Sim Gokkes
Born: 21st March 1897, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: 5th February 1943, Auschwitz concentration camp
Nationality: Dutch
Simon (Sim) Gokkes was a Dutch-Jewish composer.
As a child, Gokkes took his first singing lessons with Ben Geysel, an opera singer who ran the Rembrandt Theatre of Amsterdam. Gokkes was also a pupil of Victor Schlesinger, cantor of the Rapenburg Synagogue in Amsterdam. In 1912, Gokkes wrote his first compositions, "Ngolinu Leshabiag" and "Yigdal". He studied composition with Sem Dresden and also piano and flute at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, finishing in 1919.
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