Jaap Kool (1891 - 1959)

A composer with great ties to Berlin was Jaap Kool (1891–1959) who studied at the Stern Conservatorium, and remained linked to the German world both as a composer and as a conductor and saxophonist. He composed music to accompany ballerinas. Kool was the Dutch composer who most embodied the new musician of the inter-war years: a multi-instrumentalist, capable of fusing primitive dances with classical forms, and equally at ease as a composer of large symphonic forms, of small piano pieces.