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Location: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Gudi
September 15, 2025
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Fons was born in Maastricht in 1865 to a German father and a mother from Zeeland, both Protestants. He learned his trade on the streets of Maastricht. His birthplace is on Boschstraat. After elementary school, Fons worked as a decorative painter at De Sphinx. At the instigation of the painter Henri Govaerts, he attended art school in Amsterdam. He returned in 1888.
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•Gudi
September 15, 2025
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Fons was at the cradle of today's VVV, was the initiator of the first carnival parade, and wrote several highly successful Kemikke operas (including Kapitein van de Köpenick), which are still performed today. His brother Guus, a musician, composed the music based on well-known arias and children's songs. The melody of the first movement of the Maastricht national anthem sounds suspiciously like the first movement of the Albanian national anthem, but that would be a coincidence.
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•PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")
May 16, 2018
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Alphonse (Alfons) Olterdissen (Maastricht, December 12, 1865 - Maastricht, February 24, 1923) was a Dutch writer, poet and composer who wrote extensively in the Maastrichtian dialect. The final stanza of his opera Trijn de Begijn eventually became the local anthem of Maastricht loosely copy of the Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu's (1853-1883) "Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire”.
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Location: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands