Concertgebouw mourns principal oboe, 82
RIPThe Dutch oboist and activist Werner Herbers has died after a lengthy illness.
He was principal oboe from 1970 of the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic and, from 1970, of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.
In 1990 he founded the Ebony Band to revive music by composers banned under the Nazis and forgotten ever since. They made 20 recordings and Herbers amassed an archive of 600 pieces by 150 composers, which he donated to the National Music Institute in The Hague.
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