Henri Arends

Henri Arends ( * 1921 in Maastricht, † 1993 in Lanaken ) was a Dutch conductor.

Henri Arends belonged to that generation of conductors who gave the same attention of the modern and the classical and romantic music.

Initially a violinist, he later took part Conductor courses at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Carlo Zecchi and in the Accademia Chigiana to Siena under Paul van Kempen.

Even then he fell on by his mature interpretations and through his extraordinary musical memory. Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had him with the Mozarteum Orchestra see work prophesied a brilliant career.

From 1953 to 1957 he was initially auxiliary conductor and later assistant conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, under the first conductor Eduard van Beinum, and coach of the Toonkunst Coord.

As a first conductor and musical director of the Noord Holland Philharmonic Orchestra since 1957, he attracted the attention by its quite new treatment of the large repertoire and his highly original attempts to attract a new audience for the concert hall, up. One of these successful enterprises was the initiative of the " hearts desire Festival" for the growing youth.

As a guest conductor he has been celebrated in numerous concerts at home and abroad, where audience members of the orchestra and critics welcomed him with sympathy, praised him and admired.

He has conducted the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hilversum, Paris, Helsinki, on the FOK Orchestra of Prague, the Phil Harmonen of Brno, Ostrava, Krakow, Lodz, Katowice, Gdansk, Budapest, Innsbruck, Osnabrück, Aachen and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. He has also conducted several orchestras in South Africa ( Cape Town and Johannesburg) and the USA (New York and Baton Rouge).

• Conductor
• Netherlander
• Born 1921
• Died in 1993
• Man