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Bernard Zweers
12+ albums
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Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (Amsterdam, May 18, 1854 - December 9, 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business. Being fundamentally self-taught, he had some minor musical successes before his parents finally approved and sent him to study with Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig in 1881-1883. Of crucial importance to Zweers' musical education was his first exposure to the work of Richard Wagner when he was present at the Berlin premiere of the Ring des Nibelungen, in 1881: I, who never ventured farther than Nijmegen and who had never heard even a normal opera before, I was in Berlin, listening to Wagner's Ring! ... and I returned a full-blooded Wagnerian. After his return, he became active in Dutch musical life and took on various appointments, including the conductorship of various choirs. However, due to deterioration of his hearing abilities and his own wish to concentrate on teaching, he relinquished most of these. From 1895 to 1922 he was head of teaching and composition at the Amsterdam conservatory but rather than impose his own music on his pupils, he left them the freedom to develop their own style - a break with the policies of his predecessor Johannes Verhulst. He became a highly-esteemed, even revere
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To my Country from Symponie Nr. 3
712Symphony No. 3 in B-Flat Major "Aan mijn vaderland": I. In the Dutch Forests
453Symphony No. 3 in B-Flat Major "Aan mijn vaderland": II. In the Country
434Symphony No. 3 in B-Flat Major "Aan mijn vaderland": III. On the Beach and at Sea
355Symphony No. 3 in B-Flat Major "Aan mijn vaderland": IV. To the Capital
296Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro vivace
217Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major: III. Allegretto con moto
198Suite from the Incidental Music for Vondel's "Gijsbrecht van Aamstel": I. First Movement
199Suite from the Incidental Music for Vondel's "Gijsbrecht van Aamstel": III. Third Movement
1810Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major: II. Andante
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Zweers: Symphony No. 3 "Aan mijn Vaderland"
Zweers: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major
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Bernard Zweers: Symphony No.3 Aan Mijn Vaderland
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The Ridge - Der Grat
Bernard Zweers: Symphony No.2 in E Flat Major
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Symphony No. 2 In E Flat Major, Saskia & Suite From Gijsbrecht van Aemstel
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400 JAAR NEDERLANDSE MUZIEK
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Zweers: Symphony No. 1 in D Major - De Lange: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
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Zweers : Symphony No. 3 "Aan mijn vaderland"
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400 Years Of Dutch Music Vol. 4
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Bernard Zweers: Symphony Nr. 2 and other works
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Symphony No. 1 in D-major