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- ↑ John Warrack The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera 1996 -- Page 234 De triomfeerende Min (1678, to celebrate the Peace of Nijmegen), by Carolus Hacquart (c.1640'?1701), is often claimed as the first Dutch opera but is really a pastoral play with music, Attempts at Dutch opera were made by Hendrik Anders (1657-1714) and Servaas de Konink (7-1717 or 1718), especially in the latter's De vnjadje van Cloris en Roosje (1688, lost)."