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Ad Wammes (born 1953, Vreeswijk) is a Dutch composer. His notable compositions include pieces "Miroir" ("Mirror", 1989) for organ, and "Different Colours", two books which contain 12 pieces each for piano. [1]
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Ad Wammes (born 1953, Vreeswijk) is a Dutch composer. His notable compositions include pieces "Miroir" ("Mirror", 1989) for organ, and "Different Colours", two books which contain 12 pieces each for piano. [1]
Johann Pachelbel was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era.
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Maurice Gustave Duruflé was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher.
Louis Couperin was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–1651 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. Couperin worked as organist of the Church of St. Gervais in Paris and as musician at the court. He quickly became one of the most prominent Parisian musicians, establishing himself as a harpsichordist, organist, and violist, but his career was cut short by his early death at the age of thirty-five.
Arnolt Schlick was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. He was most probably born in Heidelberg and by 1482 established himself as court organist for the Electorate of the Palatinate. Highly regarded by his superiors and colleagues alike, Schlick played at important historical events, such as the election of Maximilian I as King of the Romans, and was widely sought after as organ consultant throughout his career. The last known references to him are from 1521; the circumstances of his death are unknown.
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The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. The idea for the free reed was imported from China through Russia after 1750, and the first Western free-reed instrument was made in 1780 in Denmark.
Max Georg Baumann was a German composer.
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Daniel Moult is a concert organist, educator and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.
Jeffrey Wammes is a former internationally competitive Dutch gymnast. Specializing in the floor exercise and vault, Wammes began competing on the elite level in 2005. Wammes trained alongside Yuri van Gelder at the Flik-Flak club in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Ad is a first name. It is common in the Netherlands, where it is almost always short for Adrianus or Adriaan. In America it can be short for Adolph, Adam, Addison, and others. People with the first name of Ad include:
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Hans-AndréStamm is a German organist and freelance composer who lives in Leverkusen, near Cologne, in Germany.
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Nick Wammes is a Canadian track cyclist competing in the sprint events.
Gabriëlla Wammes is a Dutch artistic gymnast.
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