Johanna Müller-Hermann

Johanna Müller -Hermann (born 15 January 1868 in Vienna, † April 19, 1941 ibid ) was an Austrian composer.

Life

Early Johanna Hermann took music lessons, together with her two siblings. This corresponded entirely to the middle-class ideal of education, her father was Head of Section at the Ministry of Culture and Education, and thus belonged to the fine state officials. According to the circumstances of the times, however, they could not pursue their musical ambitions, but graduated from the Teachers' Training College and taught for several years at a Vienna Elementary School.

With the marriage in 1893 of the traffic expert Otto Müller Martini accounted for until then necessary work and she continued her music studies. This was followed by piano and violin lessons, instruction in music theory with Josef laboratory studies with Guido Adler, whose teacher was, among other things, Anton Bruckner, theory of composition with Alexander Zemlinsky, Czech Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Franz Schmidt. Your Opus 1, Seven Songs, printed in 1895. Public performances of their works were carried out in the Vienna Musikverein and Mrs. composition evenings, where she also met with Mathilde Kralik of Meyrswalden. 1918 Johanna Müller- Hermann successor of her teacher, Joseph Bohuslav Foerster as a professor of music theory at the New Vienna Conservatory.

She left an extensive body of work: songs, chamber music, large scale works for soloists, chorus and orchestra, usually on a literary and programmatic basis. After her death, among other things, Furtwängler Wilhelm sat for the preservation of their work a. Heroic Overture, Op 21 1995 her and her Epilogue to a tragedy of fire, symphonic fantasy after Ibsen's drama for large orchestra op was 25 ( Thorofon, woman sounds Vol. 1), released on CD in 1999 and her String Quartet in E flat major, Op 6 ( Nimbus by Naxos ).

Works

Songs

( for one voice and piano unless otherwise stated )

• Seven Songs, Op 1 ( published Gutmann 1895)
• Five Songs, Op 2
• Four Songs, Op 4
• Two female choir and orchestra, Op 10
• Four Songs, Op 14
• Three Songs, Op 19
• Four Songs, Op 20
• German oath for male chorus and orchestra, Op 22
• Autumn Songs, Op 28
• Three Songs, Op 32 (No. 1 me orchestral accompaniment )
• Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra, Op 33

Cantatas

• Song of Memory, op 30

Sonatas

• Sonata in D minor for Violin and Piano, Op 5
• Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op 17