Hubert du plessis biography channel

hubert du plessis biography channel

Hubert du Plessis

South African composer

Musical artist

Hubert du PlessisOMSG (7 June 1922 – 12 March 2011) was a South African composer, pianist, and professor of music whose career spanned several decades. Along with Arnold van Wyk and Stefans Grové, du Plessis was one of the foremost South African composers of the 20th century.

Biography

Hubert du Plessis was born to an Afrikaner family on a farm called Groenrivier in Malmesbury in the Western Cape on 7 June 1922. A musical prodigy from a young age, he began writing his own piano compositions by the time he was seven years old. In 1940 he enrolled in Stellenbosch University, becoming the first student at the university to graduate with a Bachelor of Music degree.

In 1943 he briefly worked for the South African Broadcasting Company in Cape Town, but soon after accepted a position with the department of music at Rhodes University, where he became a lecturer. From 1951 to 1954, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music

DE BEER, Hubert du Plessis.
Hubert du Plessis OMSG (7 June 1922 – 12 March 2011) was a South African composer, pianist, and professor of music whose career spanned several decades.
Hubert succeeded d'Esgly in and from the new bishop, who was less authoritarian than Briand, Plessis learned a more psychologically oriented approach to.

Requiemsurvey.org

  • Her contemporary, the Afrikaner composer Hubert du Plessis, for example, was able to study music at both Stellenbosch and Rhodes universities.

    • Hubert du Plessis - Wikipedia

      Hubert du Plessis OMSG (7 June – 12 March ) was a South African composer, pianist, and professor of music whose career spanned several decades.
    Obituary – Hubert du Plessis - Taylor & Francis Online

    Hubert du Plessis -

  • African composers, of whom W. H. Bell, F. H. Hartmann, A. van Wyk and H. du.

    • Plessis, Hubert (Lawrence) du -

  • Hubert Lawrence du Plessis was born on 7 June on the farm Groenrivier in the Malmesbury district.

    • Hubert Du Plessis - Facebook

      Du Plessis is a versatile musician who appeared in public as a pianist, harpsichord player and accompanist.

    Hubert du Plessis - Wikiwand

      Hubert Lawrence du Plessis was born on 7 June on a farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Western Cape.

    Plessis, Hubert (Lawrence) du -

      Hubert Lawrence du Plessis was born on 7 June 1922 on the farm Groenrivier in the Malmesbury district.

    Hubert du Plessis - Wikipedia

  • Hubert Lawrence du Plessis was born on 7 June 1922 on a farm in the district of Malmesbury in the Western Cape.