Peter Schat
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Peter Schat (June 5, 1935, in Utrecht - February 10, 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer.
In the 1950s, while studying with Kees van Baaren at the conservatories of Utrecht and The Hague, Schat created his opus 1, Passacaglia and Fugue for organ (1954), and Septet (1957). In 1957 he also won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award.
From 1960 he studied with Pierre Boulez in Basel. In 1967 he co-founded the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam. Among his most widely noted works are Thema (from 1970) and To You (from 1972). To You was performed at the Holland Festival.
The 1970s also brought Schat's most distinctive contribution to 20th century music, the Tone Clock. He developed his tonality ideas further into a book with a similar title (ISBN 3-7186-5369-9).
Schat died in 2003 from cancer.
[edit] Composition
- Chamber music
- Octet (1958)
- Improvisations and symphonies (1960)
- Signalement (1961)
- First essay on electrocution (1966)
- Hypothema (1969)
- Choir music
- The fall (1960)
- The fifth season (1973)
- Breath (1984)
- An Indian requiem (1995)
- Opera and music theater
- Houdini (1977)
- Aap verslaat de knekelgeest (1980)
- Symposion (1989)
- Piano music
- Variations (1956)
- Inscriptions (1959)
- Anathema (1969)
- Polonaise (1981)
- Other
- Passacaglia en Fuga (1954)
- Thema (1970)
- To you (1972)
- Canto General
- Kind en Kraai
- De Hemel (1991)
