Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab was a Dutch composer.
Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She developed an interest in composing music after her children were grown and her husband had died, and studied with Ernest W. Mulder for composition and Henk Badings for melody. In the 1930s she wrote a number of songs with Dutch text, and after World War II she composed Monument in 1946 in honor of her son John who was murdered in Dachau. In the 1920s she translated the work of Martin Buber into Dutch. She died in Amsterdam.Works
Colaço Osorio-Swaab composed chamber works, songs, overture for orchestra, duets and declamatoria. Among theses:
- Aus den knospen quellen sachte
- Avond
- Das Roseninnere
- Dorpsdans
- En sourdine
- Fêtes galantes
- Heisst es viel dich bitten
- So ich traurig bin
- Worte trügen, worte fliehen
- Zij komt
- Suite for flute, violin and viola
- Trio No. 3 for 2 violins and viola
- Quartet No. 1 for flute, violin, viola and cello
- Sonata No.3 for viola and piano
- Tsaddiék, Intermezzo for viola and piano
