Maastricht Academy of Music (BM in Music Education)
Occupation(s)
conductor and educator of classical music
Margriet Ehlen (born 28 September 1943) is a Dutch poet, composer, conductor and educator of classical music.
Life and career
Ehlen was born in Heerlen and has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice.[1] These works extend from solo vocalists[2] to choir music.[3] Many of her compositions for voice set poetry to music. To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit Achterberg, Anna Bijns, Emily Dickinson,[3] Wiel Kusters and Elly de Waard. She is also an accomplished and decorated poet herself.[4]
She has collected and analyzed the works of her former teacher, the Dutch composer Gerard Kockelmans,[5] and written about the composer Jean Lambrechts.[6]
Many of her works were published by Donemus, a not-for-profit Dutch publishing house that promotes contemporary classical composers. Some others were published by the Rieks Sodenkamp publishing house in Maastricht.
Selected works
1979 Cyclus I, five songs for voice and piano on poems Martin Boot
1980 Three songs for voice and piano on texts by Martin Boot
1984 Palimpseste, for songs on poems by Wiel Kusters for mezzo-soprano and piano
1988 And send the Rose to you, ten songs for choir on texts by Emily Dickinson and Elly de Waard[3]
1988 Wijfken, staat oppe for soprano and flute/alt-flute on a text by Anna Bijnstriptiek
^ abc"Muziek, goochelen en kunst in Dante". EdeStad.nl (in Dutch). Barneveld: Koninklijke BDU Uitgevers. 2009-11-22. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2010-01-22. In het kader van het kunstfestival 'Voorbij de laatste roos' over dichteres Emily Dickinson, komt het jeugdkoor van de Koorschool Midden-Gelderland onder leiding van Albert Wissink zes liederen zingen. Deze liederen zijn teksten van Emily Dickinson en gecomponeerd door de Belgische componiste Margriet Ehlen.
