Dick Kattenburg (Amsterdam, 11 November 1919 - Auschwitz, 1944) was a Dutch composer and holocaust victim.
Cattenburg, which was of Jewish comforter, grew up in Naarden and visited the HBS in Bussum. He obtained the diploma theory and violin at the Collège Musical Belge in Antwerp, where he received a degree from Hugo Godron. A good friend from that time was painter and violinist Theo Kroeze. In 1941 he obtained the state diploma theory and violin in The Hague. He also received Leo Smit's lesson.
He and his family were hiding in Utrecht. On May 5, 1944, he was arrested during a raid. He came to Kamp Westerbork and did not go to Auschwitz much later. There he came to life between 22 May and 30 September 1944.
Kattenburg has written about thirty compositions. These were solo and chamber music and orchestral works. In addition, he wrote some Jewish and Palestinian songs, which he called Romanian folk music.
It was long thought that only one composition of him had been preserved. In 2004, however, a relative found a box in the attic with more compositions. In January 2010, his work was first published on CD by the Leo Smit Ensemble under the title of Music by Dick Kattenburg.
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