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Henk Badings , 1907-87, Dutch composer, b. Bandung, Java (now Indonesia). Badings studied with Willem Pijper after working as a mining engineer. An extremely prolific composer, he started writing electronic music in the 1950s. Some of his compositions utilize scales of alternating whole and half steps and pluritonality. Badings's first symphony was written in 1930; other works are the electronic ballet Evolutions (1958) and the television opera Salto Mortale (1959) for voices and electronic accompaniment.

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Badings, Henk (b Bandoeng, Java, 1907; d Vijlen, 1987). Dutch composer. Taught at Rotterdam Cons. from 1934; co-dir. Amsterdam Lyceum 1937–41; dir. Hague Cons. 1941–5; dir. EMS, Utrecht Univ., 1960–4; Prof. of comp. Musikhochschule, Stuttgart, 1962–72. Comps. incl. several operas and 14 syms., 25 concs., chamber mus., and elec. works. His sonata No.2 for 2 vn. (1963) is in 31-note scale and his ballet Genesis (1968) for 5 tone-generators.

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