1. Willem Jeths was born on 31 August 1959 and is a Dutch classical composer.
11 Facts About Willem Jeths
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Willem Jeths started his musical career as a child with piano and music theory lessons in the Music School of Amersfoort with Paul Seeling.
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Willem Jeths originally studied in the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, from 1980 to 1982.
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Willem Jeths continued with composition in the Conservatory of Utrecht with Hans Cox and Tristan Keuris.
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Parallel to composition Jeths studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam.
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Willem Jeths completed his studies with a doctoral dissertation about Elisabeth Kuyper, which was later published in the book Zes vrouwelijke componisten.
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Willem Jeths is composition teacher at the Conservatory of Amsterdam since 2007.
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Willem Jeths was composition teacher at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg from 2003 to 2007.
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Willem Jeths has written many works for chamber music but he is mainly focused on works for orchestra.
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Willem Jeths won the Composition price from the Conservatory of Utrecht in 1988.
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In 1996, Willem Jeths received the third prize in the Internationaler Wiener Kompositionswettbewerb for his violin concerto Glenz.