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Leeuw, Ton de
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Biography showing his musical evolution and noting the number of genres in which he composed from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=5254
English and Dutch resource materials in HTML, DOC, and PDF format, links, and related articles from MuziekGroep Nederland.
http://www.muziekgroep.nl/englis...poser.php?zknm=LEEUW,%20TON%20DE
Biographical study of his musical style and evolution traced through selected works.
http://homepage.mac.com/wmcfar/Ton%20de%20Leeuw%20special.html
Analytical biography of his life and works with photograph emphasizes his synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas in his works.
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Ton de Leeuw Netherlands lost their greatest living composer, when Ton de Leeuw died in Paris. He had lived there for the last ten years of his life. Ton de Leeuw was born...Biography emphasizing his place in the development of "world music" with comments on selected works and photography. By Stichting Huygens-Fokker.
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Stichting Huygens-Fokker: Ton de Leeuw He also taught lessons in composition at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Since 1954 he made radio programmes about contemporary music and in 1964 he published the book Muziek van...