Simeon ten Holt (24 January 1923 – 25 November 2012) was a Dutchcontemporary classical composer.

Ten Holt was born inBergen, North Holland, and studied withJakob van Domselaer, eventually developing a highly personal style ofminimal composition. Van Domselaer's influence on ten Holt's musical philosophy was considerable, with the younger composer picking up van Domselaer's interests in the links between music and visual art, inmusic's relationship with mathematics, and in the use of the piano as a principal instrument in his compositions.

Ten Holt generally used consonant, tonal materials and his works are organized in numerous cells, made up of a few measures each, which are repeatedad libitum according to the player's preference. Many of his works are for piano or ensembles of multiple pianos. His most famous work isCanto Ostinato, which he wrote in 1976 and is considered one of the most famous works in contemporary classical Dutch music history.

Ten Holt died 25 November 2012 inAlkmaar, the Netherlands, aged 89.^[1]

• Kompositie I, II, III, IV (1942–1945)
• Sonate (1953)
• 20 Bagatellen (1954)
• Allegro ex machina (1955)
• Diagonaalsuite (1957)
• Muziek voor Pieter, 7 small pieces (1958)
• Diagonaalsonate (1959)
• Soloduiveldans I (1959)
• Epigrammen (1959)
• 5 Etudes (1961)
• Cyclus aan de Waanzin (1961–1962)
• Sekwensen, for 1 or 2 pianos (1965)
• Interpolations (1969)
• 5 Pieces (1970–1972)
• Canto Ostinato (1976–1979)
• Natalon in E (1980)
• Lemniscaat (1982–1983)
• Horizon (1983–1985)
• Soloduiveldans II (1986)
• Incantatie IV, for piano and other instruments (1987–1990)
• Soloduiveldans III (1990)
• Schaduw noch Prooi, for 2 pianos (1993–1995)
• Eadem sed Aliter (hetzelfde maar anders) (1995)
• Méandres, for 4 pianos (1997)
• Soloduiveldans IV (1998)

• Suite, for string quartet (1954–1955)
• Diagonaalmuziek, for strings (1958)
• Quartetto: per archi, for string quartet (1965)
• Differenties, for mixed ensemble, (3 clarinets, piano,vibraphone, 2-11 players) (1969)
• Scenario-X, (2 trumpets, horn,trombone, tuba) (1970)
• Palimpsest, for string septet (4 violins, viola, cello and contrabass) (1990–1992, 1993 revised)
• Capriccio, for solo violin (1999)

• Inferno I & II (1970–1971)
• Module IV (1970–1972)
• I am Sylvia but somebody else (1973)

• ..A/ .TA-LON, formezzo-soprano and 36 instrumentalists who play and speak (1967–1968)
• Koorprojekt 75, for 3 choirs, 4 speakers, electronic music (1975)
• Bi-Ba-Bo for vocal quartet (1980)

• Tripticon, for percussion (1965)
• Kockyn : een kermiskroniek, film music for piano, guitar andmetallophone (1966)
• Centri-fuga for orchestra (1976)^[2]
• Une musique blanche for orchestra (1980–1982)

• Simeon ten Holt
• Simeon ten Holt atIMDb
• Canto Ostinato
• Canto Ostinato, via WQXR

• 1923 births
• 20th-century Dutch classical composers
• 21st-century Dutch classical composers
• École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni
• Dutch male classical composers
• 2012 deaths
• Minimalist composers
• People from Bergen, North Holland
• Pupils of Arthur Honegger
• Pupils of Darius Milhaud

• CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl)
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