Alphons Diepenbrock | fr
Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock (September 2, 1862 in Amsterdam – April 5, 1921) was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.
He studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age.
He created a musical idiom which, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to which in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy's music.
His predominantly vocal output is distinguished by the high quality...
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Alphonso originally started off as a horn player, but he would eventually switch to the bass in his late teens. Beginning his career in the early 70s, Alphonso was amongst the few electric bassists of his time that showed innovation and fluidity on the electric bass. He sessioned with a few Jazz musicians before landing the Weather Report job taking over for co-founding member Miroslav Vitous.
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