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Danzi Kwintet

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Classical

The Danzi Quintet was a Dutch wind quintet, one of the most highly regarded quintets active in the 1960s and 1970sThe quintet took its name from the 18th/19th-century composer Franz Danzi (a notable early composer of wind quintets), and was founded in 1956 or 1957 by the flutist Frans Vester. It was composed of members of the Concertgebouw and Dutch Opera Orchestras, and was initially formed in order to perform the Dutch premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Wind Quintet, op. 26, which they did—after 107 rehearsals over the course of a year—at the 1958 Holland Festival (, 450; , 289). The other founding members of the quintet were Leo Driehuys (oboe), Pem Godri (clarinet), Brian Pollard (bassoon), and Adriaan van Woudenberg (horn) (, 51). Vester played in the quintet for the entire period of its

Members

	Iman Soeteman alp *1935
	Adriaan van Woudenberg alp *1925
	Ku Ebbinge ob *1948
	Brian Pollard bsn 1930-2013 GB
	Frans R. Berkhout bsn
	Maarten Karres ob
	Piet Honingh cl *1935 NL
	Frans Vester fl 1922-1987 NL
	Masashi Honma ob JP
	Koen Van Slogteren ob 1922-1995 DE
	Harry Bijholt cl
	Peter Steinmann alp *1954 NL
	Toshiyuki Hasegawa ob JP