• General information
  • Composition date : 1991
    
  • Duration : 10 mn
  • Editor : Boosey & Hawkes

• Type
  • Musique de chambre [Quatuor avec cordes pincées]

Creation information

• Date : 3 November 1991
  Location :

  Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Théâtre Frascati

  
  Performers :

  Loos.

Hout (Wood) was written for Loos at the request of Dirk Simons. Although the whole work is in principle a strict canon, the successive voices are so close together that it is more like a unison melody with ramifications.

Ramifications and branches are the same word in Dutch. This especially refers to the branches of a tree, so the use of wooden instruments - marimba and woodblocks - help explain the title of the work.

Louis Andriessen.