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Matthijs Vermeulen - Symphony No. 1 "Symphonia Carminum" (1912-1914)

Matthijs Vermeulen Symphony No. 1 "Symphonia Carminum (1912-1914) Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Roelof van Driesten Matthijs Vermeulen was 24 years old when he began to write his first symphony. In the summer of 1912 he went to Eijsden in South Limburg, where he rented a room in a farm, in order to be able to compose in seclusion. It is known that while he was there he put the opening theme on paper and several fragments of other movements. Back in Amsterdam, involved in his work as a reviewer, he made less progress than he had hoped. The next summer he returned to Limburg. This time he stayed in Geulle and in Gulpen where, according to preserved letters, inspiration streamed profusely to him. He completed the work in 1914. The symphony is made up of six continuous movements, within which segments often quickly change mood. It contains an overflow of melodies of an optimistic and sunny character. The work can certainly still be called tonal, but Vermeulen has left traditional harmony far behind him: normal cadences are rarely found in this opus. The harmonies which result from the interweaving of two to six independent melodies, as well as the free handling of the part-writing, repeatedly deliver complex chords which in general are mild and sonorous due to the way they are spread over the sound spectrum of the orchestra. Years later, looking back in retrospect at his work, he gave this characterisation: "The first is still on the border between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before the big shadow fell, and because it mainly expresses the enchanted expectations of the dawn of youth, I named it Symphonia Carminum, symphony of songs, carmen meaning both song and incantation."