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Pauline Volkstein (19 January 1849 – 6 May 1925) was a German composer[1] of over 1,000 songs.[2]

Volkstein was born in Quedlinburg. She had little formal music training, but came from a musical family. Her mother had studied counterpoint with Friedrich Schneider, and her uncle was cellist and composer Bernhard Cossmann.[3] Volkstein lived in Paris, Dresden, Murano, and Naples before settling in Weimar with her sister in 1905.[4] Her first songs were published around that time.[3]

Volkstein set her own poems to music and also composed music for texts by poets Arndt, Bierbaum, Chamisso, Eichendorff, Falke, Fallersleben, Flaischlen, Fleming, Geibel, Gersdorff, Goethe, Greif, Halm, Groth, Heine, Keller, Kerner, Lenau, Liliencron, Lons, Morike, Muller, Opitz, Roquette, Saar, Schenkendorf, Storm, Uhland, and Wolff.[3] She composed some pieces with piano or guitar accompaniment, but wrote many stand-alone melodies that were later arranged with accompaniments by other composers, such as Armin Knab and Justus Hermann Wetzel.

Volkstein self-published some of her music.[5] Several of her songs with guitar accompaniment initially appeared in Der Wächter, a magazine associated with the German youth movement during the 1920s and 1930s.[6] Her music was also published by Fritz Schuberth[7] and Ries & Erler GMBH.

Volkstein's compositions include:

  • 12 Folksongs (see External Links)
  • 12 Lieder[8]
  • 12 Lieder (piano setting by Justus Hermann Wetzel)[9]
  • 20 Songs with Guitar Accompaniment[10]
  • 24 Folksongs with Simple Accompaniment[11][12]
  • Bloom, Dear Violet (arranged by Armin Knab)[13]
  • Jungfrau Zimperlich (text by Ludwig Pfau)[14]
  • Melodies (piano setting by Justus Hermann Wetzel)[15]
  • New Folksongs (1922)[16]
  • Piano compositions[17]
  • Spinning Song (arranged by Armin Knab)[13]

References

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  1. ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. R. Rosen Press.
  2. ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. ^ a b c "Pauline Volkstein und ihre Volkslieder. Von Dr. Armin Knab. - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek". www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de (in German). Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  4. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (Second, revised and enlarged ed.). New York: R. R. Bowker. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  5. ^ Münchhausen, Börries Freiherr von (1924). Das Balladenbuch (in German). Deutsche Verlags-austalt.
  6. ^ Periodica Musica: Newsletter of the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale Du XIXe Siècle, Centres Internationaux de Recherche Sur la Presse Musicale. Centre for Studies in Nineteenth-Century Music. 1991.
  7. ^ Graphik, Leipzig Internationale Ausstellung für Buchgewerbe und (1914). Die Frau im Buchgewerbe und in der Graphik: Sondergruppe der Weltausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik, Leipzig, 1914 (in German). Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein.
  8. ^ Joachim Braun; Vladimír Karbusický; Heidi Tamar Hoffmann, eds. (1995). Verfemte Musik : Komponisten in den Diktaturen unseres Jahrhunderts : Dokumentation des Kolloquiums vom 9.-12. Januar 1993 in Dresden. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISBN 3-631-47618-3. OCLC 32994354.
  9. ^ Breslaur, Emil; Morsch, Anna (1926). Musikpädagogische Blatter ...: Zentralblatt fur das gesamte musikalische Unterrichtswesen (in German). W. Peiser Verlag.
  10. ^ Janna MacAuslan; Kristan Aspen, eds. (1997). Guitar music by women composers : an annotated catalog. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29385-6. OCLC 36589202.
  11. ^ Die Stimme: Centralblatt für Stimm- und Tonbildung, Gesangunterricht und Stimmhygiene (in German). 1910.
  12. ^ Der Merker (in German). A. Schnase. 1970.
  13. ^ a b "Deutsches Lied - Composers and Poets". www.deutscheslied.com. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  14. ^ "Pauline Volkstein (1849 - 1925) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  15. ^ Jung, Michael (1989). Liederbücher im Nationalsozialismus (in German). Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt am Main.
  16. ^ Lothar Bluhm (2018). "Ich wandle unter Blumen/Und blühe selber mit" zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Gartens. Baden-Baden: Tectum Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8288-4086-7. OCLC 1037153274.
  17. ^ Geschlossene Vorstellung : der Jüdische Kulturbund in Deutschland 1933-1941 (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Akademie der Künste. 1992. ISBN 3-89468-024-5. OCLC 26014957.
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