Autobiography
(curriculum vitae)

by Jos Kunst (ca. 1993)

Jos Kunst was very fond of the drawing (made by his younger son Jaap Kunst).
English translation by Jan Pieter Kunst.

Jos Kunst (1936-?) Studies:
1953: Romanic Literature
1961: Mathematical Logic
1963: Music
1990: History of Platonism in Antiquity

1967, 1969: Gaudeamus prizes
1972: [i.e. 1970. JPK] Prize for Composition
His works can be found at Donemus (Amsterdam), Peters (London) and the Institute for Sonology (The Hague).

1975: Stops composing: has lost all confidence in the existence of any culture-group that shows, if only to the slightest degree, some vitality and a committment to make the so called "new" classical music viable, and with which he could, if only from a distance, feel some form of association. Wants to keep involved with music however and chooses therefore the long detour of a scholarly, in this case musicological, existence.
1978: Dissertation: Making Sense in Music (Ghent, Communication & Cognition)
1982: Poems: Niemand blijft ooit zichzelf [Nobody ever remains his/her true self] (Amsterdam, Meulenhoff)
1988: After thirteen years he decides to end the long journey. Farewell book: Filosofie van de Muziekwetenschap [Philosophy of Musicology] (Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff)

1989: Composes again, but directs his musical activity only at his own goals. Thus, he withdraws from most social rituals that, er, "liven up" musical life.