Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab

Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (16 January 1881 – 14 April 1971) was a Dutch composer.

Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a wealthy and devout Jewish family. Jewish observances were strictly followed in the household and young Reine was, in her own words, very devout. She developed an interest in composing music after her children were grown and her husband had died, and studied with Ernest W. Mulder for composition and Henk Badings for melody. In the 1930s she wrote a number of songs with Dutch text, and after World War II she composed Monument in 1946 in honor of her son John who was murdered in Dachau. In the 1920s she translated the work of Martin Buber into Dutch. She died in Amsterdam.

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