Daan Manneke (1939)

Fructus for Sytze : Voor countertenor. - Met bourdon-toon (orgelpunt) ad lib. (1998)

Sytse Buwalda, countertenor
Zvi Maschkowski, cello

dedicated to Sytze Buwalda


Daan Manneke is a Dutch composer, conductor and organist. At the Brabant Conservatory of Music in Tilburg he studied the organ with Hub Houët and Louis Toebosch and composition with Jan van Dijk (1963--1967). Later on he studied the organ with Kamiel d'Hooghe in Brussels and composition with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam. In 1972 he began teaching (improvisation and analysis of 20th-century music) at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he is now a highly regarded teacher of composition. He is founder and conductor of the chamber choir Cappella Breda. His prizes and awards include the Prize for Young Artists from the Province of Zeeland (1967), the Fonteyn Tuynhout Prize (Three Times, 1977), the Hilvarenbeekse Muziekprijs in 1980 for Pneoo and the City of Tilburg's composition prize in 1985 for Er vallen stukken for carillon. In 1999 he was awarded the Cultuurprize of the province of Noord Brabant.
His compositions vary in character from the aggressive quality of Diaphony for Geoffrey, a testimony to his affinity with Varèse and Xenakis, to the diatonic, gentler sound of Messe de Notre Dame in which he seeks a mood of consolation. A celebrator of live performance, he stresses the fact that the spatial effects incorporated in his music cannot be experienced through a commercial recording. His important Archipel series is inspired by the difference in identity of the people of the various islands of Zeeland.

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