Henry BredemersW
Henry Bredemers

Henry Bredemers (Bredeniers) was a South Netherlandish organist and music teacher. No compositions by him survive, and his historical importance lies chiefly in his activities as a teacher.

Arjan BreukhovenW
Arjan Breukhoven

Karel Jan (Arjan) Breukhoven is a Dutch musician.

Pieter HellendaalW
Pieter Hellendaal

Pieter Hellendaal was a Dutch composer, organist and violinist.

Thijs van LeerW
Thijs van Leer

Thijs van Leer is a Dutch musician, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist. Born and raised in Amsterdam among a musical family, van Leer took up the piano and flute as a child and pursued them at university and music academies.

Daan MannekeW
Daan Manneke

Daan Manneke is a Dutch composer and organist.

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.

Willem TankeW
Willem Tanke

Willem Tanke is an organist and acclaimed recitalist known for his interpretations of works by J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen and contemporary composers. In addition he is noted for his own musical language as an improviser and a performing composer. As a teenager, he was drawn especially to wanting to play the organ by the religiously-inspired music of J.S. Bach and Olivier Messiaen, and also John Coltrane.

Berthold ToursW
Berthold Tours

Berthold Tours was a Dutch-born English violinist, composer and music editor. His first music teacher was his father, Barthelemy Tours (1797-1864), who was organist of the Groote or St Laurens Kerk in Rotterdam for thirty years, a conductor, and a violinist of European wide reputation, while he studied composition with Johannes Verhulst. Later, he studied composition with François-Joseph Fétis at the conservatory in Brussels and then continued his studies in Leipzig.