Daan Manneke (born 7 November 1939) is a Dutch

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and

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. Manneke was born in

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. He studied organ and composition from 1963 to 1967 at the

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Conservatory in

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, under H. Houët and Louis Toebosch (organ) and Jan van Dijk (composition) then studied organ with Belgian organist Kamiel d’Hooghe in Brussels, followed by composition with

Ton de Leeuw Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality. Life and career Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth i ...

in Amsterdam. In 1976 he was awarded The Composition Prize at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory, where he now teaches composition and analysis of

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. He was conductor of Cappella Breda, and has made numerous recordings with them (Dufay, Willaert, Bruckner, Strawinsky, Pärt, Ton de Leeuw, Manneke).

Works

He has written over 90 works in various styles, and is particularly known for his organ and choral music.

Selected recordings

*works on ''Invisible Cities''

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, Telarc 1996

References

biography
at Muziek Centrum Nederland
Profile

External links

Official website
1939 births Living people 21st-century male musicians 21st-century organists Academic staff of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam Composers for carillon Dutch composers Dutch organists Male organists People from Reimerswaal {{organist-stub