- Born
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- Werner Herbers was born on August 11, 1940 in Bilthoven, Netherlands. He is known for Life Is Wonderful (2018), Podium Witteman (2015) and Buitenhof (1995). He was married to Vera Beths and Leonie Polak. He died on June 5, 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- SpousesLeonie Polak(? - June 5, 2023) (his death)
- Herbers has conducted various symphony orchestras, including the Metropole Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, the Brabant Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and a Stan Kenton Alumni Band in Los Angeles.
- Herbers studied oboe, piano and conducting at the Muzieklyceum Amsterdam.
- In 1990, jazz fanatic Herbers founded the Ebony Band to give composers from the 1920s and 1930s - denounced by the Nazis and forgotten after the war - their deserved place in music history. And in that too he found many wonderful things. He built up an archive with more than six hundred pieces by about one hundred and fifty composers, a treasure that is now cherished by the National Music Institute in The Hague.
- He has been principal oboist with the Dutch Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and, from 1970, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.
- His latest recording titled Achtung, Aufnahme! , is devoted to little-known works from the 1930s and including first world recordings.
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