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Sophie Wolff-Fritz (15 July 1858 – 1938)  was a German composer, singer and teacher. [1] She was born in Vohl and studied singing in Darmstadt under Luise Muller, and later under Femy Schnyder. [2] Woff-Fritz taught in a nursery school and at the Kirschbaum Institute before moving to Buenos Aires in 1891, where she was the principal of a music school until 1904. [3] After 1907, she returned to Berlin and taught singing there. She wrote at least one article on singing, which was published in 1921. [4] Her compositions for voice and piano include: [5]

  • Children's Songs (1912-1928)
  • Fate
  • Five Songs (1912-1922)
  • Peace
  • Picture
  • Prayer

References

  1. ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN  0-8108-2769-7. OCLC  28889156.
  2. ^ Wier, Albert Ernest (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan.
  3. ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam. (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN  0-8161-8498-4. OCLC  6815939.
  4. ^ Berliner Titeldrucke (in German). Behrend. 1922.
  5. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (2nd, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN  0-9617485-2-4. OCLC  16714846.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)