To Willem Hofhuizen Satie, Albeniz and De Falla were the main composers to determine his art. One could say that the music is visualised in his paintings. In order to experience this you may click on any composition in this list and you will find that the combination always fits.

An ode to my father. This waltz by Lauro is the ultimate in virtuoso compositions any classical guitarist would like to be able to play. Was not Willem Hofhuizen a virtuoso in his own right?

I remember after our parents’ devorce the steps we used to climb as children at the School for canal-boat children, where my father would welcome us with this tune, only to complete it in the warm atmosphere of his studio.

I seldom feel as many different things as when I listen to Vilvaldi’s adagio. There is a sense of frowning, then one of amazement followed by a sense of deepening when the oboe starts wailing and dancing. There is a resurrection of the arabesque passing into a peaceful ending, a magnificent conclusion reflecting man’s struggle in life.

The piccolo is scratching, like a pen is scratching across a piece of paper, in utter concentration endlessly and indefatigably along flowing lines. The piccolo’s thin sound is as graceful as that of a pen to me.

“To rest” seems to be the landscape’s advice. This sonata by Domenico (also my own first name) gives me this particular feeling. It is robust and yet solemn, rocking and yet pieceful lifting the listener up and then drifting away into recollections. Magnificent.

The cello’s heaving sound perfectly reflects working and thinking.

He discovers.

He experiences.

He reflects.

Although he claims “to have conquered her”, he remains in silent awe.

in happiness,

but unable to intervene,

always.

Strawinsky is Petrusjka.

Like the silence in these paintings.

A Spanish dance and a Spanish Poet.

The clay tablet is the most ancient piece of “sheet music” we know of, dating back to 408 BC., and probably made by Euripides himself to accompany the theatre play “Orestes”.

Paris, Athena, Hera and Aphrodite: together a quartet. The tempting sound of the flute is proverbial.

Here is a human voice after all (Benjamin Luxon). To me it feels like an ending, but not a final ending.

It is in the film “Shawshank Redemption” that Morgan Freeman utters his astonishment as he hears the duet being poured out over the entire prison. “I don’t know what these women are singing, but it brings colour and light into the darkness of our prison". So did Willem Hofhuizen.

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