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Le label Future Classics (Pays-Bas) nous propose un double CD de la compositrice Rosy Wertheim.
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Claude Torres
Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949). Wertheim is one of the first female Dutch
composrs to have gained international renown. Born into a well-to-do
Amsterdam Jewish family, she studied piano and composition with Bernard
Zweers and Sem Dresden. She moved to Paris in 1929, where she studied
composition and instrumentation with Louis Aubert and forged a strong
friendship with composer Elsa Barraine. Rosy's home in Paris became a
haven for Dutch artists and composers, and a veritable salon for leading
French composers including Milhaud, Honegger, Messiaen, Jolivet and
Ibert. Her works were frequently included on concert programs in Paris.
In 1935 she travelled to Vienna to study with Karl Weigl and a year
later she moved on to New York, where she was active in the Composers'
Forum Laboratory.
In 1937 she returned home to Amsterdam, where in May 1940, following the
invasion and occupation by the German army, her situation deteriorated
quickly. Rosy and her compositions were banned from stage, but she
continued organizing concerts at home, though conditions became
increasingly oppressive. Sometime after September 1942, Rosy went into
hiding. She survived the war, but contracted cancer soon after and was
unable to compose or teach. She died in 1949.
Her complete oeuvre counts about ninety works, most of them art songs
and chamber music, the greatest portion having been written in Paris.
But many of Rosy's compositions were never published. Despite a sizeable
oeuvre of high quality, Rosy Wertheim has been largely forgotten and
even now is not included in anthologies of twentieth-century Dutch
music.
Most of the works on this CD are first recordings. Rosy's music is of a
friendly, refined and accessible quality. She focused her talent for
harmony first on late Romanticism, but later explored octatonic scales
which were quite popular in the Netherlands in the twenties. Her stay in
France clearly resounds in her later works, influenced by French
Impressionism. The music is never simple or straightforward, containing
layering and depth often reminiscent of Brahms.
The cd can be ordered from: www.futureclassicsmusic.com
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