Alexander Voormolen (1895 - 1980)

The influence of the great musical capitals is reflected in various ways in the aesthetics of individual composers. Alexander Voormolen, after being a pupil of Johann Wagenaar in Utrecht, continued his studies in Paris with Albert Roussel from 1916, attracting the attention of Maurice Ravel. In 1921, he wrote Le Souper clandestin in The Hague, consisting of Introduction, Valse et Fox-Trot, a typical example of his ‘French period’ in which his refined harmonic research predominated over the later neo-Classical (and neo-Flemish) melodic line.