Johanna Müller-Hermannaus expressionism + impressionism + modern

Johanna Müller-Hermann (* 15 January 1868 as Johanna Josefine Friederike Hermann in Vienna; † 16 April 1941 ibid.) was an Austrian composer.

Life

Johanna Hermann received music lessons from an early age, together with her two siblings. This was entirely in keeping with the bourgeois ideal of education; her father was head of section in the Ministry of Culture and Education and thus belonged to the upper echelons of the civil service. However, due to the circumstances of the time, she was unable to pursue her musical ambitions any further, but completed a teacher training college and taught at a Viennese primary school for several years.

When she married the transport specialist Otto Müller (Müller-Martini from 1911) in 1893, she no longer had to work and continued her musical studies. This was followed by piano and violin lessons, instruction in music theory with Josef Labor, studies with Guido Adler, whose teachers included Anton Bruckner, and composition lessons with Alexander Zemlinsky, the Czech Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Franz Schmidt. Her opus 1, Sieben Lieder, was printed in 1895. Public performances of her works took place at the Vienna Musikverein and at women’s composition evenings, where she also met Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden. In 1918, Johanna Müller-Herrmann succeeded her teacher Joseph Bohuslav Foerster as Professor of Music Theory at the New Vienna Conservatory.

She left behind an extensive oeuvre: Songs, chamber music, large-scale works for solos, choir and orchestra, mostly on a literary and programmatic basis. After her death, Wilhelm Furtwängler, among others, campaigned for the preservation of her work. In 1995, her Heroic Overture op. 21 and her Epilogue to a Tragedy Brand, symphonic fantasy based on Ibsen’s drama for large orchestra op. 25 (Thorofon, Frauentöne Vol. 1), were released on CD and in 1999 her String Quartet in E flat major op. 6 (Nimbus on Naxos).

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