Cromwell Everson (1925-1991) (born Beaufort West, South Africa) was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner his mother was Maria De Wit and father Robert Everson. He continue this tradition and all his children was brought up as Afrikaners. Beaufort West is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. ... Afrikaners are a European ethnic group primarily associated with Southern Africa and the Afrikaans language. ...

Everson wrote the first Afrikaans opera and most of his other vocal works was in Afrikaans. His works consists of five sonatas, a trio, an opera, a set on inventions, four song-cycles, a piano suite, miscellaneous movements for the piano and guitar and a incomplete symphony and string quartet.

Compositions

Vocal Works

Opera

• Klutaimnestra eng:Clytemnestra (Libretto, Cromwell Everson), Afrikaans opera in four acts (1967). First performance 7 November 1967, Biesenbach Hall, Worcester, Western Cape
• Rat a Plan (Libretto, unannotated), incomplete chamber opera (1952).

Murder of Agamemnon, Painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Worcester, South Africa is a town situated about 120 km from Cape Town, in the Breede River Valley. ...

Choral

• Kyrie Eleison, SATB (1952)

Song Cycles

• Vier Liefdesliedjies ("four love songs") for soprano and piano (1949). First performance on 9 June 1955 in the Stellenbosch Conservatory of Music. First radio broadcast performance on 11 January 1960 (Switzerland).
  1. Nagliedjie (N.P. van Wyk Louw)
  2. Net altyd jy (N.P. van Wyk Louw)
  3. Nooit Nog (W.E.G. Louw)
  4. Dennebosse (N.P. van Wyk Louw.

• Kontraste (D.J. Opperman) (1951)
• Water en Woestyn (1955) re-titled Die Dobbelsteen
• Three Brontë Songs (1987)

Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (b. ... Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (b. ... William Ewart Gladstone van Wyk Louw, who published (and is almost universally known) as W.E.G. Louw, (born May 31, 1913 in Sutherland, formerly Cape Province, now Northern Cape Province in South Africa; died April 24, 1980 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province, South Africa) was an Afrikaans-language poet. ... Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (b. ... Diederik Johannes Opperman, (1914 - 1985) was one of the best-known Afrikaans poets. ...

Solo Songs

• Maria (W.E.G. Louw) for soprano and piano (1949)
• Nagstorm oor die see (D.J. Opperman) for dramatic soprano and piano (1950)
• Die Vreemde Dae (Elisabeth Eybers) for soprano and piano (1949)

William Ewart Gladstone van Wyk Louw, who published (and is almost universally known) as W.E.G. Louw, (born May 31, 1913 in Sutherland, formerly Cape Province, now Northern Cape Province in South Africa; died April 24, 1980 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province, South Africa) was an Afrikaans-language poet. ... Diederik Johannes Opperman, (1914 - 1985) was one of the best-known Afrikaans poets. ... Elisabeth Eybers Elisabeth Françoise Eybers (born 16 February 1915 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal) is a South African poet. ...

Instrumental Works

Orchestral

• Symphony, an incomplete work (1953)
• Danza Senzule for chamber orchestra (1961)

Chamber Music

• String Quartet (first movement), an incomplete work (1949)
• Trio fo Viola, Violoncello and Piano (1963)
• String Quartet, an incomplete work (1970)

Solo Works

• Suite for Piano (1951)
• Prelude and Fuga for piano solo (1953-1954)
• Sonata - Variation I for piano solo (1953)
• Sonata - Variation II for piano solo (1956)
• Sonata for violin and piano (1954)
• Three Eliegies for piano solo (1970)
• Variations for piano (1978)
• Etude for piano solo (1981)
• Guitar Sonata (1984). Dedicated to David Hewitt
• Cantús Tristitae, for solo guitar (1984).
• Sonato for solo flute (1987). Dedicated to Esmé Venter.
• Sonato for violin solo (1985 rev. 1987). Dedicated to Marike Urban-Grimm.
• Wedding March for organ solo (1987). Dedicated to Ludwig en Retha Everson.

Electro-Acoustical Works

• Son Staan Stil, an electronic music composition (1971)
• Seven Inventions, a computer music composition (1988)

External links

• Musicology ars nova list -Unisa
  
• Articles in Musicus - Unisa
  
• Dictonary of African Composers
  
• Arts and Humanities pages of Intute
  
• Reference to Jeffrey James Brukman's Doctor of Musicology Thesis
  
• MusicSack database
  
• Lorraine Du Toit Biograpy
  

References

"The life and music of Cromwell Everson" by Brukman, Jeffrey James - Thesis, Doctor of Musicology, 2006 "Komponiste van Suid-Afrika" Composers of South Africa by Bouws, Jan, publisher C.F. Albertyn (Pty) Ltd, Stelenbosch, 1971