Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer (or Sigtenhorst-Meyer; also Bernard) (1888–1953) was a Dutch

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and great connoisseur of the works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. He was born in

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on 17 June 1888, and died in

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17 July 1953. He studied

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with Daniël de Lange, piano with Jean Baptiste Charles de Pauw and composition with

Bernard Zweers Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (18 May 1854 in Amsterdam – 9 December 1924 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music ...

. In 1935, he was co-founder of the Association for Protestant church music (''Vereniging voor Protestantse Kerkmuziek''). However, the claim that he destroyed all his works from the early 1910s, made at the Orgelconcerten page, is not quite, anyway, true; the substantial list of manuscripts at NMI (see external links, below) contains e.g. an autograph of a "Strijkkwartet/17-2 1911" - presumably(?) the string quartet mentioned. At least one song ("Avant que tu l'en ailles/Pâle étoile du matin, / Paul Verlaine. / Musique de / Bernh. Meyer / 2 sept. 1912" survives from this period, and some works dated 1915; however his " Op.1" is attached to "Van de Bloemen" of 1917. Notable students of Sigtenhorst-Meyer's included Hans Henkemans.

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