Ton de Leeuw - Concerto for two Guitars and 12 Strings

Ton de Leeuw: Concerto pour deux guitares et douze instruments à cordes : 1987-88. Rody van Gemert & Mikko Ikäheimo - guitars, Jyri Nissila - conductor, La Tempesta Orchestra Live recording from the Sibelius Academy Concert Hall Guitars: Sumio Kurosawa 2005 & Paul Sheridan 2000 Ton de Leeuw was born on November 16, 1926 in Rotterdam. He died on May 31, 1996 in Paris (France). In 1949, after some years of composition lessons with Henk Badings, he went to Paris to study with Olivier Messiaen (analysis) and Thomas de Hartmann (orchestration). His early interest for non-Western music brought him to Jaap Kunst and the ethnomusicology department at the Amsterdam University (1950-1954). From 1954 to 1959 he was music director at the Dutch Radio Union. From 1959 to 1986 he was engaged with the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, first as composition teacher and head of the electronic studio, lat