Rudi Martinus van Dijk

Rudi Martinus van Dijk (27 March 1932 – 29 November 2003) was a Dutch and Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal music. The voice of a highly original creator is heard in every Van Dijk music, regardless of his stylistic trends it favours. Béla Bartók noted that sources are less important in framing a composer's achievement than how he uses them. What makes Van Dijk's orchestral music at once beguiling and immediately recognisable as a personal expression is discernable on the smaller sound-scale of his chamber compositions.