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Zwei Skizzen (Aus dem Osten) Op. 6

By Paul Seelig

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
Piano (pf)
status
published score
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number ABmf/0350

Details

Two sketches (from the east) for piano Op. 6

Originally published by Ries & Erler Berlin

About Paul Seelig

(? - 06/12/1945)
Paul Seelig

Paul Seelig lived most of his life on the island of Java, but he made trips to Europe, America, Australia, Japan and Siam. He had a music business in Bandung. In his music he combined Eastern and Western elements. He developed into a renowned composer and was programmed at the Wiener Festwochen and many other venues. During the war he remained on Java, at that time Dutch territory, while his other family members lived in the Netherlands. In 1943, he was interned in a camp where he died on June 12, 1945. Many of his manuscripts and compositions were lost.

by Henk Mak van Dijk