Hendrik AndriessenW
Hendrik Andriessen

Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriessen composed in a musical idiom that revealed strong French influences. He was the brother of pianist and composer Willem Andriessen and the father of the composers Jurriaan Andriessen and Louis Andriessen and of the flautist Heleen Andriessen.

Jurriaan Andriessen (composer)W
Jurriaan Andriessen (composer)

Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen was a Dutch composer, whose father, Hendrik, brother Louis, and uncle Willem have also been notable composers. Andriessen studied composition with his father at the Utrecht Conservatory before moving to Paris where he studied with Olivier Messiaen.

Willem AndriessenW
Willem Andriessen

Willem Andriessen was a Dutch pianist and composer. His compositional output was small due to the demands of performance and teaching, but he was nonetheless awarded a number of compositional prizes in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Oskar BackW
Oskar Back

Oskar Back was a noted Austrian-born Dutch classical violinist and pedagogue. He taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory for 42 years, and also had a significant earlier teaching career in Belgium.

Andrée BonhommeW
Andrée Bonhomme

Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme was a Dutch composer.

Princess Christina of the NetherlandsW
Princess Christina of the Netherlands

Princess Christina of the Netherlands was the youngest of four daughters of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

Jan DahmenW
Jan Dahmen

Jan Dahmen was a Dutch violinist. He was the first concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden and of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Oscar van DillenW
Oscar van Dillen

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.

Cornelis DopperW
Cornelis Dopper

Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher.

Bram ElderingW
Bram Eldering

Abraham "Bram" Eldering was a Deutch violinist and music pedagogue.

Bertha Frensel WegenerW
Bertha Frensel Wegener

Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman was a Dutch composer and music educator.

Bernard HaitinkW
Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink is a Dutch conductor and violinist.

Herman KrebbersW
Herman Krebbers

Herman Krebbers was a Dutch violinist.

Elisabeth KuyperW
Elisabeth Kuyper

Elisabeth Johanna Lamina Kuyper was a Dutch Romantic composer and conductor.

James KwastW
James Kwast

James Kwast was a Dutch-German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor.

Louis van de LaarW
Louis van de Laar

Louis Josephus Maria van de Laar was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and historian.

Reinbert de LeeuwW
Reinbert de Leeuw

Reinbert de Leeuw was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer.

Eric LucassenW
Eric Lucassen

Eric Lucassen is a former Dutch politician and digital music educator as well as sergeant. As a member of the Party for Freedom he was an MP from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. He focused on matters of Kingdom relations.

Johan MesschaertW
Johan Messchaert

Johan Messchaert was a Dutch baritone singer and vocal pedagogue.

Henri PetriW
Henri Petri

Henri Willem Petri was a Dutch violinist, music pedagogue, composer and arranger.

Catharina van RennesW
Catharina van Rennes

Catharina van Rennes was a Dutch music educator, soprano singer and composer.

Anton SistermansW
Anton Sistermans

Anton Sistermans was a Dutch baritone during the late 19th-early 20th century. He is particularly notable for interpretations of lieder and oratorios. During his career, Sistermans premiered important compositions by Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler, and also had lieder dedicated to him by Hans Pfitzner, Eugen d'Albert and Alexander von Zemlinsky. In his later years, Sistermans served as a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and conductor of a church choir in Rotterdam.

Marinus SnoerenW
Marinus Snoeren

Marinus Arnoldus Johannes Snoeren, was a Dutch cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. He was born in 's-Gravenhage, the son of Marinus Franciscus Snoeren.

Herman StrategierW
Herman Strategier

Herman Strategier (1912–1988) was a composer, organist, and conductor from The Netherlands. Strategier studied at the Roman Catholic School of Church Music in Utrecht. He served as conductor of Leiden's Dutch Madrigal Choir and also composed a number of larger concert works, among them are Don Ramiro (1943) for chorus and orchestra, Rembrandt Cantata (1956), and Shadow out of Time (1973) for ad libitum chorus, flute, percussion, organ, harp, and tape.

Robbert VosW
Robbert Vos

Robbert Vos, is a euphonium soloist, Besson artist, conductor and tutor from the Netherlands.

Bernard ZweersW
Bernard Zweers

Bernard Zweers was a Dutch composer and music teacher.