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Ernest Wiehe (2 June 1944 – 3 June 2010) was a musician, architect, and painter from Mauritius who played a leading role in developing jazz in Mauritius.

Life and education
Ernest Wiehe was born in Mauritius in 1944. He studied architecture at the University of Cape Town, from 1965 to 1969. After winning a full scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston, he studied composition and arrangement, graduating in 1969. He on to the becoming a professor at [Berklee College of Music]], teaching composition and arrangement until 1978. Dedicated to contributing to the musical textures of his native island, he returned to Mauritius in 1978 and lived, played, and taught music there until his death, in 2010.

He passed away in Mauritius on 3 June 2010 aged 66.