie de Man, harpsichord Gilius van Bergeijk is a Dutch composer. From 1966 to 1972 he studied the oboe and the alto saxophone at the Hague Conservatory; there he also studied composition with van Baaren and electronic music with Raaijmakers. In 1972 he began lecturing on electronic music at the Conservatory. He has also held various administrative positions in the field of Dutch music. In 1987 he was awarded the Ooyevaer Prize. Van Bergeijk has composed both instrumental and electronic music including works for ballet, film and theatre. His music, often tragic and bitter in its effect, often uses deconstructive procedures and he often selects well-known works for this treatment in order to make the process understandable to the listener. Demontage, for example, incorporates themes by Handel and Thelonious Monk, while Over de dood en de tijd is based on Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen. Instead of using modern digital techniques in his electronic pieces he restricts himself to analogue splicing methods. He does this out of a craftsmanlike conviction that the imperfection of manual work gives the music its necessary vitality.