1. Julius Röntgen (1855)

Dutch Musician

Classical musician who produced 25 symphonies and a plethora of concertos and chamber music. He finished Grieg's String Quartet No. 2.

2. Martijn Spierenburg (1975)

Dutch Musician

Dutch composer who rose to fame as the keyboardist for the symphonic rock band Within Temptation. He is also recognized for having contributed to the Hollow Hell Part 2: Blood on Your...

3. Pim Jacobs (1934)

Dutch Musician

Jazz artist and television presenter known for his Pim Jacobs Trio, which featured famed jazz guitarist Wim Overgaauw.

4. Jan Bechtum (1958)

Dutch Musician

Former guitarist of the Dutch heavy metal band Picture who wrote most of the music for their first three albums.

5. Sharon Doorson (1987)

Dutch Musician

Dutch singer whose debut album "Killer" spawned three Top 30 singles in 2013. He is also known for her work in the all-girl band Raffish.

6. Candy Dulfer (1969)

Dutch Musician

Known for her Grammy-nominated album Saxuality, as well as for being a session musician for bands like The Eurythmics.

7. Jacqueline Govaert (1982)

Dutch Musician

Pop punk/rock singer who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop rock band Krezip, whose megahit song "I Would Stay" was given the title of All Time...

8. Anneke van Giersbergen (1973)

Dutch Musician

Singer, musician, and songwriter who is frontwoman of the progressive alternative rock band The Gathering.

9. Chad Butler (1974)

Dutch Musician

Co-founder of and the drummer for the alternative rock band Switchfoot, the group known for songs like "Dare You To Move."

10. Mark Jansen (1978)

Dutch Musician

Guitarist most famous for being a founding member of the Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. Following the band's breakup in 2002, he founded two more symphonic metal bands: Epica and...

11. Adrian Vandenberg (1954)

Dutch Musician

Guitarist for the rock band Whitesnake and for Vandenberg, which he founded in 1981. He also co-founded MoonKings at the end of 2013.

12. Sander Gommans (1978)

Dutch Musician

Famous as a founder of the symphonic metal group After Forever, this Dutch guitarist, singer, and songwriter also became known for his collaborations with German musician Michael Kiske and American vocalist Amanda...

13. Robert Westerholt (1975)

Dutch Musician

Co-founder, lead guitarist, and a backing vocalist of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation.

14. Ruud Jolie (1976)

Dutch Musician

Guitarist for the symphonic metal band Within Temptation who has also pursued a solo career, including the project For All We Know.

15. Richard Hallebeek (1969)

Dutch Musician

Richard Hallebeek is a Dutch jazz fusion guitarist.

16. Tim Kliphuis (1974)

Dutch Musician

Tim Kliphuis is a Dutch violinist renowned for mixing gypsy jazz with classical and folk music. He first became known during his student years in Amsterdam in 1999 when he...

17. Melissa Venema (1995)

Dutch Musician

Melissa Venema is a Dutch trumpeter.

18. Stephen Emmer (1958)

Dutch Musician

Stephen Emmer is a Dutch musician and composer. After releasing an album in 1982 he worked in television. He released the album Recitement in 2008 combining his music with spoken...

19. Jaap Schröder (1925)

Dutch Musician

Jaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder is a Dutch violinist conductor and pedagogue. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France. In the 1960s he was a...

20. Annette Kruisbrink (1958)

Dutch Musician

Annette Kruisbrink is a Dutch classical guitarist and composer.

21. The Child of Lov (1987)

Dutch Musician

Martijn William Zimri Teerlinck known as Cole Williams or The Child of Lov was a musician born in Belgium but raised in Amsterdam and Alkmaar The Netherlands. The debut single...

22. Louis Andriessen (1939)

Dutch Musician

Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He was a composition teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International...

23. Tonny Eyk (1940)

Dutch Musician

Tonny Eyk is a Dutch pianist entertainer and writer. Eyk is also known for his appearances as a member of jury in various television shows including Sterrenslag Soundmixshow and Mini...

24. Louis van Dijk (1941)

Dutch Musician

Louis van Dijk also spelled Louis van Dyke is a Dutch pianist. Van Dijk studied solo piano at the Amsterdam Conservatorium. He played with Pim Jacobs and Pieter van Vollenhoven...

25. Edo de Waart (1941)

Dutch Musician

Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor and the Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic and an Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber...

26. Han Bennink (1942)

Dutch Musician

Han Bennink is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist.

27. Pim Koopman (1953)

Dutch Musician

us Frederikus Koopman was the drummer and percussionist of the Dutch Progressive rock band Kayak.

28. Max Werner (1953)

Dutch Musician

Max Werner was lead singer drummer and percussionist of the Dutch Progressive rock band Kayak. He co-founded the band along with keyboardist Ton Scherpenzeel guitarist Johan Slager and drummer Pim...

29. Henkie (1945)

Dutch Musician

Henkie is a Dutch singer. Born in Elst Netherlands he is famous for his 2006 Belgian chart-topper Lief Klein Konijntje and the 2007 single Mijn Goudvis.

30. Hans van Hemert (1945)

Dutch Musician

Hans van Hemert is a Dutch ASCAP award winning record producer and songwriter. Mouth & MacNeal and Luv' are among the pop acts he produced. He also composed three songs...

31. Rinus Gerritsen (1946)

Dutch Musician

Marinus Rinus Gerritsen is a Dutch bassist. Best known for being founding member of Dutch group Golden Earring he is also a producer of artists like Herman Brood. Steve Harris...

32. Cesar Zuiderwijk (1948)

Dutch Musician

Cornelis Johannes Cesar Zuiderwijk is a Dutch drummer. He is best known as the drummer of the Dutch rock band Golden Earring a position he has held since 1970.

33. Ernst Reijseger (1954)

Dutch Musician

Ernst Reijseger is a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in jazz improvised music and contemporary classical music and often gives solo concerts.

34. Ronald Brautigam (1954)

Dutch Musician

Ronald Brautigam is a Dutch concert pianist best known for his performances of Beethoven's piano works on the fortepiano. Born in Amsterdam Brautigam studied with Jan Wijn and left to...

35. Jan van den Dobbelsteen (1954)

Dutch Musician

Jan van den Dobbelsteen is an interdisciplinary Dutch artist who teaches at Academy St. Joost in Breda and lives and works in Eindhoven. Biography: He has been working with sound...

36. Saskia Laroo (1959)

Dutch Musician

Saskia Laroo is a Dutch jazz musician who has been dubbed Lady Miles Davis. Laroo was born in the Jordaan to Amsterdam as the eldest of four daughters. When she...

37. Robert Jan Stips (1950)

Dutch Musician

Robert Jan Stips is a Dutch musician born in The Hague 4 February 1950. He initially found fame as a keyboard player arranger and producer with the group Supersister. This...

38. Mohamed El-Fers (Unknow)

Dutch Musician

Mohamed el-Fers is a Dutch writer musician and filmmaker.

39. Harry Sacksioni (1950)

Dutch Musician

Harry Sacksioni is a composer and guitar virtuoso of Dutch origin. The peak of his fame was during the 1970s to 1990s. Famous works of this period include Meta Sequoia...

40. Rudolf Koelman (Unknow)

Dutch Musician

Rudolf Koelman is a Dutch violinist born in Amsterdam in 1959 and is a professor at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland.

41. Piter Wilkens (1959)

Dutch Musician

Piter Wilkens is a singer guitarist composer lyricist and producer who performs mainly in his native West Frisian language. His performances are often solo but he also performs with a...

42. Henkjan Honing (Unknow)

Dutch Musician

Henkjan Honing is a Dutch researcher and musician. He is KNAW-Muller professor in music cognition and heads the Music Cognition Group part of the Department of Musicology the Institute for...

43. Bart van Oort (Unknow)

Dutch Musician

Bart van Oort is a Dutch classical pianist.

44. Kathinka Pasveer (1959)

Dutch Musician

Kathinka Pasveer is a Dutch flautist.

45. Jozef van Wissem (1962)

Dutch Musician

Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn. In 2013 van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award for the score of Only Lovers Left...

46. Mark Ritsema (1962)

Dutch Musician

Mark Ritsema is a singer guitarist songwriter journalist and writer from the Netherlands. During the eighties and nineties he fronted cult bands Spasmodique and Cobraz and currently he plays with...

47. DJ DNA (1962)

Dutch Musician

Arjen de Vreede known by his stage name DJ DNA is a Dutch DJ and producer. At age seventeen he started as a DJ and became a pioneer in the...

48. Ton Scherpenzeel (1952)

Dutch Musician

Ton Scherpenzeel is a keyboardist and a founding member of the Dutch rock band Kayak together with Pim Koopman and Max Werner whom he met whilst at the Hilversum Muziek...

49. Henny Thijssen (1952)

Dutch Musician

Henny Thijssen is a Dutch singer text-writer and composer. He is the older brother of singers Wilma Landkroon and Reiny Landkroon. In 1988 Henny Thijssen received 1st place public jury...

50. Cor Fuhler (1964)

Dutch Musician

Cor Fuhler is an Amsterdam-based musician who plays in the style of electroacoustic improvisation. His primary instrument is the piano. He explores the possibilities of the piano manipulating it’s sound...