Voormolen, (born in 1895) is one of the young Dutch Composers of to-day who have written a good deal of interesting music. He was trained partly in Holland and partly in France, working under Ravel, Roussel and Rhene-Baton.
His works include a 'Symphonietia,' a 'Melodrama' for Voice and Pianoforte, and Chamber Music for Strings and Pianoforte.

The Trio we are to hear (it was written when he was twenty-three) has three Movements. In the First a slow prelude leads to an animated Movement. The Second is called Pavane, after the Italian dance that was for long the chief slow dance in the old Suites. The Last Movement is naturally in more vigorous mood.

Henri Zagwijn (born 1878) is a notable Dutch Composer of to-day. His considerable output (it includes Choral works, Overtures, Chamber Music, and works for a Reciter with Orchestra) is built upon foundations of knowledge that is very largely self-obtained, for he had little outside training. He teaches Composition at the School of Music in Rotterdam, and has written a brochure on Modern Movements in Music.

Willem Pijper, one of the youngest Composers of note in Holland, is only thirty-three, but he has already had a good deal of experience, having spent several years as a Music Critic, as a teacher of Harmony at the Amsterdam Music School, and as Conductor, His experience in this last capacity includes the rather unusual post of directing the Utrecht Sextet of Wind Instrument Players.
His first Symphony, entitled Pan, appeared in 1917, and since then he has written busily, bringing out music for Pianoforte and Orchestra, for various Chamber combinations, and for voices. He has within recent years written music for the stage production of the Antigone of Sophocles, a second Symphony, a Wind and Pianoforte Sextet, and other works. At the four days' Festival of the Nederlandsche Toonkunstenaars Vereeniging in 1925 his music was among the most striking of all that came from the twenty-four Composers represented.

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