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Harry Sparnaay (born 1944) is a noted Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 bass clarinet
Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet....
ist, composer, and teacher.

Sparnaay specializes in new music, and over 500 compositions have been written for him, by composers including Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Italian orders of merit was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental music work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music....
, Philip Czaplowski
Philip Czaplowski

Australian composer Philip Czaplowski was born in London in 1958, and migrated to Australia in 1969. He lives in Melbourne, where he completed a PhD in music composition at Monash University under the supervision of Dr....
, Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman went through several compositional phases....
, Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an England composer of contemporary classical music. His complex, multi-layered music is always distinctive when performed, and led Pierre Boulez to refer to it as a 'polyphony of polyphonies'....
, Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis was a Greeks modernist composer, musical theoretician, and architect. He is regarded as an important and influential composer of the twentieth century....
, and Isang Yun
Isang Yun

Isang Yun was a Korean-Germany composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was given a political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a Naturalization German citizen, following his abduction and torture in the 60s by the South Korean secret service and having been sentence...
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Sparnaay's notable students include Michael Lowenstern
Michael Lowenstern

Michael Lowenstern in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood, is an American bass clarinetist and composer specializing in Contemporary classical music....
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Harry Sparnaay (born 1944) is a noted Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 bass clarinet
Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet....
ist, composer, and teacher.

Sparnaay specializes in new music, and over 500 compositions have been written for him, by composers including Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Italian orders of merit was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental music work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music....
, Philip Czaplowski
Philip Czaplowski

Australian composer Philip Czaplowski was born in London in 1958, and migrated to Australia in 1969. He lives in Melbourne, where he completed a PhD in music composition at Monash University under the supervision of Dr....
, Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman went through several compositional phases....
, Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an England composer of contemporary classical music. His complex, multi-layered music is always distinctive when performed, and led Pierre Boulez to refer to it as a 'polyphony of polyphonies'....
, Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis was a Greeks modernist composer, musical theoretician, and architect. He is regarded as an important and influential composer of the twentieth century....
, and Isang Yun
Isang Yun

Isang Yun was a Korean-Germany composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was given a political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a Naturalization German citizen, following his abduction and torture in the 60s by the South Korean secret service and having been sentence...
.

Sparnaay's notable students include Michael Lowenstern
Michael Lowenstern

Michael Lowenstern in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood, is an American bass clarinetist and composer specializing in Contemporary classical music....
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