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Matthijs Vermeulen - Cello Sonata No. 2 (1927)

Matthijs Vermeulen (born Matheas Christianus Franciscus van der Meulen) (8 February 1888 – 26 July 1967), was a Dutch composer and music journalist. Second Sonata for Cello and Piano (1927 / 1937-38) Anner Bijlsma, cello and Reinbert de Leeuw, piano There is a period of ten years between the conception of the two movements of the Second Sonata for Cello and Piano. Vermeulen started the work in the spring of 1927, shortly after the premiere in Paris of the First Cello Sonata, published by Senart. That summer Vermeulen was forced to put aside the composition of the new sonata when he was in the middle of the first movement, as he was fully occupied with journalistic work. It was not until January 1937 that he resumed composing. On 9 August he got to the end of the first movement; the second movement was only completed on 29 August of the next year. The high register of the cello part in the second movement is remarkable. Vermeulen was inspired to use this register of this instrument by the Dutch cellist Henk van Wezel, who he had heard playing the concerto by Saint-Saëns in a French radio broadcast in March 1937. Van Wezel's tone proved to him that it is possible "to sing and to be expressive in every register" of this instrument. Vermeulen dedicated the work to Van Wezel. The more tonal slant of the second movement no doubt has something to do with the criticism on the 'dissonance' in his Third Symphony that Vermeulen had received from Pierre Monteux (expert on new music) in 1929. The score of De Vliegende Hollander (1930) also shows that Vermeulen had consciously started to try to integrate tonal elements in his music.