Sneha Girap (Editor)

Henriëtte Bosmans

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Henriette Bosmans


Role
  
Composer

Henriette Bosmans nederlandsecomponisteszierikzeenetnlhomepagesh

Died
  
July 2, 1952, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Henri tte bosmans lead kindly light


Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans (6 December 1895 – 2 July 1952) was a Dutch composer.

Contents

Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Henri Bosmans, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the pianist Sara Benedicts, piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her father died when she was 6 months old. She studied piano with her mother and became a piano teacher herself at the age of 17. She became a celebrated pianist by the 1920s, performing throughout Europe with among others Monteux, Mengelberg and Ansermet. She gave 22 concertos with the Concertgebouw Orchestra alone between 1929 and 1949.

Henriëtte Bosmans wwwjoodsamsterdamnlwpcontentuploads201604h

Bosmans began her composition studies with Jan Willem Kersbergen and later with Cornelis Dopper (1921–22) and Willem Pijper (1927–30). She maintained a close friendship with Benjamin Britten. She died in her native city of Amsterdam and is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

Henriëtte Bosmans Henritte Bosmans Wikipedia

Bosmans had relationships with both men and women, with whom she often also collaborated musically. She was partnered from 1920-1927 to the Dutch cellist and composer Frieda Belinfante, who was a prominent lesbian and member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II, who in 1923 premiered Bosmans' Second Cello Concerto. She was later engaged, briefly, to the violonist Francis Koene, who died of a brain tumor in 1934, before they could be married. In the last years of her life Bosmans also appears to have been involved with the French singer Noemie Perugia, for whom she wrote a series of songs between the years 1949 and her death of stomach cancer in 1952.

Henriëtte Bosmans Henritte Bosmans Wikipedia

The Henriëtte Bosmans Prize, named after Bosmans, is an encouragement prize for young Dutch composers. The prize, consisting of €2500 (US$3500) and a performance, has been awarded since 1994 by the Society of Dutch Composers.

Henriëtte Bosmans Bosmans Henritte Hilda 18951952

Henri tte bosmans arietta


Henriëtte Bosmans The Ruth Posselt and Richard Burgin Family Archives

References

Henriëtte Bosmans Wikipedia


Similar Topics