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• Series: Vocal Collection
• Publisher: Schott
• Format: Softcover
• Voice and Piano
• Composer: Johanna Senfter
• Editor: Rolf Schönstedt
• Price: 13.99 (US)

There are only two sacred solo songs in the extensive oeuvre of the Oppenheim composer Johanna Senfter. Both songs, probably composed in 1917, are influenced by the catastrophe of the First World War. They are hereby presented as the first publication.

JOHANNA SENFTER 1879 – 1961

Born and raised in Oppenheim/Rhein - First lessons from the mother (piano, violin) - School and university years in Frankfurt/Main -From 1895 parallel music studies at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, graduating in 1903 (piano, organ, violin, composition; especially dealing with J.S. Bach) - From 1907 private lessons with Max Reger - October 1908 to 1909 his student at the Leipzig Conservatory - 1909 Arthur Nikisch Prize for the best composition - Then worked in Oppenheim as a freelance composer and music teacher - Friendly relationship between the Reger family and Senfter - With Reger's death in 1916 she lost the protégé for the advertising of her works (approx. 130) - 1921 founding of two music societies.

ROLF SCHÖNSTEDT

Born in Erfurt/Thuringia in 1944 – studied church music in Herford and Cologne – church music exams (B / A / artistic maturity exam / concert exam) Kantor positions in Remscheid, Wuppertal, Hamm/Westf. – KMD, state chairman of church musicians, state church music director, lecturer at the Westf. phil. (“The organ song - a new genre on the threshold of the 20th century”) - As an organist, harpsichordist,conductor, lecturer in Europe, Russia, North and South America, Africa - Co-founder of the 2nd “Reger Festival” in Argentina - Boardmember of the “International Max Reger Society” - Member of the Argentine National Academy for Art and Music - Honors and awards (national / international) - Publisher: Series “The Spiritual Song” / The Organ Works by Karl Hasse - Radio, television, disc /CD.

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