Background
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
She developed an interest in composing music after her children were grown and her husband had died, and studied with Ernest West. Mulder for composition and Henk Badings for melody.
In the 1920s she translated the work of Martin Buber into Dutch. She died in Amsterdam in 1971.