Paul Seelig, composer from Bandung, Java

Paul Seelig (Funkenberg,Germany, 1876 – Batavia, 1945) lived most of his life in Bandung on the island of Java. Inspired by Javanese gamelan, kroncong, Comedy Stamboel and Malay pantun poetry, he composed a small but interesting oeuvre. He was quite successful abroad: in Siam, Austria, Australia and America. In Siam he was awarded the Order of the White Elephant, in Vienna he was called an Oriental Master, in Australia his Malaysian songs had great s...

Het Indies jaarboek 2022 bevat nagenoeg alle boek- en tentoonstellingsbesprekingen die op de website indiestijdschrift.nl zijn verschenen. Daarmee worden degenen bediend die graag van papier lezen.

Alle Afrikaanse landen hebben nationale en privéwildparken. Namibië heeft daarnaast ook nog concessies. Damaraland in centraal Namibië was ooit deel van een Duitse kolonie, daarna van Zuid-Afrika. Toen het apartheidsregime viel, kregen de Damara’s hun land, de Namibwoestijn, zo groot als Nederland, in concessie van de Namibische regering. Hier zijn ze autonoom, onder één voorwaarde: de biodiversiteit moet in stand blijven. Ieder jaar wordt het aantal planten en dieren geteld. Het is oo...

Constant van de Wall, a European-Javanese composer

Constant van de Wall (Surabaya, 1871 – Nice, 1945) occupies a prominent place in the list of Indisch composers because of a number of uniquely European-Javanese compositions: songs, pieces for piano and for orchestra, chamber music, and the opera Attima. From this it is evident that his eyes and ears were open to the country where he was born and raised: the nature, Javanese antiquities, the shadow play, the Malay pantun, Javanese dance, g...

Two introductions to the life of composer Linda Bandara are presented in this booklet. The first one is written in by Dutch pianist Henk Mak van Dijk.

The second one is based on an article by the late Klaus Kuiper: ‘Linda Bandara and the gamelan. A musical soul between East and West’.

Linda Bandara (artist name for Linda Leber-Hofland) was an outstanding composer who succeeded in building a bridge between European and Javanese music. Not only did she study gamelan extensively, she was al...

This booklet gives an overview of Dutch composers in connection with the Dutch East Indies who have left a modest Indisch oeuvre or who have occasionally written an Indisch composition. It is a colourful collection, which is difficult to classify: the composers were either born in the Dutch East Indies or elsewhere, they lived in the east for a shorter or longer period of time or were just inspired in Holland by exotic art, stories and poetry. (photo cover: conductor/ composer Dirk Fock)

Indisch Classical Music

When in 2004, in collaboration with the National Music Institute in The Hague, Henk Mak van Dijk started researching the lives and works of Dutch composers with close links to the Netherlands Indies, he had no idea that so much unknown, yet extraordinary music was to be uncovered. Here were compositions in which a western, romantic or impressionistic idiom would to a greater or lesser extent be mixed with elements of the music indigenous to the then Netherlands Indies:...

De op Ambon geboren gebroeders Tehupeiory behoren in 1907 tot de allereerste landskinderen van Nederlands-Indië die studeren in Holland – ze volgen de studie geneeskunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. De oudste had toen al furore gemaakt als auteur van ‘Onder de Dajaks in Centraal-Borneo’, ‘het beste boek ooit door een inlander in het Nederlands geschreven’. Zijn jongere broer doet in 1909 van zich spreken, wanneer hij terug in Indië zowel een succesvol studiefonds voor de Mol...