TUSSENBROEK, Hendrika Van

Hendrika Cornelia van Tussenbroek was a Dutch composer and teacher who is best known for her music for children. Tussenbroek wrote words as well as music for many of her songs and operettas. She also composed music for texts by other writers.
Tussenbroek's children's operetta De Drie Kaboutertjes (The Three Goblins; opus 13) was performed at the National Exhibition of Women's Labor at The Hague in 1898. Tussenbroek rehearsed the children herself.

Helen Metzelaar noted in 2001 that Tussenbroek and Catharina van Rennes "inspired a love of music in both young and old" and "created a new genre for children which remained viable in the Netherlands up to the 1960s."