In 1938, Van Wyk began studies aimed at a BA-degree at the University of Stellenbosch.
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Through this BBC appointment he met British composer and musicologist Howard Ferguson, who was "immensely impressed by the beauty and originality" of his works.
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His mother, Helena van Dyk, came from a wealthy family seemingly descended from the seventeenth century court painter Anthony van Dyck.
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