Harry Bannink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harry Bannink

Dutch composer

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1929

Place of Birth: Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1999

Profession: composer, pianist, musician, songwriter, music arranger

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Harry Bannink

  • Harry Bannink (10 April 1929, Enschede – 19 October 1999, Bosch en Duin) was a Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.
  • He wrote over 3,000 songs. Bannink studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, receiving his degree in 1946.
  • He started his musical career in the late fifties, when he joined a small dance-orchestra as pianist.
  • His compositions for the play "Het staat u vrij" (Delftsch Studenten Corps, 1958) where his first works for the theatre.
  • Later he would write music for lots of songs by Wim Sonneveld, Wieteke Van Dort and especially Annie M.G.
  • Schmidt.
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  • He wrote music for many Dutch TV-shows, including Ja zuster, nee zuster, 't Schaep met de 5 poten, Sesamstraat, and De Stratemakeropzeeshow.
  • Since 1973 he worked with Edwin Rutten on the weekly children's TV show De film van ome Willem (in which he appeared as head of the music-ensemble on every episode) and writer Willem Wilmink, with whom he wrote a lot of songs for the Dutch children's education programme Het Klokhuis.Together with Annie M.G.
  • Schmidt he wrote several Dutch musicals.
  • Later, he would also write the music for the funeral of Schmidt.
  • Among his last musical activities were a CD - on which he sang some of his own compositions - and a book with piano-arrangements of all the songs from the series Ja zuster, nee zuster.
  • He died, aged 70, of cardiac arrest and was buried at the Nieuwe Algemene Begraafplaats, Woudenbergseweg in Zeist. In 2000, a documentary about Harry Bannink and his work was released on Dutch television.
  • In his birthplace Enschede, a theatre was named after him, as was a street in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

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