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Bertha Tideman-Wijers

Bertha Tideman-Wijers

Dutch composer

Albertha Wilhelmina Tideman-Wijers[1] (8 January 1887 – 1 January 1976)[2] was a Dutch composer[3] who lived in Indonesia for almost two decades and incorporated Indonesian elements into her compositions.[4] She published her music under the name Bertha Tideman-Wijers.

Wijers was born in Almelo. Her family moved to Berlin in 1900, where her first music teachers were her mother and Marie Tauszky.[2] She later studied with Max Loewengaard and Wilhelm Klatte at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin,[5] then with Ernst von Dohnanyi and Richard Roessler at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik (today the Berlin University of the Arts).[1]

Wijers married Jan Tideman on 31 March 1910 and they had three children, Elisabeth,[6] Bruno and Johanna. Tideman was a government official in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, and they lived there until returning to the Netherlands in1929. Bruno unfortunately died while fighting in World War II.[2]

Wijers' Small Suite for Carillon won a Visser-Neerlandia prize in 1959.[2] Her papers are archived at the Netherlands Music Institute.[7] Her music was published by Broekmans & van Poppel.[2] Her compositions include:

Chamber

  • Adagio en Andante Cantabile in F and D Major (viola and piano)[8]
  • Andante Cantabile in A Major (viola and piano)[8]
  • Small Suite for Carillon[9]
  • Three Compositions for Carillon: Menuet, Interludium, Rondo[10]

Film Soundtracks

  • From the Realm of Crystals[11]
  • Jan Pieter and His Sister[11]

Orchestra

  • Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.1[12]
  • Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.2[12]
  • Funeral March[5]

Piano

  • Eastern Impressions[13]
  • Pieces for Piano, opus 5[14]
  • Prelude and Fugue[5]
  • Seven Elegies[1]

Vocal

  • "Child's Talk" (voice and piano)[13]
  • Four Dutch Songs, opus 3[16]
  • Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns" (violin, cello and piano; text by Catullus)[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. [2]
    "ccm :: Tideman Wijers, Bertha Tideman Wijers". composers-classical-music.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  3. [3]
    Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  4. [4]
    van Dijk, Henk Mak; Tigges, Wim (2014), Barendregt, Bart; Bogaerts, Els (eds.), "CONSTANT VAN DE WALL, A EUROPEAN–JAVANESE COMPOSER", Recollecting Resonances, Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters, Brill, pp. 151–178, JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w76trp.10, retrieved 2021-07-12
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    Mescht, Van der; Hermann, Heinrich (Jun 2008). "Some South African connections among students at the Stern'sches Conservatorium der Musik in Berlin, 1850-1914". South African Journal of Cultural History = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis. hdl:2263/8882. ISSN 1018-0745.
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    "Familie 94". www.indeks.pt. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
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    "Aanwinsten Archieven | Nederlands Muziek Instituut". www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  8. [8]
    "List of compositions for viola: T to Z", Wikipedia, 2021-06-10, retrieved 2021-07-12
  9. [9]
    Sonorum Speculum. Donemus Foundation. 1962.
  10. [10]
    Tiffany Ng, Emmet Lewis. Bibliography of Carillon Music by Women, Transgender, and Nonbinary Composers (PDF). University of Michigan.
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    Loon, P.J.J.M. van (2018). De eerste Nederlandse geluidsfilmcomponisten, 1929 - 1934. Netherlands: Universiteit Utrecht. hdl:1874/368517.
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    Bröker, Tobias (2016). The 20th century violin concertante : a repertoire catalogue of the compositions for violin concertante written between 1894 and 2006 (3rd ed.). Stuttgart. ISBN 9783000500015. OCLC 1039098041.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. [13]
    "Donemus Webshop — Tideman-Wijers, Bertha". webshop.donemus.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  14. [14]
    "Stukken voor piano, op.5, nr.1-2 - Muziekweb". www.muziekweb.nl. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  15. [15]
    Laskai, Anna (2018). Erno Dohnanyi's Library and Music Collection (PDF). Budapest: Institute for Musicology Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  16. [16]
    "Berta (Albertina Wilhelmina) Tideman-Wijers (1887 - 1976) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
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