Henk Badings

Synopsis

Dutch composer

• 1907 born in Banding, Java.
• 1915 was orphaned and left Java for the Netherlands.
• 1930 while a student at the Technical University in Delft, Badings sat for an exam and began composition studies with Willem Pijper, after having taught himself composition and music theory. He soon broke with Pijper, however, due to differences in style.
• 1931-1937 following the wishes of his guardian, Badings graduated from the Technical University in Delft and was appointed demonstrator in palaeontology and historical geology there.
• 1934 Badings was appointed lecturer in composition and theory at the Rotterdam Conservatory.
• 1937 became co-director of the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum, at which point he left the Technical University to devote himself to music.
• 1941-45, during the German occupation, he directed the State Conservatory in The Hague; he was subsequently punished for holding the post and banned for some years from public life. He made his living during this time as a freelance composer.
• 1960–61 directed the electronic music studio at the University of Utrecht.
• 1961-77 appointed to teach acoustics at the University of Utrecht.
• 1962-72 professor of composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Stuttgart. He travelled and lectured extensively in the United States and in South Africa.
• 1987 died in Maarheeze, Netherlands.

According to Wikipedia, "Badings used unusual musical scales and harmonies (e.g., the octatonic scale); he also used the harmonic series scale from the eighth to the fifteenth overtone." He wrote many pieces for organ with solo instrument, and many organ preludes and fugues. He also employed the forms of canzona, toccata, and concerto. Corliss Arnold describes his work as typically romantic, but lists a piece for organ and electronic tape among his works. According to Oxford Music Online, Badings employed "various scales of six, or especially eight notes, systems built on harmonic or subharmonic series and micro-intervals, in particular as part of a 31-note scale. However, Badings also retained a preference for counterpoint, a gift for striking instrumentation and great care for formal integration."[1]

For details, see the Wikipedia article on Henk Badings.

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