Marjo Tal
1915 - 2006
photo Marjo Tal: Eddy Posthuma de Boer
For a full biography and a complete list of works with links to scores and recordings, visit www.forbiddenmusicregained.org
Marjo Tal shunned publicity and rarely gave interviews. As a composer and a pianist she was solely concerned with creating and recreating music, and was subservient to this her entire life. The few magazine articles about her published through the years reveal her passionate and self-conscious artistry. Sparse photographic material shows a beautiful woman with sensual and melancholic features. Tal survived the war underground. Her career as a pianist peaked in the mid 1960s and she then focused more on composing. At the end of her life she emigrated to Israel.
Marjo Tal was born in The Hague on January 15, 1915, the eldest of three daughters in a liberal Jewish family of orthodox origin. Very early on she showed musical talent and she received violin and piano lessons. The loss of her father, who had died from diabetes on Marjo's twelfth birthday, made that she saw in Sem Dresden, at that time her teacher in solfège, music theory and composition, a substitute father figure. On his advice she came … Continue
Selected works
20 Chansons de Prévert voice and piano
Seven pieces for a gentleman and his recorder 1979 recorder solo
Canciones Españolas 1973 voice and piano
For a complete list of works by Marjo Tal visit our website Forbidden Music Regained
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