Henk Badings
Henk Badings (1907-1987). was a Dutch composer.
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Biography
General Henk Badings was born on January 17, 1907 and died on June 28, 1987. Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Hendrik Herman Badings became an orphan at an early age.
Having returned to the Netherlands, his family tried to dissuade him from studying music, and he enrolled at the Delft Polytechnical Institute (later the Technical University). He worked as a mining engineer and palaeontologist at Delft until 1937, after which he dedicated his life entirely to music.
In addition to composing, Badings taught and lectured (in the Netherlands and abroad), was a jury member in competitions, and published several books. He held numerous teaching positions; e.g., at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and the University of Utrecht.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Badings composed the music for the radio opera, Asterion, based on a text by N.P. van Wyk Louw. The work was commissioned by the SABC because his radiophonic opera Orestes had won the Italia Prize in 1954.
Sources
Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Stellenbosch.
https://donemus.nl/composer/henk-badings/
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