Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman Explained

Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (4 August 1892 – 8 October 1971) was a Dutch composer. She was born in Rotterdam, and began composing in 1917 without instruction.^[1] In 1937 she studied orchestration with Eduard Flipse and became successful as a composer in the 1940s and 1950s.^[2]

In August 1914 she married writer Ferdinand Bordewijk, who contributed lyrics to some of her works, and had a son Robert and daughter Nina. She received an award in 1943 for her Piano Sonata and died in The Hague.^[3]

Works

Selected works include:

• Variations II, op. 6 for piano (1919)
• The Garden of Allah for orchestra, after novel by Robert Smythe Hitchens (1936)
• Polish Suite for orchestra (1937)
• Sextet in C major for wind instruments (1938)
• Elog du Vent, text Adolphe Retté, for soprano solo, female choir and orchestra (1939)
• Piano Concerto in A-flat major (1940)
• Les Illuminations, text Arthur Rimbaud, for voice and orchestra (1940)
• Roundabout, opera/operetta in a company, libretto F. Bordewijk (1941)
• Symphony (1942)
• Sonata in E major for piano (1943)
• Epilogue for orchestra (1943)
• Mother of the Fatherland, for the 50-year jubilee of Queen Wilhelmina (1948)
• Plato's death, words F. Bordewijk, symphonic poem for narrator, solo voice, chorus and symphony orchestra (1949)
• Praeludium and Fugue for carillon (1950)
• The sacred circle for four-voice choir (1950)
• Triptych for carillon (1951)
• Roepman, for voice unaccompanied (1953)
• Reconstruction for four- male chorus a cappella (1954)
• The moon, text Emily Dickinson, for chorus a cappella (1961)

External links

• Catalog of works
• Donemus composer page

Notes and References

1. Book: The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 3. Stanley. Sadie. John. Tyrrell. 2001.
2. Book: The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. Julie Anne. Sadie. Rhian. Samuel. 1994. W. W. Norton & Company . 9780393034875. 30 January 2011.
3. Web site: Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892-1971). 30 January 2011.