Johanna Senfter

This character piece is still firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition of descriptive musical imagery. An early work, its formal structure is characterised by onglike thematic phrases, softly flowing m...

The number of well-known clarinet quintets is quite small. The only major composers whose clarinet quintets are relatively widespread are Mozart, Brahms, Weber and Reger.The composer Johanna Senfter (...

The overall oeuvre of Johanna Senfter only includes three free organ works: 'Fantasie und Fuge' Op. 30a (in: Female Composers, ED 9741), the present variations 'Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit' Op. 66 and an...

Johanna Senfter studied music at the Conservatoire in Frankfurt and then in 1908/9 with Max Reger at the Leipzig Conservatoire. Her late Romantic music draws inspiration from the polyphonic structure...

Johanna Senfter studied music at the Conservatoire in Frankfurt and then in 1908/9 with Max Reger at the Leipzig Conservatoire. Her late Romantic music draws inspiration from the polyphonic structure...

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) is one of the most interesting composers of the late Romantic period. She studied piano and composition at the Frankfurt Conservatoire 1895-1903 and thereafter in Leipzig w...

These Six Waltzes (1902) for piano, four hands by Johanna Senfter are published here for the first time: this will represent another small step towards the long overdue rediscovery of music from the b...

The composer Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) studied with Max Reger in Leipzig from 1908 to 1910 and on graduation won the Arthur Nikisch award. She valued Reger greatly and a life-long friendship ensued....

Johanna Senfter’s Duo, completed in 1956, is the last and at the same time most compact of her five compositions for viola and piano. The impressive work is in a classical A-B-A form. Two mostly calm,...

In 1932 Johanna Senfter wrote Sechs Stücke for the church holidays for viola and organ. She arranged five of them for viola and piano as well. They are remarkable, atmospheric and colourful character...

The Sonata F minor for viola and piano op. 41, completed in May 1922, still breathes the spirit of the grand master Reger and yet already goes its own way in terms of rhythm, harmony, modulation and f...

The second Sonata F major for viola and piano op. 101 was composed in 1943 and is a fascinating testimony to its time. It stands in the tradition of the great classical sonata literature and yet is ch...

Of the five works that Johanna Senfter wrote for viola and piano, the Variations op. 94, completed at the beginning of the 1940s, are certainly her most sophisticated composition in terms of harmony a...

The Trio in G major / E minor op. 103 by the Oppenheim composer and pupil of Max Regers can be assigned to the composer's late work on the basis of the opus number, even if no year of composition and...

The Sonata for clarinet, viola, horn and piano, op. 37 was composed in 1920 (at the latest). The violist Michael Balling, a friend of Johanna Senfter, wrote to the composer about the work, which he ha...

The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leip...

With this double concerto, the Reger pupil Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) is entirely in the tradition of Antonio Vivaldi and J.S. Bach, although she combines the concerto form with the classical four-mo...

Johanna Senfter erhielt mit 29 Jahren, 1908, Theorie- und Kompositionsunterricht bei Max Reger. Obwohl sie noch relativ unbekannt ist, wird sie immer mehr entdeckt, denn ihre Stücke eignen sich wegen...