Willem Tanke (born April 4, 1959 in Hengelo, the Netherlands) is an organist and acclaimed recitalist known for his interpretations of works by J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen and contemporary composers. In addition he is noted for his own musical language as an improviser and a performing composer. As a teenager, he was drawn especially to wanting to play the organ by the religiously-inspired music of J.S. Bach and Olivier Messiaen, and also John Coltrane.
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Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist
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Pierre Pincemaille
French organist
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Jeanne Demessieux
French composer, pianist, organist and music teacher
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Thomas Daniel Schlee
Austrian composer
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Louis Vierne
French organist and composer
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William Albright
Composer, pianist, organist
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Naji Hakim
Lebanese-French composer, organist and improviser
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Sigfrid Karg-Elert
German composer
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Wolfgang Rübsam
German musician
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Elsa Barraine
French composer (b. 1910)
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Ton de Leeuw
Dutch composer
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Hendrik Andriessen
Dutch composer, organist and music educator
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Rued Langgaard
Danish composer and organist
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Jacques Charpentier
French composer
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Jurriaan Andriessen
Dutch composer
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André Jolivet
French composer
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Jean-Pierre Leguay
French musician
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Simon Preston
British musician
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Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti