Emmy Heil Frensel-Wegener (b. 1901 d. 1973) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 violin

Violin

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ist, pianist

Pianist

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, poet

Poet

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 and composer

Composer

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, the daughter of composer Bertha Frensel Wegener

Bertha Frensel Wegener

Bertha Frensel Wegener-Kloopman was a Dutch composer and music educator.-Biography:Bertha Wegener was born in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. She studied composition and piano at the Conservatory in Amsterdam and continued studying with composer Bernard Zweers and vocal pedagogue Hugo Bellwidt in...

-Kloopman and Jolen Frensel-Wegener. Wegener studied music at the Conservatory in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 and later continued her studies with Sam Dresden.

Works

Wegener composed works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, paino and voice in a dissonant, neo-classical style. Selected works include:

• Twee Stuken voor Piano Solo (1948)
• Sextet (1927)
• Donumus (1949)