Biography

Henk Badings was born on January 17, 1907 in Bandoeng, Java. He was a composer, known for Freud (1962), De vliegende Hollander (1957) and Les Achalunés (1959). He was married to Olly Folge Fonden. He died on June 26, 1987 in Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

Dutch composer, professor at the Rotterdam Conservatory; director of the Music Lyceum at The Hague; and director of the government Conservatory at The Hague. Originally a mining engineer, in 1935 he abandoned science for music. From 1956 he composed electronic music.

In 1946, Badings was brought up on charges of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. He was found guilty, and for two years barred from all professional activities. These charges were later reexamined, and Badings was completely exonerated.