Rick van der Linden (5 August 1946, Badhoevedorp, North Holland - 22 January 2006, Groningen) was a Dutch composer and keyboardist. Van der Linden first gained fame as a member of Ekseption, but played in several other bands including most notably Trace, as well as solo. Like his contemporary Keith Emerson, van der Linden was best known for his popular reworkings of classical music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and other composers.
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