Marius Monnikendam

Synopsis

Dutch composer, organist, critic and teacher

• 1896 born in Haarlem, the Netherlands
• attended the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he studied piano, organ, and composition.
• received a state grant for study in Paris at the Schola Contorum with Vincent d’Indy and Louis Aubert.
• 1927-32 taught composition and analysis at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Amsterdam Conservatory.
• 1933 became music critic and editor for the Rotterdam Catholic newspaper, De Maasbode, where he worked for over 30 years.
• 1946 became a regular contributor to the new music journal Mens en melodie.
• 1977 died in Heerlen, the Netherlands.

Monnikendam's compositional style centered around a single idea in each work, which could be a chant melody, a folksong, or a rhythmic ostinato. His organ works include concertos, the Toccata no.2 (1970) and Postludium super FeikE (A)sma (1974). Corliss Arnold mentions his Toccata and Cortege. Arnold says Monnikendam's work is tonal with interesting harmonies and dissonances, modality, and frequent use of parallel 4ths.

For details, see the Wikipedia article on Marius Monnikendam.

List of Organ Works

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Title	Year
Toccata	(1936)
Tema con variazione per la notte di natale	(1951) - dedicated to Flor Peeters
Choral	(1951)
Toccata	(1957)
Inventiones 10	(1959)
Marcia funebre	(1959)
Rondeña for pedal organ and timpani	(1960)
Sonata da Chiesa	(1961)
Cortège	(1963)
Toccata II	(1970)
Two themes with variations , variations of "Frere Jacques" and "Veni Creator Spiritus"	(1971)
Prelude "The Bells"	(1972)
Fugue sur les petits et les grands jeux	(1974)
Postlude (super Feike (A) Asma)	(1974)
Invocatio	(1975)
Voluntary	(1975)
Toccate concertante	(1976)
Toccate pent costa - "Veni Sancte Spiritus, et emitte caelitus lucis tuae radium"	(1977)
12 Inventions	year
Choral	year
Title	year

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