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Jozef van Wissem was born on 22 November, 1962 in Maastricht, Netherlands, is a Dutch composer and lute player. Discover Jozef van Wissem's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Musician
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 22 November 1962
Birthday 22 November
Birthplace Maastricht, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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1962

Jozef van Wissem (born 22 November 1962) is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn.

1990

An incessantly touring musician, Van Wissem studied lute in New York with Patrick O'Brien in 1990s.

2009

Jozef van Wissem's solo albums, It Is All That Is Made (2009) and Ex Patris (2010), were released on Important Records.

2011

He released The Joy That Never Ends, an album with Jim Jarmusch on the label in 2011.

He wrote a score for the video game The Sims Medieval.

Van Wissem has earned much critical acclaim for his work, the ‘liberation of the lute’ as he calls it.

According to Steve Dollar for the Washington Post,"For him the lute is utterly contemporary. “I want to update it and also make it sexy again. It’s not interesting to a lot of people because it comes with all this baggage, this set of rules that these academics gave the instrument, that keeps it in a museum.” To that end, Van Wissem often performs in rock venues and could easily pass for a Nordic metal overlord, with thigh-high black leather boots and long, dirty-blond hair. Van Wissem can captivate a room on his own, as unafraid of spare beauty as he is of experimental gambits. When he plays the melody’s delicate glimmer freezes the moment, begging the listener to come closer as he steps away from the microphone. Van Wissem holds the instrument in front of his chest as the natural sound resonates inside the lute’s boat-like cavity. He’s not only liberating the lute, as he suggests later, but also asking his audience to liberate themselves from accustomed approaches to music."According to The New York Times "Van Wissem is both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist, and thus no stranger to dichotomy".

According to Richard Foster in The Quietus, "Van Wissem is possibly the best known lute player in the Western world."

2012

Concerning the Entrance into Eternity, his first collaborative album with Jim Jarmusch, was released on Important Records in early 2012.

The Mystery of Heaven, his second collaborative album with Jarmusch, was released on Sacred Bones Records later that year.

The More She Burns the More Beautifully She Glows, a track off the album, featured a guest appearance from Tilda Swinton.

2013

In 2013 Van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Only Lovers Left Alive at the Cannes Film Festival.

Jozef van Wissem was born in Maastricht.

Van Wissem scored Jarmusch's 2013 film Only Lovers Left Alive.

2016

In his review of the 2016 album When Shall This Bright Day Begin, Foster said that "To get into Van Wissem’s world is to surrender to the inevitability – and timelessness – of a strange music created at its own pace, in a manner wholly of its creator’s making."

When Shall This Bright Day Begin, featuring guest vocals by Zola Jesus, was released by Consouling Sounds in 2016.

2017

The same label released Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back in 2017.

Van Wissem reactivated Incunabulum for his 2017 release New Lute Music for Film.

In December 2017, Van Wissem was commissioned by the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to perform the piece "You Know That I Love You' depicted by Caravaggio in his painting The Lute Player (1596) for the event for the final restoration of the painting. Confronted with the sound system, acoustics of the museum, and the number of people in the hall, Van Wissem decided to do a more fluent drone version instead of the classical version"

2018

His third Consouling Sounds release, We Adore You, You Have No Name, followed in 2018.

2019

In 2019, Van Wissem and Jarmusch returned to Sacred Bones with the full-length An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil.

In 2022 his new solo lute and electronics record “ Behold !

I Make All Things New " was announced. Louderthanwar announced his upcoming tour and wrote, Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch lute player who vamps the instrument into the now. His spellbinding atmospheric music has a haunting resonance.  "Behold!

I Make All Things New “ is all instrumental and consists of sparse works for lute and electronics.

There are no vocals this time.

It is more a return to the minimal neo-classical style of his early work.

It was written and recorded in lockdown in Warsaw and Rotterdam between 2019 and 2021.”.

In 2022 four of his compositions were featured in the Irma Vep Series on HBO.

His piece " Temple Dance Of The Soul" was featured in the trailer and under the Alica Vikander mirror scene in the series.

According to NPR's All Songs Considered "his compositions are heavy and set in hypnotic darkness".

When Van Wissem " started to think about new compositions for lute he made the decision to perform the classical lute repertoire backwards. From this mirror image writing followed the idea to compose in layered palindromes only and repeat them over elongated periods of time. The challenges are the minimalist idea of using only a few chords, one or two tunings, one instrument and then to be interesting within these limits and constraints. And to come up with a simple melody"

2020

In January 2020 Van Wissem performed in Aalborg, Denmark "in the magnificent baroque interior of the medieval Budolfi church. His pizzicato looks so effortless that the ancient lute with three pegboxes at first seems to be a prop. Occasionally giving a piercing look towards the audience, the musician skillfully steers the course between the past and now. One of the time-travel themes is You Know That I Love You, a 16th-century madrigal by the Renaissance composer Jacques Arcadelt. Three years ago Van Wissem was commissioned to perform this piece at St Petersburg’s Hermitage museum which displays Caravaggio’s The Lute Player which also depicts a young man reading the notes of the same madrigal... The further this lute player travels, the more intense these shamanic charms are. Having performed a few minimalist instrumentals, Van Wissem starts singing. The effect of these enchanting loops is enhanced by the mantra-sounding lines “Do you feel like you want to?

Do you ever feel like you want to?”.

Later, for the encore, he plays another piece including all-the-more hypnotising lyrics “Love destroys all Evil and frees us” multiplied and intensified.”

In February 2021 Van Wissem premiered a new black Baroque lute on Dutch National TV.

The instrument had the Latin words “Ex Mortis” inscribed in the neck.

Humo Magazine wrote, “Eight minutes of Jozef van Wissem: the Dutch lute player from New York, who presents his art as a kind of mix between a medieval monk and a Satanist Rasputin.

Music that is as cool as it is educative, aired on a Sunday evening at prime time, quite special.“

On March 24, 2022, the New York Times wrote about Van Wissem's score for the Nosferatu horror film.