Elisabeth Johanna Lamina Kuyper was a Dutch Romantic composer and conductor.
11 Facts About Elisabeth Kuyper
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Elisabeth Kuyper was born in Amsterdam, the eldest of three children.
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Elisabeth Kuyper began composing at an early age, including a piano sonata and a prelude and fugue, which she performed for her diploma examination in 1895, and a one-act opera that was performed in Amsterdam in 1895.
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Elisabeth Kuyper moved to Berlin in 1896 to continue her composition studies with Heinrich Barth and Leopold Carl Wolff at the Hochschule fur Musik, completing her studies there in 1900.
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In 1901, Kuyper became the first woman to be admitted to study composition at the Meisterschule fur Komposition, led by Max Bruch.
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Elisabeth Kuyper was quite productive as a composer during her master classes with Bruch, including creating a violin sonata, a ballad for cello and orchestra, and a serenade for orchestra.
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Elisabeth Kuyper conducted many of her compositions, recommended her for stipends from the Dutch government, and even helped her obtain German citizenship.
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On October 1,1905, Elisabeth Kuyper became the first woman composer to be awarded the Mendelssohn Prize.
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Elisabeth Kuyper then composed perhaps her best known and most played work, the Violin Concerto in B Minor, opus 10.
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In 1925 Elisabeth Kuyper returned to Europe and her teaching position at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin, then retired to Switzerland.
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Elisabeth Kuyper died in the town of Muzzano, in the Lugano district of Switzerland.