Domselaer's piano suite Proeven van Stijlkunst (Experiments in Artistic Style, 1913–17) represented the first attempt to apply principles of Neo-Plasticism to music, and Mondrian asserted that pieces were created under the influence of the plus-minus painting he created around the year 1915 (Blotkamp 1994, 159).
This austere, mathematically based music represents an important but as yet unacknowledged precedent to minimalism[citation needed] and has been little performed or recorded.
Domselaer's students have included the Dutch composers Nico Schuyt (Wennekes 2001) and Simeon ten Holt (Ramaer 2001).
At the Berlage Concourse in 1988, the Dutch pianist Kees Wieringa was one of the prize winners, playing piano music by Domselaer.
[1] His son, Jaap van Domselaer (1923–1944), was a promising young poet when he was shot while trying to escape from German-occupied Netherlands to the liberated zone in 1944 (Smit 2011).