Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (4 August 1892 – 8 October 1971) was a Dutch composer. She was born in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, and began composing in 1917 without instruction. In 1937 she studied orchestration with Eduard Flipse

Eduard Flipse

Eduard Flipse was a Dutch conductor and composer, the son of Cornelis Flipse and Geertje Kruis. He was noted as a champion of the music of Dutch composers, such as Léon Orthel. He prepared the chorus for one of the earliest Dutch performances of William Walton's oratorio Belshazzar's Feast...

 and became successful as a composer in the 1940s and 1950s.

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

The Hague

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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 Adophe Rette, for soprano solo, female choir and orchestra (1939)
• Piano Concerto in Major Axis (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