Lodewijk Muns is a Dutch academic, musicologist, author, and musician. He graduated in

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at the

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, and later studied at the

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with pianists Geoffrey Madge and Stanley Hoogland. He works in a non- tonal (or allusively-tonal) idiom. ''Pedrillo Botón'', a chamber opera for an audience of children and adults, is his only extensive work in a tonal idiom. He also writes both non fiction and fiction. He is now an independent scholar, lecturer, and musician living in The Hague. He wrote a soundtrack for the recently rediscovered silent film ''Europa'' in 2021.

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