Boudewijn Buckinx, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Boudewijn Buckinx

Belgian composer

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1945

Place of Birth: Lommel, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: composer, musician

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Boudewijn Buckinx

  • Boudewijn Buckinx (born Lommel, 28 March 1945) is a Belgian composer and writer on music. Buckinx attended the Antwerp Conservatory, and from 1964 studied composition and serial music with Lucien Goethals in Ghent, where he also studied electronic music at the IPEM (Visscher 2001).
  • In 1968 he attended Stockhausen’s composition studio in Darmstadt and participated in the composition of Stockhausen’s Musik fĂĽr ein Haus, contributing a quintet for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, and cello titled Atoom (Ritzel 1970, 13, 60–61; Iddon 2004, 89).
  • However, his principal influences are Mauricio Kagel and John Cage.
  • He also studied musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven, graduating in 1972 with a dissertation on Cage's Variations (Visscher 2001).

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