The Dutch recorder player and early music conductor Frans Brüggen died on August 13. He was born in Amsterdam and studied recorder, flute, and musicology. By age 21, he was a professor of Baroque music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He began playing professionally and became famous for his virtuoso technique on the recorder.
Contemporary composers dedicated works to him (view clips on YouTube(link is external)), including:
Luciano Berio: Gesti (1967) (view on YouTube(link is external))
Louis Andriessen: Sweet (1964) and Ende (1981) for 2 alto recorders, 1 player
Peter Schat: Hypothema (1969)
Makoto Shinohara: "Fragmente" (1968)
Maki Ishii: "Black Intention I" (1976)
He stopped playing recorder in concerts in the early 1980s, at which time he founded the Orchestra of the 18th Century(link is external).
Obituaries:
Het Parool, “The John Lennon of classical music(link is external)”
New York Times(link is external)
Frankfurter Rundschau(link is external)
A short rembrance from BR Radio(link is external) (in German)
Frans Brüggen playing Telemann’s Fantasie Nr. 3 in a recording from 1967.
Brüggen conducting his Orchestra of the 18th Century in the overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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