→ Newsletter/free member account

Member login



Username: | Password:

[Forgot your password?]



150,000+ page views monthly! Advertise?

– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

[Page views per month]
– Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart [2372]
– Antonio Vivaldi [2335]
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1798]
– Ludwig van Beethoven [1172]
– Johann Sebastian Bach [1141]
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel [1103]
– Johannes Brahms [1075]
– Antonio Salieri [1075]
– Gustav Mahler [1070]
– Georges Bizet [1041]

Born: 20 August 1933 — Amsterdam — The Netherlands

Died: 19 October 2003 — Amsterdam — The Netherlands

Compositions

Among his compositions are: Whistle for a friend, for flute solo (1980); Display IV, for 6 pianos and piano tuner (1980, rev. 1988); Display V, for 12 violoncellos (1983, rev. 1984) and Thalía, for orchestra (1987, rev. 1988); Self-portrait (with Stephen Heller) for string quintet (1990) and Satz, for violoncello, on a theme by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1990).

Compact Discs

On the CD Twenty grand pianos was his arrangement of the Scherzo à la Russe by Stravinsky released (RN Classics 93005) and on the CD Robby Faverey, Stanley Noordpool & Friends was Dansa released (Attacca Babel 2090).

Pianist and composer. Brother of composer Willem Frederik.

---

Maarten Bon was born on August 20, 1933 in Amsterdam; he died on October 19th, 2003 in Amsterdam.

Musical education

He studied piano with Johannes Jacobus Raaff (his grandfather), Net Cornelis, Herman Sachs and at the Muzieklyceum in Amsterdam with Jaap Spaanderman and Theo Bruins. Thereafter he continued his studies with Noëmie Perugia (accompagnement de chant), Magda Tagliaferro and Jean Jacques Painchaud (Paris) and Maria Stroo. He also studied bassoon with Anton Mühlenbaumer and Brian Pollard and violin with Dick van der Veen.

He studied composition with Carel Porcelijn, Herman Sachs, Theo Bruins and Kees van Baaren.

Activities

Since 1970, Maarten Bon has been pianist in the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.

• http://www.muziekgroep.nl/...

[Submit concert announcements for Maarten Bon.]

[Submit an event (date and year) for Maarten Bon.]

---