Dutch Institute in St. Petersburg organizes on March 4 an evening dedicated to the role of women in the arts.

The history of Dutch musical culture unfortunately remains little known, although the classical tradition of the Netherlands encompasses far more than the legacy of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) and Louis Andriessen (1939–2021).

The first half of the twentieth century – and especially the period between the two World Wars, the Interbellum – marked a time of remarkable musical and artistic flourishing in the Netherlands. This cultural rise was abruptly interrupted by the Second World War and the occupation. Many of the stars of interwar Amsterdam and The Hague perished and/or were consigned to oblivion.

Julia Broido and Valeria Gorokhovskaya will present a project dedicated to researching and reintroducing to the public the unjustly forgotten composers and artists of the Dutch Interbellum, as a part of Forbidden Music Regained project. A striking feature of this period in the Netherlands is that a substantial proportion of its representatives were women. At the Dutch Institute, you will discover the lives and works of two remarkable stars of the Dutch Interbellum: Rosy Wertheim (1888–1949) and Sedje Hémon (1923–2011).

Programme of the evening:

•Screening of documentary films about the composer Rosy Wertheim and the visual artist Sedje Hémon by Dutch musicologist and videographer Patricia Werner Leanse.

•An online conversation with the Dutch composer Marion von Tilzer – a graduate of the Amsterdam Conservatory (piano), composer, and artistic director of the international project Meetings with Remarkable Women – music inspired by women’s lives.

Moderators of the meeting:

•Julia Broido – musicologist, critic, author and curator of numerous international music initiatives.

•Valeria Gorokhovskaya – music expert, promoter composers of the Dutch publishing house Donemus.

Language of the meeting: English, Russian. The films will be presented in Dutch with English subtitles.

The Dutch Institute in St Petersburg is a representative office of the University of Amsterdam and a partner of the universities of Groningen, Leiden, Utrecht, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Radboud University.
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