Women Composers

* 1976 in China

In her compositions, Ying Wang deals with topics such as environmental pollution, global social grievances, political persecution and our ambivalent relationship with technol­o­gy. She established herself as a composer who critically reflects and re-thinks chamber and orchestral music. Her musical language is spontaneously giving room to a sensory and bodily experience of her world. Her first homes in Shanghai and Beijing, as well as her new one in Berlin, form a contrast that is conceptually and musically embedded in her…

* 1894 in Wien
✝ 1982 in New York

Vally Weigl belonged to a Jewish merchant family from Vienna. Between 1913 and 1918 she studied musicology, music teaching, psychology and philosophy in her home city and took private lessons to acquire additional musical skills in piano playing, music theory and composition. She was a pupil of Richard Robert and Karl Weigl whom she later married. Due to the persecution resulting from the Nuremberg Race Laws she fled with her family to the USA where she worked as a pianist…

* 1963 in Taipeh, Taiwan

Wen-Hui Tu was born in Taipeh, Taiwan, in 1964. She showed musical talent quite early which was directed to the piano by her mother. Aged 6 she attended a private music school, where she was given a classical European kind of musical training. At the early age of 7 she began to write her first piano compositions, at first for two and later also for four hands, and performed these pieces together with her sister. Between 1979 and 1984 Wen-Hui…

* 1708
✝ 1757

Wilhelmine von Bayreuth and her musically knowledgeable husband, Margrave Friedrich (1711–1763), not only provided for splendour in their Franconian residence in the form of new stage sets, but also ensured an interesting and original programme. Although Friedrich appeared to appreciate the entertainment muse more than that of great opera, Wilhelmine was clearly the sponsor of “opera seria”. Thus, after chamber music that was initially more in the French style at the start of the reign of the Margrave and his…

Dorothy Williams war an mehreren Hochschulen als Musikdozentin tätig und arbeitete als Klavierbegleiterin an der Eastman School of Music. Sie ist Organistin an der Mayfl ower Community Congregational Kirche und hat mehrfach Kompositionen für den Calliope Frauenchor, den One Voice gemischten Chor sowie für den Chor TransVoices geschrieben sowie Aufführungen begleitet. Sie hat zwei Kinder und sechs Enkelkinder und lebt in St. Paul, Minnesota.

* 1917 in St. Ingbert
✝ 2005 in Friedberg

The composer Erna Woll studied Protestant church music with Wolfgang Fortner in Heidelberg and composition with Joseph Haas and Gustav Geierhaas at the Munich Academy of Music, as well as school music and Catholic church music at the Cologne University of Music, among others with Hermann Schroeder. She was u. a. Honorary professor at the University of Education in Augsburg. Her oeuvre includes over 200 works, mainly sacred music. Some choir songs have been released by Furore.

* 1857 in Hamburg
✝ 1935

Über die Sängerin und Komponistin Emma Wooge ist nur wenig bekannt. Sie wurde am 2. April 1857 in Hamburg geboren und starb am 13. April 1935 in Berlin. Wooge war eine Schülerin von Eduard Behm und Richard J. Eichberg. Zwischen 1880 und 1882 war sie als Mezzosopranistin am Hamburger Staatstheater engagiert. Ab 1883 sang sie in Darmstadt, bevor sie in der Zeit vom 18. August 1885 bis 1. Juli 1886 Ensemblemitglied des Stadttheaters zu Leipzig war. Sie ließ sich in…

* 1860 in Southampton
✝ 1938 in München

Mary Wurm war eine britische Pianistin, Dirigentin und Komponistin mit deutscher Abstammung. Geboren wurde sie am 18. Mai 1860 in Southampton, am 21. Januar 1938 ist sie in München verstorben. Sie studierte Klavier und Komposition am Konservatorium in Stuttgart und war später u. a. Schülerin von Clara Schumann. In London studierte sie Komposition und gewann drei Mal in Folge das Mendelssohn-Stipendium. 1889 setzte sie ihr Kompositionsstudium in Leipzig fort. Die meiste Zeit ihres Lebens war Deutschland ihre Heimat. In Berlin…