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Name  Anner Bylsma
Children  Carine Bijlsma
Movies  Bach: The Art of Fugue
Spouse  Vera Beths
Role  Author

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Albums  Baroque Music for Cello
Similar People  Vera Beths, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Bruggen, Jos Van Immerseel, Sigiswald Kuijken

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Anner Bylsma (born Anne Bijlsma 17 February 1934, The Hague) is a Dutch cellist who plays on both modern and period instruments in a historically informed style. He took an interest in music from an early age. He studied with Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and won the Prix d'excellence in 1957.

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Anner Bylsma Anner Bylsma Cello Short Biography

In 1959, he won the first prize in the Pablo Casals Competition in Mexico. Later he was for six years (from 1962 to 1968) the principal cellist in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He became an Erasmus Scholar at Harvard University in 1982. He is the author of the book Bach, the Fencing Master, a stylistic and aesthetic analysis of Bach's Cello Suites. He is one of the pioneers of the 'Dutch Baroque School' and rose to fame as a partner of Frans Brüggen and Gustav Leonhardt, who toured extensively together and made many recordings. Bylsma continues to be a towering figure in the baroque cello movement.

Anner Bylsma Conversation with Anner Bylsma

In 1979 Bylsma recorded the six Suites for unaccompanied cello (BWV 1007–1012) by J. S. Bach, the first of its kind on a period instrument. He later went on to recreate the same music in 1992 on the large Servais Stradivarius and on a five-string violoncello piccolo.

Anner Bylsma Anner Bylsma Bach Cello Solo Nr1 BWV 1007 72000

Anner Bylsma is married to Dutch violinist Vera Beths. He has a son and a daughter, documentary filmmaker Carine Bijlsma.

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Anner Bylsma: Bach Cello Solo Nr.1, BWV 1007 (7.2000)



Anner Bylsma JS Bach Cello Suite No6 Gavotte Anner Bylsma YouTube

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