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:
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