Fré Focke

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Fré Focke (born July 11, 1910 in Amsterdam , † February 5, 1989 in Bergen , North Holland ) was a Dutch pianist and composer .

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Focke studied piano with Nelly Wagenaar and composition with Sem Dresden at the Sweelink Conservatory in Amsterdam . After graduating in 1933 he received composition lessons from Willem Pijper in Utrecht and from 1941 from Anton Webern in Vienna .

After the Second World War he initially worked as an accompanist, concert pianist and private teacher for composition in Sweden . In 1946 he followed a call from Claudio Arrau to South America and lived there in Santiago de Chile until 1957 .

In 1952 he founded together with Estéban Eitler (1913-1960) the "TONUS" ("Centro de la música contemporánea en Chile"), in which modern European and Latin American music was performed. There, too, he worked primarily as a composer, pianist and composition teacher. Some of his students are Leon Schidlowsky ( Tel Aviv ), Leni Alexander ( Paris / Santiago de Chile), Juan Allende-Blin ( Essen , Cologne ) and Miguel Aguilar (Santiago de Chile).

From 1957 to 1965 he was a lecturer at the State University of Music in Hamburg ; At that time he gave many concerts with modern music and his own compositions and often appeared as an accompanist. In the second half of the sixties he made extensive trips through Europe before settling in the artist village of Bergen at the end of 1970 . There he subsequently worked exclusively as a composer and phonosist .

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SURNAME Focke, Fré
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1989
Place of death Bergen (North Holland)