Wim Statius Muller

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Wim Statius Muller (Curaçao, 26 January 1930 - 31 August 2019) was a Curaçaoan composer and pianist who has been nicknamed "Curaçao’s Chopin" for his romantic piano stylings. Although he was a Juilliard graduate, his musical career did not begin in earnest until after he retired from a career in security and counterintelligence. Statius Muller was born in 1930 on Curaçao, in Willemstad's Otrabanda district. He began piano lessons at age seven with Jacobo Palm, among others. He received a thorough musical education, entering in 1949 the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where he studied piano and composition with Josef Raieff (the last pupil of Alexander Siloti). He received his degree in 1954, and in 1955 began teaching piano and music history at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. In 1960, Statius Muller left his position at the University to accept a job as a civil servant, initially in Willemstad (Curaçao), where he was asked to collaborate in the creation of a security service. In 1972, he relocated to the Netherlands, later describing this move as follows: "This was in the days of the Cold War and I had been appointed to head a team of academics in the Dutch Counterintelligence Service that analyzed the policies of the various communist countries. Our job was to slip into the skin of the opponents’ ideologies and figure out their intentions." He worked for a long time in a management position at the Domestic Security Service ("BVD") in The Hague and the

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Wim Statius Muller: Antillean Dances – Port-of-call: Curaçao

Antillean Dances

Antillean Treasures

Antillean Dances, opus 4

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Danzas Caribeñas

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CD bij boek Jan Brokken

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Antillean Dances Op. 4

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Antillean Dances, Op. 4

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Statius Muller Antillean Dances, Opus 2

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CME Presents: Piano Celebration

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Rarities of Piano Music at the "Schloss vor Husum" from the 2014 Festival

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Inspired by Chopin

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