Elisabeth von Herzogenberg

Her father had served as a Hanoverian ambassador and was a pianist linked to Frédéric Chopin and Charles-Valentin Alkan. Although a Protestant, she married the Catholic Heinrich von Herzogenberg.^[1] She is known in large part for her association with Johannes Brahms, with whom she studied and with whom she and her husband corresponded copiously.^[2] As an aristocratic musician, she largely did not perform or publish for the public,^[3] but did arrange children's folk songs.^[4] Her lover, the composer Ethel Smyth, devoted chapter XX of Impressions That Remained: Memoirs to her.^{[5] [failed verification]}

• 24 Volkskinderlieder for voice and piano (1881)
• 8 Klavierstücke^[6]