Hendrik Bouman - Hendrik Bouman Hendrik ("Henk") Bouman (1951 Netherlands) is a virtuoso harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of baroque and classical music. His basso continuo realisations and his compositions have become a reference in the field of baroque and classical music. He studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Ton Koopman. As original harpsichordist of Musica Antiqua Köln (1976-1983) he made four world tours and numerous recordings as basso continuo player, duo partner and soloist for European radio stations and DGG Archiv, of which several recordings have been awarded the highest distinctions. Hendrik Bouman made his conducting debut in the world première of the Mass by Alain Pièrard in the Basilique de Notre Dame, Montréal Canada in 1985. The following year he founded the period orchestra Les.
Virtuoso - written specifically for virtuosos. Modern guitar virtuosos include Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, and Yngwie J. Malmsteen. Modern harpsichord virtuoso include Hendrik Bouman, Kethil Haugsand, Ton Koopman, Gustav Leonhardt, Trevor Pinnock, Andreas Staier.
Harpsichordist - are known as harpsichordists. Some well known harpsichordists include: Hendrik Bouman Thurston Dart Ralph Fitzpatrick Patrick Frye Kenneth Gilbert Christopher Hogwood Igor Kipnis Wanda Landowska Gustav Leonhardt George Malcolm Trevor Pinnock Christophe Rousset Rosalyn Tureck Bob Van Asperen Lars Ulrik Mortensen Scott Ross Pierre Hantaï.
Authentic performance - 18th century. Many harpsichords were destroyed--notoriously, they were used for firewood in the Paris Conservatory during Napoleonic times. Composers such as William Byrd, Francois Couperin, and J. S. Bach wrote for the harpsichord and not the piano, which was invented ca. 1700 and only widely adopted by about 1765. The music of these composers sounds very different, and requires a different interpretive approach, when played on the harpsichord instead of the piano. Notably, since every note on a harpsichord is equally loud, subtle variations of timing and articulation, as well a judicious use of ornamentation, are employed to achieve an expressive harpsichord performance. The harpsichord was revived in the first half of the twentieth century by Wanda Landowska. Since most useful knowledge of harpsichord construction had been lost by that time,.
List of people from the Dutch Golden Age - Italian and Dutch landscapes Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) historical and biblical paintings, genre pieces (figures) Paulus Potter (1625-1654) landscapes Jan Steen (1626-1679) genre pieces (inns, family scenes) Pieter de Hooch (1629-1683) genre pieces (family scenes) Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) cityscapes, genre pieces (family scenes) Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) portraits, genre pieces (family scenes, figures) Less famous painters from this period were Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616) portraits, schutterstukken Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617) landscapes Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651) historical and biblical paintings, landscapes Michiel Janszoon van Miereveld (1567-1641) portraits Johannes Anthoniszoon van Ravesteyn (ca. 1570-1657) portraits Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573-1621) flowers Floris Claeszoon van Dijck (1575-1651) still lifes Roelant Savery (1576-1639) landscapes Jan Pynas (ca. 1580-1633) historical and biblical paintings Johannes Porcellis (1584-1632) sea sights Hendrick Averkamp (1585-1634) Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1586-1667) Italian landscapes Hendrick Terbruggen (1588-1629) historical and biblical.
Jan Hendrik Schön - Jan Hendrik Schön Jan Hendrik Schön is a German physicist who rose to prominence briefly before it was discovered that many of his results were fraudulent. Schön received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1997. In 2002 Schön was fired from Bell Labs after his work was found to contain fraudulent data; it was the first case of fraud in the lab's history. Over a dozen of Schön's papers were found to contain made up or altered data, including a paper on molecular-scale transistors that was hailed as a breakthrough. On October 31, 2002, Science withdrew 8 papers written by Schön, and then on March 5, 2003, Nature withdrew 7 papers written by Schön..
Johan Hendrik Weidner - Johan Hendrik Weidner Johan Hendrik Weidner (French: Jean Henri - English: John Henry) (October 22, 1912, Brussels, Belgium - May 21, 1994, Monterey Park, California, United States) was a highly decorated hero of World War II. Johan Weidner, born to Dutch parents, grew up in Collonges, France in the Ain département near the Swiss border where his father served as the minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Following his education at French public schools, he studied at the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary in Collonges, and then pursued a degree in law and in business at the University of Geneva and at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. In 1935, he established a textile import/export business in Paris, where he was living at the outbreak of World War II. With.
Hendrik Lorentz - Hendrik Lorentz Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem - February 4, 1928, Haarlem) the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for his work on electromagnetic radiation. Lorentz attended primary school in Arnhem until he was 13 years of age when he entered the new High School there. He entered the University of Leiden in 1870 but, in 1872, he returned to Arnhem to take up teaching evening classes. He worked for his doctorate while holding the teaching post. In his doctoral thesis for University of Leiden (1875), Lorentz refined the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell to better explain the reflection and refraction of light. He was appointed professor of mathematical physics at the Univiersity of Leiden in 1878. During his time there he was.
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht - Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (population: 21,426 in 2002) is a village in the western Netherlands. It is located in the Dutch province of South Holland, on the island of IJsselmonde, and borders with Zwijndrecht, Ridderkerk, and the Noord River. The jurisdiction of its municipality covers an area of 12.00 km². It comprises no other villages, but it does comprise a piece of freeway with a crossing with entries, exits, parking places and restaurants, and also the west part of the Sophia Rail Tunnel in the Betuwe Route. External Links Official website (however, the area statistics "oppervlakte in km: 211,99" apparently must be "in km²: 11,99") Map of the Village Sophia Rail Tunnel in the Betuwe Route: [1], [1].
Hendrik of the Netherlands - Hendrik of the Netherlands His Grand Ducal and Royal Highness Heinrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (April 19, 1876 - July 3, 1934), Prince of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, was the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. He was born in Schwerin. He was created Prince Henrik of the Netherlands on February 6, 1901 and married Queen Wilhelmina on February 7, 1901 at the Hague. They had one child, Princess Juliana, in whose favor her mother abdicated on September 4, 1948. He died at The Hague..
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 - 6 September 1966) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966, when he was assassinated. Unlike his predecessors, Verwoerd was not born in South Africa, but came with his parents from the Netherlands. He presided over the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress and Pan-Africanist Congress, the establishment of a republic, as well as the sentencing of Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Architect of Apartheid 2 A Republic 3 Assassination Architect of Apartheid Verwoerd, formerly Minister for 'Native Affairs', believed in 'separate development'. He believed that the black majority had no political role to play in the Republic of South Africa, as they were citizens.
Hendrik Brouwer - Hendrik Brouwer Hendrick Brouwer (1580 - 1643) was a Dutch sea explorer. In 1611, Brouwer found a better route from South Africa to Java, sailing eastward until reaching the right longitude, then turning north to Batavia. He is thus credited for discovering the Roaring Forties. In 1643, he travelled to Chile to fight the Spanish and look for gold. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Hendrik Willem van Loon - Hendrik Willem van Loon Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1882 1944 was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. Born in Rotterdam, he came to the United States in 1903. He was a correspondent during the Russian revolutionary outbreak of 1905 and in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. During the 1920s he wrote many books, most notably The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. His other books include "The Fall of the Dutch Republic", "The Story of the Bible", "Tolerance", "America" and "R.V.R.: A Fictional Biography of Rembrandt." His books were popular with the general public, as he emphasized crucial events, emphasized the role of the arts in history and had.
Hendrik Conscience - Hendrik Conscience Hendrik Conscience (born December 3, 1812 in Antwerp, died September 10, 1883 in Antwerp) was a Flemish writer. Born to a French father, he was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the seccession from the Netherlands in 1930 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. Although he invariably signed his name Hendrik, his baptismal name was Henri. He was the son of a Frenchman, Pierre Conscience, from Besancon, who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who was appointed under-harbourmaster at Antwerp in 1811, when that city formed part of France. Hendriks mother was a Fleming, Cornelia Balieu. When, in 1815, the French abandoned Antwerp after the Congress of Vienna, they left Pierre Conscience behind them. He was.
George Hendrik Breitner - George Hendrik Breitner George Hendrik Breitner (September 12, 1857, Rotterdam - June 5, 1923, Amsterdam) was a member of the Dutch artist group known as 'De Tachtigers'('The Eighties') because of their artistic influence in the years of 1880, including painters like Isaac Israëls, Willem Witsen, and poets like Willem Kloos. He was criticized for his famous saying: "Van Gogh makes art for eskimos". Entered Amsterdam in 1886 after he was expelled from the Art Academy of The Hague, because of "radical behaviour". After this event he was 'discovered' by Willem Mesdag, for Breitner showed to have a talent for painting horses. Mesdag needed Breitner to paint the artillery and the horses in his famous Panorama. Where Van Gogh was determined to illustrate an expressionistic perception of his.
Christian Hendrik Persoon - Christian Hendrik Persoon Christian Hendrik Persoon (1761 - 1836) was a mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. He was influenced by Elias Magnus Fries. Persoon was born in South Africa, of Dutch and German descent. He died in poverty in Paris..
Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde - Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde Dutch physician/gynæcologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873 - 1937) was Director at the Gynæcological Institute in Haarlem, the Netherlands. His book Het volkomen huwelijk, (The Perfect Marriage) was published in 1926 and made him an instant international celebrity. The book advocated knowledge and sensuality in erotic life. In Germany Die vollkommene Ehe reached its 42:nd printing in 1932 in spite of the fact that it was placed on the list of forbidden books, Index librorum prohibitorum by the Roman Catholic Church. In protestantic and socialistic Sweden, Det fulländade äktenskapet was widely known although regarded as pornographic and unsuitable for young readers long into the 1960s..
Willem Hendrik Keesom - Willem Hendrik Keesom Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch scientist who in 1926 invented a method to solidify helium. He had been student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who had been the first to liquefy helium (a feat for which Onnes received a Nobel Prize)..
Leo Hendrik Baekeland - Leo Hendrik Baekeland Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. He was born in Ghent and studied at the university of his native city. From 1889 onwards, he lived in the United States. In 1907 he invented bakelite, a polymeric plastic made from phenol and formaldehyde. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Karlspreis - idea and European peace. Past recipients of the award include 1950 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi 1951 Hendrik Brugmans 1952 Alcide de Gasperi 1953 Jean Monnet 1954 Konrad Adenauer 1956 Sir Winston S. Churchill 1957 Paul Henri Spaak 1958 Robert Schuman 1959 George C. Marshall 1960 Joseph Bech 1961 Walter Hallstein 1963 Edward Heath 1964 Antonio Segni 1966 Jens Otto Krag 1967 Joseph Luns 1969 The European Commission 1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne 1972 Roy Jenkins 1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantin Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1981 Simone Veil 1982 King Juan Carlos I. of Spain 1984 Karl Carstens 1986 The People of Luxemburg 1987 Henry A. Kissinger 1988 François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl 1989 Frère Roger 1990 Gyula Horn 1991 Václav Havel 1992 Jacques.
