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Kees van Baaren
Kees van Baaren
Dutch composer
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Reinbert de Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw
Dutch conductor
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Diderik Wagenaar
Diderik Wagenaar
Dutch composer
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Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg
Dutch composer and jazz pianist
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Theo Loevendie
Theo Loevendie
Dutch composer
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Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Dutch composer and pianist
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Hendrik Andriessen
Hendrik Andriessen
Dutch composer, organist and music educator
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Guus Janssen
Guus Janssen
Dutch composer
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Tristan Keuris
Tristan Keuris
Dutch composer
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Klas Torstensson
Klas Torstensson
composer
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Ton de Leeuw
Ton de Leeuw
Dutch composer
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Erik Bosgraaf
Erik Bosgraaf
musician
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
French composer, conductor, writer and pianist
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José Serebrier
José Serebrier
Uruguayan conductor and composer
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Henk Badings
Henk Badings
Dutch composer born in Java
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Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr
English composer
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Dick Raaymakers
Dick Raaymakers
Dutch composer
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Anton Webern
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
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Daryl Runswick
Daryl Runswick
British musician
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Peter Erős
Peter Erős
Hungarian-American symphony and opera conductor
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David Diamond
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
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Daan Manneke
Daan Manneke
Dutch composer
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Dutch composer
Awards Received
Matthijs Vermeulen Award
Joost van den Vondel Prize
Music
Peter Schat (1968)

Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935, in Utrecht – 3 February 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer.

Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the Utrecht Conservatoire and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then went on to study in London with Mátyás Seiber in 1959 and with Pierre Boulez in Basle in 1960–61. His early training with van Baaren and Seiber disposed him toward twelve-tone technique, and his earliest compositions, such as the Introductie en adagio in oude stijl (1954) and the Septet (1957), combine traditional forms with dodecaphony. Boulez, however, led him to a more radical, strict form of serialism, and he was regarded in the Netherlands as one of the outstanding representatives of the avant garde. While still a student he created his opus 1, Passacaglia and Fugue for organ (1954), and Septet (1957). In 1957 he also won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award.

In the late sixties Schat became associated with the Provo (movement); their publications were printed in his cellar. He was involved in the notorious 1969 "notenkrakersactie" (Nutcracker Action) in which a group of activists interrupted a concert by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, demanding an open discussion of music policy. That same year, Schat contributed, together with the composers Reinbert de Leeuw, Louis Andriessen, Jan van Vlijmen, and Misha Mengelberg, and the writers Harry Mulisch and Hugo Claus, in Reconstructie, a sort of opera, or "morality" theatre work, about the conflict between American imperialism and liberation.

In February 1969 he co-founded the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam. Among his most widely noted works are Thema (from 1970) and To You (from 1972). To You was performed at the Holland Festival.

The 1970s also brought Schat's most distinctive contribution to 20th-century music theory, the "tone clock". It lends its name to a translation of his collected essays, The Tone Clock (Contemporary Music Studies) (1993, Taylor and Francis Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7186-5369-0).

Schat died in 2003 from cancer.