Julius Hijman (1901 - 1969)

Julius Hijman (1901–1969), a Jew, had the foresight to flee to the United States in 1939, and settled in Philadelphia, where he taught. He was a pianist who was very involved in making the most important contemporary composers known in the Netherlands, and the Dutch in France and the US. Completely forgotten today, in the 1930s he composed a Sonatina for alto saxophone and piano, and a 1936 Sonatine for piano, the central piece of which is Blue, rich in descending chromaticism, of surrendered melancholy.