Misha Mengelberg
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- Enkele regels in de dierentuin
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- AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg) — Himself2006
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Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg was born in Kiev, Ukraine, the son of the Dutch conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg. His family moved back to the Netherlands in the late 1930s and the young Mengelberg began learning the piano at age five Mengelberg briefly studied architecture before entering the Royal Conservatory in T
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Mengelberg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- Amsterdam
- Father
- Karel Mengelberg
- Occupation
- chess player
- Educated at
- Royal Conservatory of The Hague
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Sport
- chess
- Image
- Misja Mengelberg (1968).jpg
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- Misha Mengelberg
- date of birth
- 1935-06-05
- date of death
- 2017-03-03
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- name in native language
- Misja Mengelberg
- P12674
- Ken Owen
- partner in business or sport
- Louis Andriessen
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