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Paul Seelig, composer from Bandung, Java
2019 || Paperback || Henk Mak van Dijk || Uitgeverij West
Paul Seelig, composer from Bandung, Java
Paul Seelig (Funkenberg,Germany, 1876 – Batavia, 1945) lived most of his life in Bandung on the island of Java. Inspired by Javanese gamelan, kroncong, Comedy Stamboel and Malay pantun poetry, he composed a small but interesting oeuvre. He was quite successful abroad: in Siam, Austria, Australia and America. In Siam he was awarded the Order of the White Elephant, in Vienna he was called an Oriental Master, in Australia his Malaysian songs had great s...
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Constant van de Wall, a European-Javanese composer
2019 || Paperback || Henk Mak van Dijk || Uitgeverij West
Constant van de Wall, a European-Javanese composer
Constant van de Wall (Surabaya, 1871 – Nice, 1945) occupies a prominent place in the list of Indisch composers because of a number of uniquely European-Javanese compositions: songs, pieces for piano and for orchestra, chamber music, and the opera Attima. From this it is evident that his eyes and ears were open to the country where he was born and raised: the nature, Javanese antiquities, the shadow play, the Malay pantun, Javanese dance, g...
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Tussen Ambon en Amsterdam (Heruitgave)
Paperback || Herman Keppy || Uitgeverij West
De op Ambon geboren gebroeders Tehupeiory behoren in 1907 tot de allereerste landskinderen van Nederlands-Indië die studeren in Holland – ze volgen de studie geneeskunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. De oudste had toen al furore gemaakt als auteur van ‘Onder de Dajaks in Centraal-Borneo’, ‘het beste boek ooit door een inlander in het Nederlands geschreven’. Zijn jongere broer doet in 1909 van zich spreken, wanneer hij terug in Indië zowel een succesvol studiefonds voor de Mol...