* Den Haag, 13 XII 1920 + Airolo, 15 IX 1993. Musicologo olandese. Studi di vcl. e teoria ai cons. di Amsterdam e di Den Haag e di musicologia all'Univ. di Amsterdam e alla Sorbonne di Parigi. Prof. alla scuola di mus. di Bussum (1951-53) e al cons. di Amsterdam, lavorò come assistente (1951-55) presso la bibl. pubbl. e la Toonkunst-Bibliotheek di Amsterdam. Dal 1956 al 1968 diresse queste due bibl. e prima di succedere a Bernet Kempers quale prof. ordinario di musicologia presso l'Univ. di Amsterdam, fu prof. straordinario presso l'Univ. di Leiden (1965-68). Fu inoltre prof. ospite presso molte Univ. europee e americane. Dal 1985 risiedette nel Cantone Ticino.

 

SCRITTI: La mélodie francaise de Berlioz à Duparc, Amsterdam e Parigi 1954; Une partition hollandaise d'Athalie in Mélanges P.M.- Masson II, Parigi 1955; Two problems in seventeenth century notation in AMl XXVII-XXVIII (1955-56); Rondom het Orgeltractaat van C. Huygens in TVer XVII (1956); Schumann und die Niederländische Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Tonkunst in R. Schumann, herausgegeben von H.J. Moser und E. Rebling, Lipsia 1956; Quelques remarques sur les luthistes aux Pays-Bas in Le Luth et sa Musique in Atti del congresso di Parigi 1958; Das ausserdeutsche Sololied in Das Musikwerk XVI, Köln 1958; Le principe structural génétique dans l'oeuvre instrumentale de Joseph Haydn in RBM, XII (1958), 35; Joannes Tollius, ein ndl. Meister des Frühbarocks in "Atti del congresso di Köln 1958 della SIM”, Kassel 1959, 203-207; Chr.J. Hollander en zijn Tricinia in TVer XVIII (1959); Sweelinck's Keyboard Music: Organ or Harpsichord? in TVer XIX (1960); Het Nederlandse kinderlied in de achttiende eeuw ìn Tver XIX, 3/4, 1962-63; J. Bull's Dutch Carol in ML XLIV (1963); Padbrué en Vondel in Organicae voces, Fs.J. Smits van Waesberghe, Amsterdam 1963; Bemerkungen zur Fermate in MF XVII (1964); The Linköping Faignient-Manuscript in Aml XXXVI (1964); Beschouwingen ower de periodisering der muziekgeschiedenis, Leiden 1965; Early Sources of the Dutch National Anthem (1574-1626) in FÀM XIII (1966); Musical Quotation as a Dramatic Device. The Fourth Act of "Le nozze di Figaro" in MQ LIV (1968); The Cantiones Natalitia in Essays in Musicology, Fs. W. Apel, Bloomington/Ind. 1968; D.J. Padbrué in Renaissance-muziek 1400-1600, Fs. R.B. Lenaerts, in Musicologica Lovaniensia I, Löwen 1969; Social Tensions in “Le nozze di Figaro" in ML (1969); Forma formans: een structuuranalytische methode, toegepast op de instrumentale muziek van Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Amsterdam 1969; Verdi and the Musical Figure of Death in 3. congresso internazionale di studi verdiani; Milano 1972, 349-86; “Don Giovanni": an Interpretation of the Opera as Drama in “Theatre Research” XIII (1973), 60; Zum Struckturverfahren in den Sinfonien von J. Stamitz in Musicae scientiae collectanea, Fs. K.G.Fellerer, Köln 1973; Verdi und die Belagerung von Haarlem in Convivium musicorum: Fs. Wolfang Boetticher, Berlino 1974, 236; Schiller e la genesi del "Macbeth" verdiano in NRMI X (1976), 196; The Signifier and the Signified: Studies in the Opera of Mozart and Verdi, Den Haag 1977, [collezione di articoli]; Das exogene Todesmotiv in den Musikdramen Richard Wagners in MF XXXI (1978), 285-302; Zur Semantik der Orchestration in Mozarts Opern in Mozart-Jahrbuch 1978/79, 88-94; Otello: Drama through Structure in Essays in Music for Charles Warren Fox, Rochester NY 1979, 14-47; Verdi's Macbeth: Romanticism or Realism? in Ars Musica - Musica Scientia, Fs. Heinrich Hüschen, Köln 1980, 359-363; Sound and Sentiment: the Function of Music in the Gothic Novel in ML, vol.62, 1981, 162-175; Verbal to Musical Drama: Adaptation or Creation? in Themes in Drama III, Cambridge 1981, 143-152; Melodic Determinants in Tonal Structures in Muzikoloski Zbornik”, vol.17, 1981, 111-121; Affectus, Figura and Modal Structure in Constantijn Huygens'sPathodia (1647) in TVer XXXII (1982), 51-76; Corelli's "Ciacona": Some Analytical Remarks in Nuovissimi Studi Correlliani, Firenze 1982, 15-28; The Captain and the Doctor in Wozzeck in Analytica, Studies in the Description and Analysis of Music in Honour of Ingmar Bengtsson, Stockholm 1985, 269-275; An Unknown Work by Monteverdi: the Vespers of St. John the Baptist in ML, vol.66, 1985, 118-122; Sweelinck in Oxford Studies of Composers 22, Oxford 1988; Music Bridging Divided Religions: The Motet in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic, Wilhelmshaven 1989, 2 voll.

 

EDIZIONI: Dix Romances Francaises, Amsterdam 1950; C. Huygens, Pathodia sacra et profana, Amsterdam e Kassel 1957; Das ausserdeutsche Sololied in Das Musikwerk XVI, Köln 1958; C. T. Padbrué: Dat ick betovert ben, Amsterdam 1958; Klavierboek Anna Maria van Eijl in MNN, Amsterdam 1959, rev. 2/1976; M. Mascitti; Psyche, Mainz 1959; C. T. Padbrué: Nederlandse madrigalen in MMN, Amsterdam 1962; H. Speuy, Psalm Preludes per org. o clav., Philadelphia 1963; Six Seventeenth-century Carols from the Netherlands, London 1965; J.P. Sweelinck: The Instrumental Works(in collab. con A. Annegarn e G. Leonhardt), Amsterdam 1968, rev. 2/1974; J.A. Ban: Zangh-bloemzel & Kort sangh-bericht, Amsterdam 1969; Brevia musicae rudimenta latino-belgicae/Corte onderwijsinghe van de musike int Latijn ende Duyts; D.A. Valcooch: Den regel der Duytsche schoolmeesters [parte mus.], Amsterdam 1973; H. Hollanders: Concerti ecclesiastici (in collab . con A. Verhoeven) in MMN, XII (1976); Jan Baptist Verrijt: Eighteen Motets from "Flammae Divinae" (1649) in MMN, XVI (1985); Servaas de Koninck: Trios op. 1 und op. 4 (1696-98), Wilhelmshaven 1988, 3 voll.