Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan "Jaap" Spaanderman jr. (17 October 1896 in
Gouda – 22 July 1985 in
Laren) was a Dutch
pianist
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,
cellist
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,
conductor and
piano
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and conducting
pedagogue
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.
Jaap Spaanderman jr. was the son of
organist
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and
conductor Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan Spaanderman sr. (1864–1943).
He studied
cello
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with
Isaac Mossel and piano with
Sarah Bosmans-Benedicts Sara Bosmans-Benedicts (23 October 1861 – 12 November 1949) was a Dutch pianist and piano pedagogue.
Benedicts was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Benedictus Benedicts and Hanna de Goede. Her parents were Jewish; her father was a violinist a ...
. He received the Dutch Prize of Excellence twice, once as a cellist (in 1918) and once as a pianist (1920), both at the
Conservatoire of Amsterdam. He further studied conducting with Hagel in
Berlin
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.
In his early twenties he made two concert tours through the
Dutch East Indies
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, present-day
Indonesia
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. From 1922 he taught piano at the Conservatoire of the Society Amsterdam 'Muzieklyceum' (one of the predecessors of the
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
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). In 1932 he was appointed as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of
Arnhem
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. In 1949 he returned to his school in Amsterdam, now teaching piano and conducting.
Among the many students of Jaap Spaanderman are
Bart Berman
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Career
Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at a predecessor ...
,
Theo Bruins
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Life and career
Bruins' earliest piano lessons were with his mother. His professional piano studies commenced in 1946 with Jaap Spaanderman ...
,
Albert Brussee,
Stanley Hoogland,
Jan Marisse Huizing,
Guus Janssen
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He studied piano and composition at the Sweelinck Academy of Music in Amster ...
,
Hans Kox
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,
Reinbert de Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw (8 September 1938 – 14 February 2020) was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer.
Life
Lambertus Reinier de Leeuw's mother and father were both psychiatrists: Cornelis Homme 'Kees' de Leeuw (1905-1953) and Adriana Judina ...
,
Lucas Vis,
Hans Vonk and
Edo de Waart
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.
References
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1896 births
1985 deaths
Dutch classical cellists
Dutch classical pianists
Dutch conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
People from Gouda, South Holland
Conservatorium van Amsterdam alumni
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century Dutch male musicians
20th-century cellists