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

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. Her family moved to Berlin in 1900, where her first music teachers were her mother and Marie Tauszky. She later studied with Max Loewengaard and

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at the

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in Berlin, then with

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and Richard Roessler at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik (today the Berlin University of the Arts). Wijers married Jan Tideman on 31 March 1910 and they had three children, Elisabeth, Bruno and Johanna. Tideman was a government official in the

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in Indonesia, and they lived there until returning to the Netherlands in1929. Bruno unfortunately died while fighting in World War II. Wijers' ''Small Suite for Carillon'' won a Visser-Neerlandia prize in 1959. Her papers are archived at the

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. Her music was published by

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. Her compositions include:

Chamber

*''Adagio en Andante Cantabile in F and D Major'' (viola and piano) *''Andante Cantabile in A Major'' (viola and piano) *''Small Suite for Carillon'' *''Three Compositions for Carillon: Menuet, Interludium, Rondo''

Film Soundtracks

*''From the Realm of Crystals'' *''Jan Pieter and His Sister''

Orchestra

*Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.1 *Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.2 *Funeral March

Piano

*''Beo's Song'' *''Berceuse'' *''Eastern Impressions'' *''Karo-zang'' *''Pieces for Piano, opus 5'' *''Prelude and Fugue'' *''Seven Elegies'' *''Toba Fantasy'' *''Variation''s

Vocal

*"Child's Talk" (voice and piano) *''Four Dutch Songs'', opus 3 *''Three Songs on a South African text'' (soprano and piano; text by

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) *''Two cantatas'' *''Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns"'' (violin, cello and piano; text by

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)

References

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