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)