Boudewijn Buckinx

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Boudewijn Buckinx (born 28 March 1945, in Lommel) is a Belgian composer and writer on music.

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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. [1] In 1968 he attended Stockhausen's composition studio in Darmstadt and participated in the composition of Stockhausen's Musik für ein Haus , contributing a quintet for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, and cello titled Atoom. [2] [3] 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. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Visscher 2001.
  2. Ritzel (1970), pp. 13, 60–61.
  3. Iddon 2004, p. 89.

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