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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Willy Burkhard, Rene Wohlhauser, Eric Gaudibert, Ernst Levy, Conrad Beck, Sandor Veress, Margrit Zimmermann, Matthias Bamert, Wladimir Vogel, Heinz Holliger, Genevieve Calame, Tona Scherchen, Regina Irman, Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg, Geo Voumard, Rudolph Ganz, Hanspeter Kyburz, Jean Perrin, Beat Furrer, Walter Rehberg, Max E. Keller, Hermann Suter, Fritz Brun, Thuring Bram, Michael Jarrell, Patricia Junger, Bernhard Wagner, Volkmar Andreae, Hans Huber, Alberich Zwyssig, Mark Tschanz, Lothar Kempter, Marcel Sulzberger, Matthias Gohl, Paul Burkhard, Gustave Doret, Hans Munch, Rudolf Kelterborn, Bernard Hoffer, Willy Hess, Bernard Reichel, Fridolin Sicher, Thierry Lang, Johannes Aal, Henri Gagnebin, David Philip Hefti, Armin Schibler, Dominik Burkhalter, Guy Bovet, Edmond Louis Budry, Heidi Baader-Nobs, Norbert Moret, Jean Daetwyler, Oscar Wiggli, Fritz Bovet, Giorgio Koukl, Paul Giger, Klaus Huber, Meinrad Schutter, Friedrich Hegar, Werner Thomas, Carl Aeschbacher, Hans Gmur, Walther Aeschbacher, Stefan Keller, Alfred Baum, Huldreich Georg Fruh, Martin Schmid, Hans Jelmoli. Excerpt: Willy Burkhard (April 17, 1900, Evilard, Canton of Bern - June 18, 1955) was a Swiss composer. Willy Burkhard was an extremely influential composer of the 20th century. Burkhard was born in Evilard, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, which is the second largest canton in all of Switzerland. He attended and graduated from a teachers' training college called the Muristalden and went on to study with E. Graf in Berne. His studies led him even further in his travels including Leipzig to study piano with Robert Teichmuller and composition with Sigfrid Karg-Elert. After Leipzig he moved on to Munich to study with Walter Courvoisier and later to Paris to work with Max d'Ollone. It wasn't until 1924 that he began teaching composition, theory and the pi...
