In addition to our new website, the Huygens-Fokker Foundation has an extensive online archive, which largely consists of the contents of the former website that had been online since 2008. Although the design of this old website is now somewhat dated, it contains a...
The Fokker organ can be heard on 24 February at Sonic Acts. This festival explores, provides context and presents the most exciting new work by renowned and emerging visual and sound artists. Expect an audiovisual rollercoaster: adventurous, experimental, innovative...
Ever wanted to meet Christiaan Huygens? On the morning of 5 March you’ll have your chance! Huygens’ most relevant work in relation to music, Le Cycle Harmonique (1691), is a concise mathematical treatise in which he named the 31-tone system as the most excellent of...
On 9 October 2022 at 11:00 a.m., a documentary about Leo de Vries (1924–2018) will be shown at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam (and afterwards online), made by Sharis Coppens and Sander Germanus on behalf of the Huygens-Fokker Foundation. De Vries was a violinist,...
The great organ talent Laurens de Man highlights in this concert a fairly unknown side of Arvo Pärt. In Pärt’s oeuvre the organ serves mainly as an accompanying instrument for vocal music, but in the 1980s he also composed a series of works for solo organ. Laurens de...
