Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden

The manuscript was written on October 18, 1892 and is now kept in the Austrian National Library. It comprises 20 pages. Kralik titled it as follows: Herbstgefühl von Goethe Musik für Mezzosopran, Alt,...

At the time when Johann Strauss was celebrating his great successes, there were, alongside the well-known and famous composers, a number of women who also created works in the "Viennese music" genre....

The songs are entirely in the Romantic tradition of the composer's excellent musical training, who composed these songs in the finest onomatopoeic style. The "Vier Lieder mit Kammerorchester" were per...

Mathilde Kralik wrote the Weihnachts-Idyll (Christmas Idyll) in December 1926 at the age of 69. It is a work in which the tonality of late Romanticism seems to be stretched to its limits. An idyll is...