Koeberg, Frits Ehrhardt Adriaan

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Koeberg, Frits Ehrhardt Adriaan

Koeberg, Frits Ehrhardt Adriaan, Dutch composer; b. The Hague, July 15, 1876; d. there, Nov. 9, 1961. He studied with H. Viotta in the Netherlands and with Xaver Scharwenka in Berlin. Returning to The Hague in 1902, he taught at the Cons, and conducted the Musica orch.

Works

opera:Bloemenkind (1917); 3 syms.; symphonic poems: Zeelandia (1920) and Chimères (1941); Suite de Lage Landen for Orch. (1946); Dances in the Village for Orch. (1948); Hollandia for Band (1933); chamber music; songs.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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