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Albertha Wilhelmina Tideman-Wijers[1] (8 January 1887 – 1 January 1976)[2] was a Dutch composer[3] who lived in Indonesia for almost two decades and incorporated Indonesian elements into her compositions.[4] She published her music under the name Bertha Tideman-Wijers.

Wijers was born in Almelo. Her family moved to Berlin in 1900, where her first music teachers were her mother and Marie Tauszky.[2] She later studied with Max Loewengaard and Wilhelm Klatte at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin,[5] then with Ernst von Dohnanyi and Richard Roessler at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik (today the Berlin University of the Arts).[1]

Wijers married Jan Tideman on 31 March 1910 and they had three children, Elisabeth,[6] 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.[2]

Wijers' Small Suite for Carillon won a Visser-Neerlandia prize in 1959.[2] Her papers are archived at the Netherlands Music Institute.[7] Her music was published by Broekmans & van Poppel.[2] Her compositions include:

Chamber

• Adagio en Andante Cantabile in F and D Major (viola and piano)[8]

• Andante Cantabile in A Major (viola and piano)[8]

• Small Suite for Carillon[9]

• Three Compositions for Carillon: Menuet, Interludium, Rondo[10]

Film Soundtracks

• From the Realm of Crystals[11]

• Jan Pieter and His Sister[11]

Orchestra

• Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.1[12]

• Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra No.2[12]

• Funeral March[5]

Piano

• Beo's Song[2]
• Berceuse[1]

• Eastern Impressions[13]

• Karo-zang[2]

• Pieces for Piano, opus 5[14]

• Prelude and Fugue[5]
• Seven Elegies[1]

• Toba Fantasy[15]

• Variations[5]

Vocal

• "Child's Talk" (voice and piano)[13]

• Four Dutch Songs, opus 3[16]

• Three Songs on a South African text (soprano and piano; text by Elisabeth Eybers)[2]
• Two cantatas[1]

• Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns" (violin, cello and piano; text by Catullus)[2]

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