Is the name pronounced BAH-dings or BAY-dings?
What an amazing composer!
How and why have the Dutch hidden away H. Andriessen and Badings?? World-class, first rate artists both!
I have always pronounced it as "BAH-dings" but I may not be correct.
The unfortunate truth of the matter with Badings is that, within the Netherlands, his reputation was very badly (perhaps fatally ???) damaged because of his alleged collaboration with the Germans during their occupation of the country between 1940 and 1945. This resulted in effectively an almost complete boycotting of his music after the war. Although there have been some signs of a revival of interest in recent years I doubt whether he will ever be well-known to the Dutch concert-going public.