Wieland Kuijken was born in Dilbeek near Brussels in 1938. When he was 14 the family moved to artistically active Bruges. A year later he left school and began his musical studies: cello and piano. He completed his studies at the Brussels Conservatoire, when he took his performers examination in 1962. In parallel with his Conservatoire studies he interested himself more and more with earlier music and its instruments. At the age of 18 he began to teach himself the viola da gamba.

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