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Musician / Composer / Producer
A.k.a. Sedje Frank
Rotterdam, April 12, 1923 – Den Haag, February 8, 2011. Dutch violin player, composer, producer, painter, writer, poet and music teacher. In World War II she was active in the anti-nazi resistance. She was arrested and deported to multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There she played the violin the camp orchestra. She survived the war, but in 1953 her fragile health situation didn't allow her to play the violin any more. She continued composing music and introduced the panpipes in classical music. She build her own panpipes, developed a teaching method, started a music school and made recordings with Romanian musicians. Besides in music, she continued being active in many other forms of art and even developed a method to cure RSI problems.