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Matthijs Vermeulen - Symphony No. 2 "Prélude à la Nouvelle Journée (1919-1920)

Matthijs Vermeulen (born Matheas Christianus Franciscus van der Meulen) (8 February 1888 – 26 July 1967), was a Dutch composer and music journalist. Symphony No. 2 "Prélude à la Nouvelle Journée (1919-1920) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Otto Ketting Vermeulen's polemic against the unidirectional German orientation of Dutch musical life got him into trouble. After having presented his First Symphony to Willem Mengelberg, whom he much admired, he was disdainfully rejected after a one-year period of keen anticipation. Consequently, Vermeulen's orchestral work did not stand a chance in Amsterdam. The first performance, given by the Arnhem Orchestral Society in March 1919, took place under abominable circumstances and was a traumatic experience. Yet, Vermeulen started to work on his Second Symphony, Prélude à la nouvelle journée, shortly after that, and a year later he gave up journalism in order to fully dedicate himself to composing, while financially backed by some friends. After a last, fruitless appeal to Mengelberg, Vermeulen moved to France with his family in 1921 in the hope of finding a more favorable climate for his music. Vermeulen’s program notes for the premiere by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Eduard van Beinum, in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on 5 July 1956: "The Second Symphony was composed in 1919-1920. For some three years people had been expecting a new day-break for a darkened world, which they are still hoping for. This symphony came into being as a result of the reflections which such expectations awaken in a mind harbouring great faith. Hence the sub-title of the composition: "Prélude à la nouvelle journée". It is a projection into the future without ever looking back. These conditions led to a musical action which develops in five consecutive episodes which, in turn, are active or meditative, like the normal transition from action to dream, and again from dream to action. These five episodes are made of various materials which, though ever different, are always in some way connected with the fundamental idea".