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Manneke, Daan

Nationality: Netherlands
Date of birth: 1939-11-07
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Daan Manneke was born on November 7, 1939 in Kruiningen (Netherlands).

Education: Daan Manneke received his first music lessons from Adriaan Kousemaker, music teacher and publisher in the town of Goes. In 1959, he began his studies at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg with Jan van Dijk (composition) and Huub Houët and Louis Toebosch (organ).

He later studied with Kamiel D’Hooghe in Bruges and Brussels.

His life and compositions took on a definitive form through his friendship with Ton de Leeuw, with whom he studied beginning in 1966 and who proved to be an lifelong source of inspiration.

For many years De Leeuw was the Netherlands’ sole advocate of, and expert in, non-Western music. Ton de Leeuw in turn brought Manneke into contact with Olivier Messiaen, with whom h