Bernard Huijbers

HUIJBERS, Bernard . b. Rotterdam, 24 July 1922; d. Espeilhac, France, 15 April 2003. Huijbers studied under Ernest Mulder during his Jesuit course of training, graduating as a schoolmaster in 1960 and serving (in the tradition of many continental liturgical musicians) as school master and master of music at the St Ignatius College, Amsterdam, until 1969. More importantly he became associated with the Dominicuskerk where he collaborated with the librettist Huub Oosterhuis*. He left the Jesuits in 1973, and subsequently married Annelou Koens. He moved to Espeilhac, France where he continued to write until his death. Huijbers regarded his choir at St Ignatius as a ‘workgroup for vernacular...