Bertha Tideman-Wijers

Albertha Wilhelmina Tideman-Wijers[1] (8 January 1887 – 1 January 1976)[2] was a Dutch composer[3] who lived in Indonesia for almost two decades and incorporated Indonesian elements into her compositions.[4] She published her music under the name Bertha Tideman-Wijers.

Wijers was born in Almelo. Her family moved to Berlin in 1900, where her first music teachers were her mother and Marie Tauszky.[2] She later studied with Max Loewengaard and Wilhelm Klatte at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin,[5] then with Ernst von Dohnanyi and Richard Roessler at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik (today the Berlin University of the Arts).[1]

Wijers married Jan Tideman on 31 March 1910 and they had three children, Elisabeth,[6] Bruno and Johanna. Tideman was a government official in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, and they lived there until returning to the Netherlands in1929. Bruno unfortunately died while fighting in World War II.[2]

Wijers' Small Suite for Carillon won a Visser-Neerlandia prize in 1959.[2] Her papers are archived at the Netherlands Music Institute.[7] Her music was published by Broekmans & van Poppel.[2] Her compositions include:

Chamber

• Adagio en Andante Cantabile in F and D Major (viola and piano)[8]
• Andante Cantabile in A Major (viola and piano)[8]
• Small Suite for Carillon[9]
• Three Compositions for Carillon: Menuet, Interludium, Rondo[10]

Film Soundtracks

• From the Realm of Crystals[11]
• Jan Pieter and His Sister[11]

Orchestra

• Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.1[12]
• Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.2[12]
• Funeral March[5]

Piano

• Beo's Song[2]
• Berceuse[1]
• Eastern Impressions[13]
• Karo-zang[2]
• Pieces for Piano, opus 5[14]
• Prelude and Fugue[5]
• Seven Elegies[1]
• Toba Fantasy[15]
• Variations[5]

Vocal

• "Child's Talk" (voice and piano)[13]
• Four Dutch Songs, opus 3[16]
• Three Songs on a South African text (soprano and piano; text by Elisabeth Eybers)[2]
• Two cantatas[1]
• Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns" (violin, cello and piano; text by Catullus)[2]

References

1. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
2. "ccm :: Tideman Wijers, Bertha Tideman Wijers". composers-classical-music.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
3. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
4. van Dijk, Henk Mak; Tigges, Wim (2014), Barendregt, Bart; Bogaerts, Els (eds.), "CONSTANT VAN DE WALL, A EUROPEAN–JAVANESE COMPOSER", Recollecting Resonances, Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters, Brill, pp. 151–178, JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w76trp.10, retrieved 2021-07-12
5. Mescht, Van der; Hermann, Heinrich (Jun 2008). "Some South African connections among students at the Stern'sches Conservatorium der Musik in Berlin, 1850-1914". South African Journal of Cultural History = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis. hdl:2263/8882. ISSN 1018-0745.
6. "Familie 94". www.indeks.pt. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
7. "Aanwinsten Archieven | Nederlands Muziek Instituut". www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
8. "List of compositions for viola: T to Z", Wikipedia, 2021-06-10, retrieved 2021-07-12
9. Sonorum Speculum. Donemus Foundation. 1962.
10. Tiffany Ng, Emmet Lewis. Bibliography of Carillon Music by Women, Transgender, and Nonbinary Composers (PDF). University of Michigan.
11. Loon, P.J.J.M. van (2018). De eerste Nederlandse geluidsfilmcomponisten, 1929 - 1934. Netherlands: Universiteit Utrecht. hdl:1874/368517.
12. Bröker, Tobias (2016). The 20th century violin concertante : a repertoire catalogue of the compositions for violin concertante written between 1894 and 2006 (3rd ed.). Stuttgart. ISBN 9783000500015. OCLC 1039098041.
13. "Donemus Webshop — Tideman-Wijers, Bertha". webshop.donemus.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
14. "Stukken voor piano, op.5, nr.1-2 - Muziekweb". www.muziekweb.nl. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
15. Laskai, Anna (2018). Erno Dohnanyi's Library and Music Collection (PDF). Budapest: Institute for Musicology Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
16. "Berta (Albertina Wilhelmina) Tideman-Wijers (1887 - 1976) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2021-07-12.