Alphons Diepenbrock, The life, times and music of a Dutch Romantic Composer

Author: Leo Samama
Publisher: Toccata Press, 2023
Price: Hardcover £60.00 / $85.00, Ebook (EDPF) £19.99 / $24.95
Available via BoydellandBrewer.com

Contents:
The music of the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) is one of the glories of European late-Romantic culture, although is hardly known outside his native Netherlands.

Diepenbrock’s life and his music are deeply intertwined: self-taught as a composer, he was a classics tutor by profession, a Catholic with a fondness for religious mysticism and one of the leading Dutch intellectuals of his day, with Mahler, Schoenberg and Richard Strauss among his circle of friends.

Leo Samama’s richly illustrated study of Diepenbrock sets him and his music in the context of their times, this translation opening up an important chapter of European history to non-Dutch-speaking readers for the first time.