Dennis H. Coolwijk - Het boek van Peter (1-10)

Dennis Herbert Coolwijk (1912 - ?)
Coolwijk was born in 1912 to Herrebertus Theodorus Coolwijk and Elsie Marie Cownie in 's-Gravenhage. He began his musical education with Willem Petri in Utrecht. He then studied with Hugo Godron and Georges Enderlé. In 1931, Coolwijk married Nini Oldenboom During this time, the musician was already composing piano pieces. Coolwijk also wrote articles about new pieces of music in the Grammophoon revue. After their daughter Else was born in 1932, the parents divorced a year later.

Coolwijk then moved to the Dutch colony of Indonesia. There, in 1937, he married his old childhood friend Elisabeth "Bep" Rietveld, daughter of the well-known Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld. Shortly afterwards, their two children Vrouwke (1939) and Elsie (1941) were born. During World War II, he and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp. After the war, Elisabeth Rietveld separated from Coolwijk and returned to the Netherlands with her children. Coolwijk also left the colony and returned to Utrecht, where he subsequently worked as a piano teacher and piano tuner.

00:00 In de Speeltuin
01:23 In de Hangmat
03:44 Op de Wip
04:14 Slaapliedje
05:55 Marsch
06:53 Negerliedje
09:33 Schommelliedje
11:05 Op de Hinkelbaan
12:02 Zondagmorgen
13:39 Poes is dood