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Harmen Fraanje
Harmen Fraanje
jazz musician
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Michael Moore
Michael Moore
American jazz musician
2
Han Bennink
Han Bennink
Dutch musician
3
Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg
Dutch composer and jazz pianist
4
Gerry Hemingway
Gerry Hemingway
American drummer
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Michael Vatcher
Michael Vatcher
American jazz percussionist
6
Erik Bosgraaf
Erik Bosgraaf
musician
7
John Tchicai
John Tchicai
Danish free jazz saxophonist
8
John Butcher
John Butcher
English tenor and soprano saxophone player
9
Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi
Italian musician
10
Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin
musician
11
Conny Bauer
Conny Bauer
German musician
12
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
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Thomas Strønen
Thomas Strønen
Jazz drummer
14
Gebhard Ullmann
Gebhard Ullmann
German saxophonist
15
Arditti Quartet
Arditti Quartet
string quartet
16
Max Strub
Max Strub
German concertmaster
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Austrian conductor
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer and musician of the Baroque era
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Anton Webern
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
23
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German composer
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Dutch musician
Awards Received
Paul Acket Award

Ernst Reijseger (born 13 November 1954) is a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music and often gives solo concerts. He has worked with Louis Sclavis, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, Gerry Hemingway, Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Mangelsdorff, Franco D'Andrea, Joëlle Léandre, Georg Gräwe, Trilok Gurtu, and Mola Sylla, and has done several world music projects working with musicians from Sardinia, Turkey, Iran, Senegal, and Argentina, as well as the Netherlands-based group Boi Akih.

He has made numerous recordings, both as solo cellist and with other groups, and has been the subject of a documentary film. He has also written several film scores, including scores for a number of Werner Herzog films.