Bertha Tideman-Wijers

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 Zutphen. Her family moved to Berlin in 1900, where her first music teachers were her mother and Marie Tauszky. then with Ernst von Dohnanyi and Richard Roessler at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik (today the Berlin University of the Arts). 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. Her music was published by Broekmans & van Poppel. Andante Cantabile in A Major (viola and piano) Three Compositions for Carillon: Menuet, Interludium, Rondo

Film Soundtracks From the Realm of Crystals Jan Pieter and His Sister Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.2 Karo-zang Prelude and Fugue Variations Three Songs on a South African text (soprano and piano; text by Elisabeth Eybers) Two cantatas Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns" (violin, cello and piano; text by Catullus)