Sarah Bosmans-Benedicts

Sara Bosmans-Benedicts (23 October 1861 – 12 November 1949) was a Dutch pianist and piano pedagogue.

In 1886, Benedicts married fellow Dutch musician Henri Bosmans [nl] (1856-1896), principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

[1] Widowed in her thirties, with a young child to raise, Sarah Benedicts taught at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam.

[5] Benedicts, in her eighties, was arrested and deported by the Nazi occupation in 1944, but her daughter and others intervened to prevent her further detention.

[6][7] Sara Bosmans-Benedicts died in 1949, and her grave is in Zorgvlied Cemetery in Amsterdam.