Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen ( 1892 – 1981 ), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen ( 1925 – 1996 ) and Caecilia Andriessen ( 1931 -), and nephew of Willem Andriessen ( 1887 – 1964 ).

Jonathan Harvey was composer in residence, and the festival also featured the Arditti Quartet, Nieuw Ensemble, Louis Andriessen and musikFabrik.

Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen ( 15 November 1925, Haarlem19 August 1996, The Hague ) was a Dutch composer, whose father, Hendrik, brother Louis, and uncle Willem have also been notable composers.

In addition to the theatre works he is most noted for, Andriessen was also a prolific composer of chamber and vocal works, many of which were meant to be performed by amateurs ; he has also been a director for television.

Hoketus was an amplified musical ensemble founded by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in the Netherlands in 1976.

Martland was born in Liverpool, England and studied composition at Liverpool University and in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen.

One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member ( in 1981 ) of The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by British composers composed in the style of such composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.

Grawemeyer Award winner Louis Andriessen was recently featured as was MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran.

In 1995, Louis Andriessen completed the sixth libretto, Rosa – A Horse Drama.

Louis Andriessen ( born Utrecht: June 6, 1939 ) is a composer whose early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post war serialism ( Series, 1958 ), pastiche ( Anachronie I, 1966 – 67 ), and tape ( Il Duce, 1973 ).

* Rosa – A Horse Drama, a 1993-94 opera by Louis Andriessen on a libretto by Peter Greenaway

Significant composers after Andriessen include Klaas de Vries ( b. 1944 ), Jacob Ter Veldhuis, a. k. a. JacobTV ( b. 1951 ), Guus Janssen ( b. 1951 ) and Cornelis de Bondt ( b. 1953 ).

Composers who wrote a called " Missa Solemnis " have included France Ačko ( 1941 ), Hendrik Andriessen ( 1946 ), Marco Betta, František Brixi, Antonio Buonomo ( 1983 ), Alfredo Casella ( 1944 ), Paul Creston, Georg Druschetzky ( 1804 ), Bohumil Fidler ( 1901 ), Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Konstanty Gorski, Michael Haydn ( 1772 ), Václav Emanuel Horák, Sigurd Islandsmoen ( 1954 ), Friedrich Kiel, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Josef Lammerz ( 1990 ), Boleslaw Ocias and Johann Nepomuk Schelble, Wolfgang Seifen, Johann Baptist Vanhal ( 1778 ), Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann ( 1848 ).

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Some scholars have speculated that he may have been a widower since he was a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin, positions in which the social norm of the day required the men to be married.

While tormented with sorrow, sixteen-year-old Catherine was now faced with her parents ' wish that she marry Bonaventura's widower.

Several women who were not presidents ' wives have served as First Lady, as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the First Lady herself.

Coleman was cast in the role of Arnold Jackson in the television sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes, portraying one of two young black brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in Manhattan.

For example, the question of the legality and morality of a widower who wished to marry his deceased wife's sister was the subject of long and fierce debate in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, involving, among others, Matthew Boulton.

At the time of his last stand against the Lancastrians, Richard was a widower without a legitimate son.

Guy was the widower of his father's cousin Sibylla of Jerusalem and was trying to retain the kingship of Jerusalem, despite his wife's death during the Siege of Acre the previous year.

Her only marriage was to Kim Anderson, the widower of her friend Robin Anderson, soon after Robin died of leukemia while Bella Donna was on the top of the charts.

The marriage was unusual because he was a widower of fifty, while the bride was only seventeen.

Gifts or promises had won the support of the Rhenish and Swabian towns ; a marriage alliance secured the friendship of the Habsburgs ; and an alliance with Rudolf II of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, was obtained when Charles, who had become a widower in 1348, married his daughter Anna.

The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the airwaves.

Pliny the Younger married three times, firstly when he was very young, about eighteen, to a stepdaughter of Veccius Proculus, of whom he became a widower at age 37, secondly to the daughter of Pompeia Celerina, at an unknown date and thirdly to Calpurnia, daughter of Calpurnius and granddaughter of Calpurnus Fabatus of Comum.

A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings, the household slave who is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood.

At the time of becoming Prime Minister in December of that year, McEwen was a widower, being the first Australian Prime Minister unmarried during his term of office.

The pact was sealed by marriage of the then widower Bolesław III with the sister of the wife of Vladislaus I, Salomea of Berg.

Although he was Caesar's political enemy, Pompey was a Roman consul and the widower of Caesar's only legitimate daughter, Julia ( who died in childbirth with Pompey's son ).

He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope Simplicius in 483.

" Following Robin's death in 1982, Nicks married Robin's widower Kim Anderson, believing that her friend would want her to care for the baby.

** Mary Plantagenet, married Henry Harman of Ellam, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Harman and widower of certain Agnes.

His son Alfonso II first married Lucrezia, daughter of grand-duke Cosimo I of Tuscany, then after becoming a widower, Barbara, the sister of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1527 – 1576 ) and finally a third wife, Margherita Gonzaga, daughter of the duke of Mantua.

After a transition of seasons ( winter and spring ) the widower married another woman, who had two beautiful daughters of her own ; they were both cruel and wicked.

Once upon a time, there was a widower who married a proud and haughty woman as his second wife.

Cardoso is a widower ( he was married to Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso until her death June 24, 2008 ) and has four children.

Ten years later, the widower Beauregard married Caroline Deslonde, the daughter of André Deslonde, a sugar cane planter from St. James Parish.

* Jane McMechen ( born about 1788 ), who married 1 ) James Taylor in 1806 and 2 ) John Boggs ( widower of her sister Sarah ) in 1853.

Duke Robert became a widower in 1882, and two years later he married Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita's mother.

After being left a widower by the death of his wife, Loma, eleven years earlier, Armstrong married Ramona Martin, a woman nearly fifty years younger, in 1977 and moved to Tucson, Arizona.

He had been a widower since 1917, but in 1920, he married his second wife, Ester Hällström ( 1870 – 1950 ).

The couple married in 1919, when Stalin was already a 41-year-old widower and father of one son, born to his first wife, who died of typhus years earlier.

Her father, Benjamin Mayson, died when she was young and her mother, Elizabeth Jerram, later married Henry Dorling, who was a widower and had four children of his own.

Flanders is a widower, having been married to the equally religious Maude.

On 31 October 1396, at the age of six, Isabella married the widower King Richard II of England in a move for peace with France.

At thirteen, she was engaged to be married to the widower Francois Geoffrin, a lieutenant-colonel of the National Guard and a prosperous general cashier of the Saint-Gobain Venetian mirror manufactory.

Bulgarelli's widower married again.

She married Sir William Henry Gregory, a widower with an estate at Coole Park, near Gort, County Galway, on 4 March 1880, at St Matthias church in Dublin.

Shortly afterwards, Mason and Simon, a widower, fell in love and got married.

However, in 1187, Conrad also left for the East: Isaac II Angelus had offered his sister Theodora to Boniface as a wife, to renew the family's Byzantine alliance, but Boniface had just married for the second time, while Conrad was a recent widower.

On 9 September 1753 his mother married again, to a widower named Brant ( Canagaraduncka ), a Mohawk sachem.