Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (

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, 12 September 1868 –

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, 7 December 1933) was a

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who came from a long line of Dutch

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s and

s of

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. His father was an organ player in the town of

in the Netherlands, where Jan was born. He studied at the Raff Conservatory in

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and in 1892 settled in Vienna, where he got to know

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, who, along with

Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic music, Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwid ...

, praised his early works. His

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won an important international prize and such famous artists as

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often included his songs on the same program with those of

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Work

Brandts Buys' oeuvre comprises piano pieces,

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pieces,

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, orchestral music, songs, pieces for choir and

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s and many arrangements - such as piano arrangements of all the symphonies of

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and

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). However, his reputation today mainly rests on his comic operas and

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s, such as ''The Tailors of Schönau''

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and ''The Man in the Moon''

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which gained considerable international acclaim. These two operas, along with '' Glockenspiel''

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and ''Der Eroberer''

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were first performed at the

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, with casts that included the young

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. Of the ten chamber music works he wrote, only the ''Romantische Serenade (Romantic Serenade)'', composed in 1905, was performed with any regularity before disappearing shortly after his death. In the United States, it figured in the first New York program given by the

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after returning from its formative years in Europe, at which time the work had been heard in that city only once before.”Zoellner Quartet Plays: Displays Ability on Its First Appearance Here,” ''The New York Times'', January 8, 1914. The quartet continued to program the serenade as late as 1919.University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Digital Library, advertisement for Zoellner Quartet from ''Musical America''
August 16, 1919, accessed June 3, 2012.

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