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GERARD SCHURMANN IN INTERVIEW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2005

Earl Tomson
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Gerard Schurmann was born of Dutch parents in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924, but spent more than 40 years, including the most formative period of his musical life, in England before moving to the US in 1981. Even during his years in the Netherlands as orchestral conductor with the Dutch Radio in his early twenties, he maintained an apartment in London, sometimes commuting to his place of work in Hilversum. His experience was similar to Bernard van Dieren, another Dutch-born composer who lived in England, although not for as many years as Schurmann: Holland has made no particular move to claim either as a Dutch composer. It was in England that Schurmann developed his skills and persona as a musician, after arriving as a teenager in 1941.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Volume 59 , Issue 231 , January 2005 , pp. 17 - 28
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© Cambridge University Press 2005

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