Margriet Ehlen
Encyclopedia
Margriet Ehlen is a Dutch
poet
and a composer
, conductor and educator of classical music
.
, Anna Bijns
, Emily Dickinson
, Wiel Kusters and Elly de Waard. She is also an accomplished and decorated poet herself.
Ehlen studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans
, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman
and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema. She graduated with a degree in music education
from the Maastricht Academy of Music, and taught at teacher colleges in Rotterdam
, Maastricht
and Sittard
.
She has collected and analyzed the works of her former teacher, the Dutch composer Gerard Kockelmans
, and written about the composer Jean Lambrechts.
Many of her works were published by Donemus
, a not-for-profit Dutch publishing house that promotes contemporary classical composers. Some others were published by the Rieks Sodenkamp publishing house in Maastricht
.
Margriet Ehlen at the Society of Limburg's Composers Margriet Ehlen at Rhegie
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and a composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, conductor and educator of classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
.
Life and career
She has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for voice set poetry to music. To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit AchterbergGerrit Achterberg
Gerrit Achterberg was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death.Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of nine children. He was raised as a Protestant within the Calvinist tradition. His father was a coach...
, Anna Bijns
Anna Bijns
Anna Bijns was a writer, schoolteacher and nun who taught until she was 80 years old.-Biography:The elder daughter of a tailor and rederijker, she opened a school in Antwerp with her brother Martin, following the death of her father and marriage of her sister. Anna Bijns was one of the rare women...
, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
, Wiel Kusters and Elly de Waard. She is also an accomplished and decorated poet herself.
Ehlen studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans
Gerard Kockelmans
Gerard Kockelmans was a Dutch composer, conductor and music teacher.He studied at the conservatoires of Maastricht, The Hague and Utrecht, where Kees van Baaren, Sem Dresden and Henri Geraedts were among his teachers.As a composer he mainly wrote choral music. Other works comprise masses, motets,...
, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman
Bart Berman
Bart Berman is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music....
and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema. She graduated with a degree in music education
Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
from the Maastricht Academy of Music, and taught at teacher colleges 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...
, Maastricht
Maastricht
Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...
and Sittard
Sittard
Sittard is a city in the Dutch province of Limburg, which is the southernmost province of the Netherlands.On the east Sittard borders on Germany . It has some 48,400 inhabitants . Sittard is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen...
.
She has collected and analyzed the works of her former teacher, the Dutch composer Gerard Kockelmans
Gerard Kockelmans
Gerard Kockelmans was a Dutch composer, conductor and music teacher.He studied at the conservatoires of Maastricht, The Hague and Utrecht, where Kees van Baaren, Sem Dresden and Henri Geraedts were among his teachers.As a composer he mainly wrote choral music. Other works comprise masses, motets,...
, and written about the composer Jean Lambrechts.
Many of her works were published by Donemus
Donemus
Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....
, a not-for-profit Dutch publishing house that promotes contemporary classical composers. Some others were published by the Rieks Sodenkamp publishing house in Maastricht
Maastricht
Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...
.
Selected works
- 1979 Cyclus I, five songs for voice and piano on poems Martin Boot
- 1980 Three songs for voice and piano on texts by Martin Boot
- 1984 Palimpseste, for songs on poems by Wiel Kusters for mezzo-soprano and piano
- 1988 And send the Rose to you, ten songs for choir on texts by Emily DickinsonEmily DickinsonEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...
and Elly de Waard - 1988 Wijfken, staat oppe for soprano and flute/alt-flute on a text by Anna Bijnstriptiek
- 1990 Euridyce, a cycle of seven songs for mezzo-sopranoMezzo-sopranoA mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
and fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
quartet on texts by Gerrit AchterbergGerrit AchterbergGerrit Achterberg was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death.Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of nine children. He was raised as a Protestant within the Calvinist tradition. His father was a coach... - 1990 Three small songs for flute and medium voice on poems by Hadewych Laugs
- 1994 Dröm for soprano and flute on a text by Birgitta Buch
- 1995 Prèsque Berceuse for soprano, flute and harpsichord or piano on a text by H. Leopold
- 1995 Too few the mornings be, for soprano, saxophone, horn and piano
- 2003 For the Distant, mini opera for soprano, 2 percussion orchestras, 2 dancers, video, and 2 choirs
- 2006 Ignis Caritas for carillon on a text by Margriet Ehlen
External links
Margriet Ehlen at DonemusDonemus
Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....
Margriet Ehlen at the Society of Limburg's Composers Margriet Ehlen at Rhegie