Harry Bannink

Harry Bannink (born April 10, 1929 in Enschede , † October 19, 1999 in Bosch en Duin ) was a Dutch composer and pianist . He composed over 3000 songs, many of them for one-time use on television.

Career

Bannink studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague . He began his musical career in the late 1950s as a pianist in a small dance orchestra . In the beginning he composed mainly for the theater and created the first Dutch musical in 1965 with the author Annie Schmidt . Songs that he composed for the television series Ja zuster, nee zuster and 't Schaep met de 5 pooten from 1966 to 1970 are still popular today.

Since the 1970s he has worked with a permanent team of copywriters on various television series for children, as a result of which an entire generation grew up with his music. In the De film van Ome Willem series , he also always appeared himself, nicknamed “hoofd-geitebreier” (main goat knitter), as a joking prototype of a serious pianist. From 1981 until shortly before his death, Bannink was a resident composer with the Dutch version of Sesame Street and the informative youth program Het Klokhuis . He mainly worked with singing actors.

Because of the high quality, variety and popularity of his works, Bannink is sometimes considered the greatest Dutch composer in recent years.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Bannink - Biography access = 2018-11-07. (Dutch).  
2. ↑ Harry Bannink - Wie Is Wie In Overijssel. Retrieved November 7, 2018 (nl-nl). 
3. ↑ Yes zuster, no zuster - Beeld en Geluid Wiki. Retrieved November 7, 2018 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ Over Harry Bannink ⋆ Harry Bannink® . In: Harry Bannink® . ( harrybannink.info [accessed November 7, 2018]).
5. ↑ oeuvre van Harry Bannink - Beeld en Geluid Wiki. Retrieved November 7, 2018 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ Aart starts spontaneously mee te zingen . In: NRC . ( nrc.nl [accessed November 7, 2018]).