Lucien Posman


Lucien Posman is a Belgian composer.
Lucien Posman is honorary professor composition, counterpoint and fugue at the Royal Conservatory of the University College Ghent. He is founder and honorary chairman of ComAV, the Flemish composers' association and member of The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He was co-founder in and artistic collaborator of De Rode Pomp, a chamber music platform in Ghent managed by his brother André Posman. He studied music theory and composition at the Royal Conservatories of Ghent and Antwerp. His mentor for composition was Roland Coryn, Nini Bulterys for counterpoint & fugue. He composed a symphony, an opera, concertos, chamber music for various ensembles and a relatively large number of vocal works, mostly using poetry by William Blake. As composer he is a representative of postmodernism and has an important voice in this debate in Flanders. Some of his works have been awarded composition prizes. Posman's works have been performed at many national and international festivals.
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Compositions

Instrumental

  • Solo: piano: Reynaert & de Pauw ; Misverstand 1002 ; Een slaapmutsje, ; Le Conte de L’Etude Modeste Oeioeioeioeioei ; 12 dodecaphonic Shooting Prayers. .organ: Vlas ; Meditatio Florida ; .harpsichord: Heden aan 40% ; .carillon: Bejaard ; .flute: Ebaux, ; .violin: Wachten op de Molenberg ; .saxophone: Marsyas’ Zwanezang on sax ; .clarinet: Gamaka ; .violoncello: Color & Silence ; 22
  • Duo: Ambrass for solo brass instrument & piano ; Pizziola & Pizziello for viola & violoncello ; Bicellium, for 2 celli ; Op Hol for cello en bassoon
  • Trio: Thelema Capers, for clarinet, baritonsax & piano ; Illuminations,  for 2 piccolo's & piano ; Trio for violin, cello & piano
  • Quartet: Elegie, for string quartet, in memoriam Vic Nees ;O! Zon, string quartet  ; Mijnhere van Maldegem, variations for sax- quartet  
  • Quintet: Geen noodt, sapperloodt !, quintet for flute & string quartet ; Nocturne for flute & string quartet ; Nocturne voor klarinet en strijkers ; Blaaskwintet, for wind quintet 
  • Sextet: For Gilberto Mendes
  • Septet: De laatste hooivracht ; Die Kürze,
  • Nonet: De Pauw ; Erik, Gustav, Maurice, Arnold, Scott, Igor, Charles, Claude en «De Dwaze Maagd, nonet for woodwinds
  • Orchestre / concerto: Symfonie een ; Concerto for piano & string orchestra ; Concerto for violin, string orchestra, vibraphone & marimba ; Concerto piccolo, for piano en & string orchestra ; Wheel within wheel… concerto-cantata for soprano, trombone & large instrumental ensemble ; Concerto-cantate for clarinet & choir, piano and percussion

Vocal works – a capella: non-Blake

  • 3-part equal voices: 3 souterliedekens, 3-part equal voices
  • 4-part male choir:  Elaba
  • 4-part mixed choir: Chatterlach@Home 2020; Tijd ; Ushururu for mixed choir ; All too short a date, Hälfte des Lebens ; Litanie, ; Omittamus studia ; IOB XXIX 2-4 ; Au commencement

Vocal works – a capella: Blake

  • 3-part female choir / equal voices: To Morning for 3-part female choir / equal voices
  • 4-part mixed choir:
  • The Blossom ; The Divine Image ; Spring ; A Dream ; a golden string, ; To the Evening Star ; ODE TO THE SEASONS, : To Spring; To Summer; To Autumn; To Winter. 10 ‘SONGS of EXPERIENCE’ : The Clod & the Pebble; Holy Thursday; The little Girl Lost; The little Girl Found; The Chimney Sweeper; The little Vagabond; Infant Sorrow; A Poison Tree; To Tirzah; The School Boy; 5 ‘SONGS of EXPERIENCE’ for professional mixed choir : The Human abstract; The Sick Rose; London; The Angel; The Voice of the Ancien Bard

Chamber opera

  • Hercules Haché, the adventure of a professor!

Vocal works with accompaniment

  • voice & narrator : Paris  
  • voice & piano: In een donkere nacht,, for middle voice piano ; Grotesque, for high voice & piano ; Amria for voice & piano ; een gevoel van raam, for high voice & piano ; Gij Rookers, gij snuivers for high voice & piano ; De Vermoeienis, for high voice & piano & the public ; 5 SONGS OF EXPERIENCE for middle voice  & piano : Introduction; Earth's Answer; The Fly; Nurses Song; Ah! Sun-flower; Infant Joy for high voice & piano
  • voice & harp: The Little Black Boy  ; Infant Joy  ; A CRADLE SONG
  • voice & 2 instruments: Dear Janey for soprano, violin & marimba ; 5 ‘SONGS OF EXPERIENCE’ for high voice oboe & piano : A little Boy Lost; My Pretty Rose Tree; The Lilly; The Garden of Love; A little Girl Lost
  • voice & 3 instruments: The Mental Traveller for soprano & recorder trio ; anacura, inauguration cantata for soprano & string quartet
  • voice & 7 instruments: The Book of Thel for middle & ensemble
  • voice & 10 instruments: De Vlaamsche Leeuw, arrangement voor sopraan en ensemble ; Het Belgisch Volkslied, arrangement voor sopraan en ensemble
  • & strings; Love by fortune sent ‘… the shades of nighttime…’ song for voice & string orchestra
  • voice & 15 instruments: Ik treur niet for voice & ensemble
  • voice & 17 instruments: Wheel within Wheel concerto-cantata for soprano, trombone & large ensemble

Two voice and piano

  • Drie Gisekin Liederen, for soprano, mezzo & piano

Choir and …

  • female choir & harp: Vier liederen ; The Little Boy Lost 2019; The Little Boy Found
  • male choir & harp: The Shepherd.
  • mixed choir & harp: The Ecchoing Green ; Laughing Song ; HOLY THURSDAY
  • mixed choir & accordion : ’t Es overal iet,  a plaintive march
  • mixed choir & piano: An die Parzen mixed choir & piano ; What Then, voor koor & piano

Soloist(s), choir and …

  • soprano mixed choir & harp: Introduction ; The Lamb ; The Chimney Sweeper ; Night ; Nurses Song ; On Anothers Sorrow
  • 2 sopranos, mixed choir & harpsichord: The Tyger
  • soprano, mixed choir & piano: Wilder Rosenbusch
  • SSA-solo, mixed choir & violoncello : Shepherd songs: 
  • soprano, mixed choir, flute, piano: The Book of Los  a cantata ; Wilder Rosenbusch song for soprano, choir, vl., timp. & piano ; The Elephant for soprano, 6-part choir & piano ; Ode XXXII for soprano, mixed choir & ensemble in collaboration with Octaaf Van Geert en Daniel Gistelinck