Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman



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. In 1937 she studied orchestration with Eduard Flipse 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.

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)