Kathe Volkart-Schlager
Austrian composer and musicologist
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Kathe Volkart-Schlager (7 February 1897 – 1976)[1] was an Austrian composer and music educator, and pianist.[2]
Volkart-Schlager was born in Vienna and studied at the Stuttgart College of Music (now the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart) with Max Pauer, Wilhelm Kempff,[3] and Joseph Hass. She graduated in 1917 and gave concerts and lectures for teachers, traveling to Sweden, Turkey, and Finland.[4] She married architect Hans Volkart and they had at least three children, one of whom was psychotherapist and author Silvia Volkart Gorres. Volkart-Schlager taught at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart for many years.[5]
Volkart-Schlager's music, much of it made for piano with four hands, was published by Suddeutscher Musikverlag (now Barenreiter). The owner, Willy Muller, was considered daring for publishing Volkart-Schlager's works during the 1940s since she opposed Nazism.[6]
Compositions
Chamber music
- Cycle (cello and viola)[4]
- Cycle (oboe and viola)[4]
- Moravian Suite (oboe and piano)[4]
- Seven Small Pieces (two violins and piano)[7]
- Singing Windrose (violin and piano)[4]
- Sonata in c minor (violin and piano)[4]
- Sonata in d minor (oboe and piano)[8]
- Sonata in g minor (violin and piano)[4]
- Two Sonatinas (oboe or violin and piano or harpsichord)[4]
- Workbook for Little Violinists[9]
- Workbook for Young Cellists[10]
Piano
- 20 Piano Pieces for Teachers and Students[11]
- 26 Piano Pieces for Teachers and Students[6]
- 30 Easy Piano Pieces for Beginners[6]
- Colorful Picture Book for Young Piano Players[6]
- For Little People: 30 Easy Piano Pieces for Beginners[6]
- Four-Handed Keyboard Crocodile: Easy Piano Pieces for Children (four hands)[12]
- Fun Fair (12 pieces)[4]
- Mohrentanz and Mummenschanz (four hands)[10]
- Sleeping Beauty (four hands)[14]
- Tone Circles (four hands)[15]
- We Make Music on Two Pianos (J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel arranged by Volkart-Schlager for two pianos)[5]
- Shoemaker (four hands)[11]
Vocal music
- "Assistono Diversi Santi" (Several Saints Attend)[16]
- "Das Geheimnis" (The Secret) (text by Max Geissler)[17]
- "Die Ferne Flote" (The Distant Flute)[16]
- "Föhn" (text by Dora Stieler)[17]
- "Gib acht!" (Beware!) (text by Max Geissler)[17]
- "Kirschblute" (Cherry Blossom)[16]
- "Schenke im Fruhling" (Give in Spring)[16]
- "Vor dem Schlafengehen" (Before Bedtime) (text by Hermann Hesse)[17]
- "Wie sind die Tage schwer" (How are the days difficult?) (text by Hermann Hesse)[17]