Emmy Wegener
Emmy Heil Frensel-Wegener (14 June 1901 in Amsterdam – 11 January 1973 in Laren (North Holland) was a Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer.
Life and career[]
Wegener was the daughter of composer Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman and American insurance agent John Frensel-Wegener. She studied at the music school in Bussum and then in England,[1] then continued her studies at the Conservatory in Amsterdam where she received a degree in violin with . She also studied composition with Sem Dresden,[2][3] clarinet with and Gregorian chant.
In 1926 Wegener married Jan Heil, but the couple divorced in 1932. In 1934 she served on the jury for the evaluation of vocal quartet a cappella compositions for the Dutch Association for Contemporary Music, along with Hendrik Andriessen, Henk Badings, and , but the jury awarded no first prize, finding no "composition of exemplary meaning" among the 47 submissions.[4]
In 1935 Wegener experienced a serious illness that progressed to paralysis by 1950.[5] She wrote at least one poem which appeared in De Nieuwe Gids. The city of Gorinchem named a street after her.
Works[]
Wegener composed works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano and voice in a dissonant, neo-classical style. Her works date mainly from 1925 to 1935, when illness reduced her output. Selected works include:
- 1925: Sonate
- 1925: Suite voor twee violen
- 1926: Hobosuite (ooit uitgevoerd door Jaap Stotijn en )
- 1927: Sonate in een deel voor cello en piano
- 1927: Sextet (fluit, hobo, klarinet, fagot, hoorn en piano)
- 1928: Ik zag Cecilia voor zangstem en begeleiding
- 1928: Gekwetst ben ik voor drie sopranen, twee alten, twee tenoren en twee bassen
- 1929: Suite voor orkest
- 1929: Drie stukken voor viool en piano
- 1929: Strijkkwartet
- 1929: Menuetto voor hobo en piano
- 1930: Rapsodie voor piano en orkest
- 1930: Twee stukken voor piano solo
- Suite voor klarinet en piano, dat tot in Boedapest te horen is geweest
- Toccata voor piano solo
- 1929: Dans voor klarinet en orkest, uitgevoerd in Geneve onder leiding van Ernest Ansermet tijdens het ISCM
- 1932: Shakespeare-suite, op 7 februari 1932 uitgevoerd door het Concertgebouworkest onder leiding van Pierre Monteux.
- 1949: Donumus
References[]
- ^ "Biografie Emmy Frensel Wegener". Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. p. 256. ISBN 9780313319907. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (2001). The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 9. Grove. ISBN 9781561592395. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ De Tijd, 8 juni 1934, Vocaal gemengd kwartet
- ^ Algemeen Handelsblad, 4 november 1950, Wie helpt?
- Emmy Frensel Wegener at nl.muziekencyclopedie.nl
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