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Johan de Meij (Voorburg, 1953) studied trombone and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Music at The Hague. He has earned international fame as a composer and arranger. His catalogue consists of original compositions, symphonic transcriptions and arrangements of film scores and musicals.
The Symphony no. 1 The Lord of the Rings, based on Tolkien's best-seller novels of the same name, was his first substantial composition for symphonic band and received the prestigious Sudler Composition Award in 1989. In 2001, the orchestral version was premiered by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. His other larger compositions, such as Symphony no. 2 The Big Apple, T-Bone Concerto (for trombone and wind orchestra) and Casanova (for violoncello and wind orchestra) are also on the repertoire of the better bands all over the world. Casanova was awarded the First Prize at the International Composition Competition of Corciano in 1999, and a year later, De Meij won the Oman International C
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Johan de Meij (born November 23, 1953 in Voorburg, Holland) is a Dutch composer, arranger, and conductor known for writing two symphonies of impressions of The Lord of the Rings.
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Johan de Meij studied conducting and the trombone at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the oldest conservatory in the Netherlands. At age 30 he began composing Symphony No. 1, "The Lord of the Rings", a work of five movements based off of characters and scenes from J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Lord of the Rings. It was his first of five symphonies; he would go on to write chiefly for symphonic band, sometimes specifically symphonic wind band, and orchestra. After playing flute, euphonium, and trombone for different ensembles throughout Holland, he became the principal guest conductor of both the New York Wind Symphony and the Kyushu Wind Orchestra in Fukuoka, Japan, and a frequent guest conductor for the Simón Bolívar Youth Wind Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1989, de Mei