Louis Andriessen was born on June 6, 1939 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. He was a composer, known for The Family (1973), Requiem (1986) and La Commedia (2014). He was married to Monika Germino and Jeanette Yanikian. He died on July 1, 2021 in Weesp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
Born in a family of musicians, his father Hendrik, his uncle and one of his brothers are also composers.
In 1969, Andriessen co-founded Studio voor Elektro-Instrumentale Muziek STEIM in Amsterdam.
Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, graduating in 1961 with a first prize, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.
His early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post-war serialism (Series, 1958), pastiche (Anachronie I, 1966-67), and tape (Il Duce, 1973).
He was married in 2012 a second time to violinist Monica Germino, for whom he wrote several works. In December 2020, she announced that the composer was suffering from dementia.