Gerardus Hubertus Galenus von Brucken Fock was a nineteenthcentury classical Dutch pianist who gave up his career as a performer to compose and paint.
Gerard von Brucken Fock was born as Gerardus Hubertus Galenus Fock in the Ter Hooge castle, Koudekerke, in the outskirts of Middelburg where he spent the summers of his early childhood. His father was Henri Dignes von Brucken Fock and his mother Johanna Caland. He had three brothers, one of them being Abraham Emilius von Brucken Fock, a soldier who later acquired fame as a composer as well. Less than four years later his father changed his name to von Brucken Fock. He grew up in the province of Zeeland as the child of a wealthy family, and although he never had to work he did attend his secondary school in Middelburg. In 1877 he attempted to join the Royal Military Academy in Breda, but gradually changed his mind.
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