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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Guus Janssen
Person · male · Kingdom of the Netherlands · Heiloo · born 1951 · recording since 1991
Dutch composer (born 1951)
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Also known as 胡斯·楊森
Timeline
6 events▣ Album 3◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1✦ Award 1
1950s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Harpsichord
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2010s
Biography
English biography120 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1280180133
Biography
Guus Janssen (born 13 May 1951) is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist. A pianist and harpsichordist, he is also active as a jazz performer.
He studied piano and composition at the Sweelinck Academy of Music in Amsterdam with Ton de Leeuw and piano with Jaap Spaanderman. He also studied piano with Ton Hartsuiker. He has performed with John Zorn, George Lewis, Han Bennink (and Bennink's group Clusone Trio as a guest), Theo Loevendie, and Gidon Kremer. He teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
He won the Matthijs Vermeulen Award in 1984.
He composed two operas in collaboration with Friso Haverkamp and has released several CDs.
Festival performances
Open Music '92 (Открытая Музыка-92) in Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 4 | 17th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (3 release groups · 3 studio albums)
Albums · 3
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 47:03
1Preludium4:042Ostinato 14:313Vrij naar LT5:014PF6:305Cha Tsja6:286One Bar6:097Landschap met Bleekgezicht6:528Pogo 37:281992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 49:07
1Mikstuur4:502Ostinato I4:193Scheel6:334Ostinato II3:455Klankast7:386Hi-Hat4:557Koprol4:118Functional4:559Dik & Dun8:011995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 59:27
1Stomp3:312After LT4:513After AT5:504Marshcello6:315Hi Hat5:486Mikstuur6:307Lennie's Pennies8:148Taag6:269One Bar9:0010Tune for F2:46
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Guus Janssen head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 4 | 17th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | A. Roland Holst-Penning | won | |
| — | Matthijs Vermeulen Award | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guus_Janssen_%28Annamarie_Ursula%29_P1250997.JPGaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5ccaa417-f6e4-4cd2-91f5-a7db1f2c9e77discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5ccaa417-f6e4-4cd2-91f5-a7db1f2c9e77core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357400genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357400seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Janssenbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Janssen
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Annamarie Ursula · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q357400 · MusicBrainz: 5ccaa417-f6e4-4cd2-91f5-a7db1f2c9e77
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