Vranken, Jaap
Vranken, Jaap
Vranken, Jaap, Dutch organist, teacher, and composer; b. Utrecht, April 16,1897; d. The Hague, April 20, 1956. He was the son of the organist Joseph Vranken (1870-1948), with whom he studied organ and theory. From 1916 to 1918 he was in the U.S., studying with Percy Goetschius. He returned to the Netherlands in 1920, and was appointed organist at the church of St. Anthonius in The Hague. Vranken acquired a fine reputation as a teacher. He composed mostly sacred music, and he also wrote instrumental music in Classical style and publ. a manual on counterpoint (1948).
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