She studied music at schools in Leiden and Amsterdam with teachers Jean Baptiste de Paux, Sem Dresden, Steven van Groningen, and Wilhelmina ter Huppen.
Her students included the British musicologist Macario Santiago Kastner.
[6] Dutch artist Engelien Reitsma-Valença engraved a print of Tengbergen at the piano in 1921, which is in the Rijksmuseum today .
[7] Tengbergen corresponded with author and drama critic Jeanne Gabriëlle van Schaik-Willing.
[9] Tengbergen's works were published by Albach, Broekmans & van Poppel,[5] Heuwekemeijer,[10] Ploegsma, and Seyffardt.