Margriet Ehlen

Margriet Ehlen (born 28 September 1943) is a Dutch poet, composer, conductor and educator of classical music.

Life and career Ehlen was born in Heerlen and has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for voice set poetry to music. To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit Achterberg, Anna Bijns, Emily Dickinson,

She studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema. and written about the composer Jean Lambrechts.

Many of her works were published by Donemus, a not-for-profit Dutch publishing house that promotes contemporary classical composers. Some others were published by the Rieks Sodenkamp publishing house in Maastricht.

Selected works 1979 Cyclus I, five songs for voice and piano on poems Martin Boot 1980 Three songs for voice and piano on texts by Martin Boot 1984 Palimpseste, for songs on poems by Wiel Kusters for mezzo-soprano and piano 1988 And send the Rose to you, ten songs for choir on texts by Emily Dickinson and Elly de Waard 1995-1999 Veldeke awards (4 prizes)