incipit
 
 
A birthday present for my father in 1991. The title intends to tease him with his hero, the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Huygens revealed to us his remarkable opinion about music: composers, writing music in a (complex) contrapuntal fashion, were following the wrong way (“ne sont pas sur le bon chemin”), according to our famous scientist.
 
Duration of  Huygens’ way :  1' 11
 
 
Christiaan Huygens:   Hendrik de Lang (studying):
huygens

engraving by Frederik Ottens

   hendrik_de_lang

photo by Eltjo de Lang
 
Sheet music:
  huygens_way_score_pdf   huygens_way_parts_pdf
  Score   Parts
(left pages 2nd, right pages 1st part)
 
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