Otto Ketting (1935) Printemps : Souvenirs du printemps (2001) Radio Kamer Philharmonie Conductor: Thierry Fischer Dedicated to Henk Guittart and the Schönberg and Mondriaan Kwartet. Otto Ketting studied the trumpet at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and then received lessons in composition from his father, Piet Ketting. In 1954 he became a trumpeter with the Hague Resedentie-Orkest, but in 1961 he abandoned his post to study composition with Hartmann in Munich. Afterwards he devoted himself largely to composing, becoming a lecturer in composition at both the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory. Ketting has also been active as a conductor, chiefly of 20th-century music. His works have received numerous awards, including Due canzoni (Gaudeamus Prize, 1958), Time Machine (Kees van Baaren Prize, 1973), the Symphonie voor saxofoons en orkest (Matthijs Vermeulen Prize, 1979) and the Symphony no.3 (Barlow Prize, 1992). In addition, the Amsterdam Muziektheater was officially opened in 1986 with the première of Ketting's opera Ithaka. In the early, sober and introverted Due canzoni (1957) and the exuberant First Symphony (1957--9), the influences of Webern and Berg (both at the time still rarely heard in the Netherlands) are skillfully moulded to Ketting's own ends. Notable is the tension between horizontal and vertical aspects, between serialism and unambiguous tonal points of emphasis. This co-existence of atonality and tonality has remained a characteristic ...
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