Willy Burkhard
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Willy Burkhard was an extremely influential composer of the 20th century. Burkhard was born on April 17, 1900 in canton of Berne, Switzerland, which is the second largest canton in all of Switzerland. He attended and graduated from a teachers’ training college called the Muristalden and went on to study with E. Graf in Berne. His studies led him even further in his travels including Leipzig to study piano with Robert Teichmüller and composition with Sigfrid Karg-Elert. <a href="https://www.last
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Willy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Evilard
- Place of death
- Zurich
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Genre
- classical music
- Official website
- www.willyburkhard.ch
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- date of birth
- 1900-04-17
- date of death
- 1955-06-18
- name in native language
- Willy Burkhard
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Schwarzhäusern
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