Boudewijn Buckinx (born 28 March1945 in Lommel) is a Belgiancomposer. March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Lommel is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...
Buckinx attended the Antwerp Conservatory, and from 1964 studied composition and serial music with Lucien Goethals in Ghent, where he also studied electronic music at the IPEM. In 1968 he attended Stockhausen’s composition studio in Darmstadt and participated in the composition of Stockhausen’s Musik für ein Haus. However, his principal influences are Mauricio Kagel and John Cage. He also studied musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven, graduating in 1972 with a dissertation on Cage’s Variations. Ghent municipality and district in the province East Flanders Ghent (IPA: ; Gent in Dutch; Gand in French, formerly Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality located in Flanders, Belgium. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ... Mauricio Kagel (born Buenos Aires, December 24, 1931) is an Argentine composer who has lived in Germany for most of his career. ... John Cage For the character of John Cage from the TV show Ally McBeal see: John Cage (Character) John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ...
Compositions (selective list)
Sløjd, for mixed media (1968)
Piotr Lunaire, for narrator, one singer, and piano (1985)
Ce qu’on entend dans la salle de concert, for orchestra (1987)
In der buurt van Neptunus, for cello and piano (1987)
BoudewijnBuckinx (born 28 March 1945 in Lommel) is a Belgian composer.
Buckinx attended the Antwerp Conservatory, and from 1964 studied composition and serial music with Lucien Goethals in Ghent, where he also studied electronic music at the IPEM.
In 1968 he attended Stockhausen’s composition studio in Darmstadt and participated in the composition of Stockhausen’s Musik für ein Haus.
Buckinx has also been strongly influenced by Mauricio Kagel and John Cage; in 1972 he wrote his final major paper at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on Cage's Variations.
In 1993 a nine-day-long Buckinx festival was held in De Rode Pomp in Ghent.
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