Dutch Composers's video: Elisabeth Kuyper - Violin Concerto in B minor Op 10

Elisabeth Kuyper (1877-1953) Concert in b-klein : voor viool en orkest, Op. 10 (1908) 1. Allegro con fuoco - 00:00 2. Adagio con molto espressione - 12:45 3. Prestissimo - 20:36 Aleksandra Maslovaric, violin Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Conductor: Mikel Toms dedicated to Max Bruch Elisabeth Lamina Johanna Kuyper was a Dutch composer and conductor. She studied with Daniël de Lange and Frans Coenen in Amsterdam (piano-teaching certificate 1895) and then with Max Bruch at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where from 1908 to 1920 she taught theory and composition – the first woman to do so there. She was also the first woman to win the Mendelssohn state prize for composition, in 1905. The Berlin PO performed a number of her works: the Serenade (1905), the Ballade for Cello and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto (1908). After conducting the Sängerinnen-Verein of the Deutsche Lyceum-Club, she founded the Berlin Tonkünstlerinnen-Orchester in 1910. Both this and the other women’s orchestras she founded in London (1922-1923) and New York (1924-1925) were well received but were forced to disband owing to lack of funds. With the London Women’s SO Kuyper conducted the première of her Das Lied von der Seele. Kuyper left New York in 1925, living for a short period in Berlin, and then in various places in Switzerland. From 1939 until her death she lived in Muzzano, Switzerland. Much of Kuyper’s output is characterized by rich modulatory development. Her early works, such as the Violin Sonata, were influenced by Bruch, but the Lieder op.17 contain refined harmonic colouring and daring modulations which betray the influence of Mahler and Strauss. Her later works, such as Dreams on the Hudson Waltz and American Lovesong, are light pieces of salon music.