Johan de Meij

La Quintessenza is a musical approach of the quintessence, the heart of the matter. By focusing a five note motif in a number of variants, De Meij tries to get through to the essence of the musical ma...

La première symphonie de Johan de Meij,'The Lord of the Rings' (Le Seigneur des anneaux), est fondée sur la trilogie éponyme de J.R.R. Tolkien. Depuis leur parution, en 1955, ces livres ont fasciné de...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

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Marche Americana owes a great deal to those heroic movie marches by composers in the like of John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, and others. In fact, you could say that it is a brash film t...

This lively new work, expertly arranged by Johan de Meij, is taken from the soundtrack of the recently released animated film Till Eulenspiegel. In writing the music for the film the composer, Søren H...

Le groupe vocal suédois de pop mélodique ABBA a connu un succès mondial inouï après avoir emporté le Grand Prix de l'Eurovision en 1974 avec 'Waterlo'. Johan de Meij éta it l'un des tous premiers à ar...

Aucun groupe de musique populaire n'a jamais égalé le succès des Beatles, groupe formé en 1959 par quatre garçons, originaires de Liverpool. Entre-temps, la musique écrite par John Lennon et PaulMc Ca...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...

Johan de Meijs third symphony, Planet Earth, unmistakeably marksa new peak in his large musical output. The symphonic version waspremiered in 2006 and has now been arranged for wind orchestra by the c...