Bosmans, Henriëtte

2012/02/27

Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952), the Netherlands

A celebrated pianist of the 1920s (studied with her mother Sara Benedicts, the Dutch concert pianist). Wrote her Drie Klavierstukken as a teenager. After studying composition in the late 1920s, she wrote a series of works for piano and orchestra, flute and orchestra, and violin and orchestra. Later she composed a number of songs.