Henk van der Vliet (born 1928) is a
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flautist
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and
composer
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of
contemporary classical music
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. Born in
Rotterdam
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, Van der Vliet began musical studies on the
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
when attending the Rotterdam Toonkunstmuziekschool.
He chose the
flute
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as his instrument and commenced studies at the
Rotterdam Conservatory of Music
Codarts University for the Arts ( nl, Codarts hogeschool voor de kunsten) is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000.
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in 1945 and graduated in 1950. He studied under Jan van Dijk and Johan Feltkamp.
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Retrieved 21 July 2013. After graduation, he taught the flute and played with the Rotterdam Kamerorkest (Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra).
Starting in 1965, he began to compose music—without having had any previous studies in composition, he is a self-taught composer.
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1928 births
Living people
Musicians from Rotterdam
Dutch classical musicians
Dutch male classical composers
Dutch classical composers
Dutch flautists
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