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Henriette Bosmans: Belsazer

Sunday, 26 February 2023   |   24:00 - 14:00

Henriette Bosmans: Belsazer

  • Composer(s) Henriette Bosmans
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    Belsazer

  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Frauenorchesterprojekt, Merlind Pohl (Alto), Mary Ellen Kitchens (Music director)

Date

Feb 26 2023
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Time

12:00 - 14:00

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Location

Berlin, Astrid-Lindgren-Bühne, Germany
Landesmusikakademie Berlin, Germany

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Henriëtte Bosmans is considered one of the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century. As a pianist and composer, she was affiliated with various chamber music ensembles in Amsterdam, with among others the violinists Louis Zimmerman and Francis Koene and the cellist Marix Loevensohn. World War II puts her career on hold. Henriëtte Bosmans refuses to become a member of the Nazi’s Chamber of Culture and can perform only secretly. During the war, she develops a friendship with the reciter Charlotte Köhler. After a lengthy period in which Bosmans regularly performs but does not compose, because of the premature death of Francis Koene in 1935 and the war, she writes the 'Doodenmarsch' [Death March, 1945], on text by Clara Eggink.
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‘Forbidden Music Regained’, one of the programs of the Prisma Festival (Canada), will give stage to the chamber works by Dutch composers Lex van Delden, Leo Smit, Henriette Bosmans and Jan van Gilse.
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In April 2018, the Concertgebouw Orchestra played Doodenmarsch, a short but powerful work that the prominent Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952) completed after the Second World War. Although former artistic director Marius Flothuis labelled this work as probably her best composition, it had never been on the music stands before.
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