Marjo Tal

Marjo Tal (15 January 1915 - 27 August 2006)[1] was a Dutch composer[2] and pianist[3] who wrote the music for over 150 songs and often performed them while accompanying herself on the piano.

[4] In 1936, she won a 3-year government scholarship to study in London with pianist Franz Osborn, where she also accompanied the students of violinist Carl Flesch.

[1] Tal returned to the Netherlands, where she made her debut at the Diligentia Theatre (in The Hague) on 7 March 1940.

Marjo Tal remained in the Netherlands with her mother, who had survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

[1] Tal set poems by the following poets to music: Anna Akhmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Charles Baudelaire, Esther Blom, Rupert Brooke, Robert Desnos, Paul Eluard, Jan Engelman, Elizabeth Eybers, Maurice Fombeure, Paul Fort, Paul Geraldy, Jan Hendrix Leopoldo, Federico Garcia Lorca, Osip Mandelstam, Jacques Prevert, and Raymond Queneau.