# Emmy Wegener

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**Emmy Heil Frensel-Wegener** (14 June 1901 in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam) – 11 January 1973 in Laren (North Holland) was a Dutch [violinist](/source/Violin), [pianist](/source/Pianist), [poet](/source/Poet) and [composer](/source/Composer).

## Life and career

Wegener was the daughter of composer [Bertha Frensel Wegener](/source/Bertha_Frensel_Wegener)-Koopman and American insurance agent John Frensel-Wegener. She studied at the music school in [Bussum](/source/Bussum) and then in England,[1] then continued her studies at the [Conservatory in Amsterdam](/source/Conservatorium_van_Amsterdam) where she received a degree in violin with [Felice Togni](/source/Felice_Togni).[2] She also studied composition with [Sem Dresden](/source/Sem_Dresden),[3][4] clarinet with [Willem Brohm](/source/Willem_Brohm) and [Gregorian chant](/source/Gregorian_chant).

In 1926 Wegener married Jan Heil, but the couple divorced in 1932. In 1934 she served on the jury for the evaluation of vocal quartet a cappella compositions for the Dutch Association for Contemporary Music, along with [Hendrik Andriessen](/source/Hendrik_Andriessen), [Henk Badings](/source/Henk_Badings), [Anthon van der Horst](/source/Anthon_van_der_Horst) and [Daniel Ruyneman](/source/Daniel_Ruyneman), but the jury awarded no first prize, finding no "composition of exemplary meaning" among the 47 submissions.[5]

In 1935 Wegener experienced a serious illness that progressed to paralysis by 1950.[6] She wrote at least one poem which appeared in [De Nieuwe Gids](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Nieuwe_Gids_(Nederland)). The city of [Gorinchem](/source/Gorinchem) named a street after her.

## Works

Wegener composed works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano and voice, which *The New Grove* described as "in a dissonant, neo-classical style." Her works date mainly from 1925 to 1935, when illness reduced her output. Selected works include:

- 1925: Sonate
- 1925: Suite voor twee violen
- 1926: Hobosuite (ooit uitgevoerd door [Jaap Stotijn](/source/Jaap_Stotijn) en [Gerard Hengelveld](/source/Gerard_Hengelveld))
- 1927: Sonate in een deel voor cello en piano
- 1927: Sextet (fluit, hobo, klarinet, fagot, hoorn en piano)
- 1928: *Ik zag Cecilia* voor zangstem en begeleiding
- 1928: *Gekwetst* ben ik voor drie sopranen, twee alten, twee tenoren en twee bassen
- 1929: Suite voor orkest
- 1929: Drie stukken voor viool en piano
- 1929: Strijkkwartet
- 1929: Menuetto voor hobo en piano
- 1930: Rapsodie voor piano en orkest
- 1930: Twee stukken voor piano solo
- Suite voor klarinet en piano, dat tot in Boedapest te horen is geweest
- Toccata voor piano solo
- 1929: Dans voor klarinet en orkest, uitgevoerd in Geneve onder leiding van [Ernest Ansermet](/source/Ernest_Ansermet) tijdens het ISCM
- 1932: Shakespeare-suite, op 7 februari 1932 uitgevoerd door het [Concertgebouworkest](/source/Koninklijk_Concertgebouworkest) onder leiding van [Pierre Monteux](/source/Pierre_Monteux).
- 1949: Donumus

## References

1. ["Biografie Emmy Frensel Wegener"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171019162836/http://nl.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action/entry/Emmy+Frensel+Wegener). Archived from [the original](http://nl.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action/entry/Emmy+Frensel+Wegener) on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017.

1. ["Frensel Wegener, Emmy"](https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000049739). *Grove Music Online*. [doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.49739](https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.49739). Retrieved 2025-02-02. Frensel Wegener, Emmy: Dutch composer... studied the violin with Felice Togni at the Amsterdam Conservatory, graduating in 1925.

1. Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). [*A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900*](https://books.google.com/books?id=5TAVF1tSZtcC&q=Emmy+Wegener&pg=PA75). Greenwood Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-313-31990-7. Retrieved 11 November 2010.

1. Sadie, Stanley & Tyrrell, John (2001). [*The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 9*](https://books.google.com/books?id=uDEKAQAAMAAJ&q=Emmy+Wegener&pg=PA237). Grove. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5. Retrieved 11 November 2010.

1. ["Gevonden in Delpher – De Tijd : godsdienstig-staatkundig dagblad"](https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ddd:010535793:mpeg21:a0216). *De Tijd : Godsdienstig-Staatkundig Dagblad*. 8 June 1934.

1. ["Gevonden in Delpher – Algemeen Handelsblad"](https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=KBNRC01:000067818:mpeg21:a0099). *Algemeen Handelsblad*. 4 November 1950.

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