Kathe Volkart-Schlager Explained

Kathe Volkart-Schlager (7 February 1897 – 1976)^[1] was an Austrian composer and music educator, and pianist.^[2]

Volkart-Schlager was born in Vienna and studied at the Stuttgart College of Music (now the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart) with Max Pauer, Wilhelm Kempff,^[3] and Joseph Hass. She graduated in 1917 and gave concerts and lectures for teachers, traveling to Sweden, Turkey, and Finland.^[4] She married architect Hans Volkart and they had at least three children, one of whom was psychotherapist and author Silvia Volkart Gorres. Volkart-Schlager taught at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart for many years.^[5]

Volkart-Schlager's music, much of it made for piano with four hands, was published by Suddeutscher Musikverlag (now Barenreiter). The owner, Willy Muller, was considered daring for publishing Volkart-Schlager's works during the 1940s since she opposed Nazism.^[6]

• Cycle (cello and viola)
• Cycle (oboe and viola)
• Moravian Suite (oboe and piano)
• Seven Small Pieces (two violins and piano)^[7]
• Singing Windrose (violin and piano)
• Sonata in c minor (violin and piano)
• Sonata in d minor (oboe and piano)^[8]
• Sonata in g minor (violin and piano)
• Two Sonatinas (oboe or violin and piano or harpsichord)
• Workbook for Little Violinists^[9]
• Workbook for Young Cellists^[10]

Piano

• 20 Piano Pieces for Teachers and Students^[11]
• 26 Piano Pieces for Teachers and Students
• 30 Easy Piano Pieces for Beginners
• All Sorts for Three: Seven Small Pieces
• Colorful Circle vol 1 & 2
• Colorful Picture Book for Young Piano Players
• For Little People: 30 Easy Piano Pieces for Beginners
• Four-Handed Keyboard Crocodile: Easy Piano Pieces for Children (four hands)^[12]
• Fun Fair (12 pieces)
• Garden Party (14 pieces for four hands)
• Little World (10 pieces)
• Mohrentanz and Mummenschanz (four hands)
• More Joy in Twos: 20 Pieces for Teachers and Students (four hands)^{[11] [13]}
• Old Dances^[14]
• Playground (four hands)
• Sleeping Beauty (four hands)
• Tone Circles (four hands)^[15]
• We Make Music on Two Pianos (J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel arranged by Volkart-Schlager for two pianos)
• Shoemaker (four hands)

• "Assistono Diversi Santi" (Several Saints Attend)^[16]
• "Das Geheimnis" (The Secret) (text by Max Geissler)^[17]
• "Die Ferne Flote" (The Distant Flute)
• "Föhn" (text by Dora Stieler)
• "Gib acht!" (Beware!) (text by Max Geissler)
• "Kirschblute" (Cherry Blossom)
• "Schenke im Fruhling" (Give in Spring)
• "Vor dem Schlafengehen" (Before Bedtime) (text by Hermann Hesse)
• "Wie sind die Tage schwer" (How are the days difficult?) (text by Hermann Hesse)

External links

• Hear Volkart-Schlager's music for piano four hands
• Volkart-Schlager family papers and photos are archived at the Germanishes National Museum in Nuremberg, Germany

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schott Music. 2021-02-17. en.schott-music.com.
2. Book: Hixon, Donald L.. Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. 1993. Scarecrow Press. Don A. Hennessee. 0-8108-2769-7. 2nd. Metuchen, N.J.. 28889156.
3. Book: Pedigo, Alan. International encyclopedia of violin-keyboard sonatas and composer biographies. 1995. Arriaga Publications. 978-0-9606356-2-7. en.
4. Book: Cohen, Aaron I.. International encyclopedia of women composers. 1987. 0-9617485-2-4. Second edition, revised and enlarged. New York. 16714846.
5. Book: Börner, Klaus. Handbuch der Klavierliteratur zu vier Händen an einem instrument. 2005. Atlantis Musikbuch. 3-254-00265-2. Zürich. 64136403.
6. Web site: Bärenreiter Verlag Süddeutscher Musikverlag Willy Müller. 2021-02-17. www.baerenreiter.com.
7. Web site: Der Artikel mit der oldthing-id '31731139' ist aktuell nicht lieferbar.. 2021-02-17. oldthing.de. de.
8. Web site: SWR2. SWR2. SWR2 Musik aus unseren Archiven. 2021-02-17. swr.online. de. 2021-02-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20210217082004/https://www.swr.de/swr2/musik-klassik/swr2-musik-aus-unseren-archiven-2021-02-16-100.html. dead.
9. Book: Volkart-Schlager, Käthe. Arbeitsbuch für junge Cellisten. 1960. W. Müller. de.
10. Book: Office, Library of Congress Copyright. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1961. en.
11. Web site: Zu zweit mehr Freud 2 von Volkart-Schlager, Käthe im Stretta Noten Shop kaufen. 2021-02-17. www.stretta-music.de.
12. Book: The Four-handed Keyboard Crocodile: Easy Piano Pieces for Children varios autores. es.
13. Web site: Scoreography Women Composers T UO Music UO Libraries. 2021-02-17. library.uoregon.edu.
14. Book: Classical Keyboard Music in Print, 1993. 1993. Accolade Press. en.
15. Web site: Giraudet. Jean-Paul. 2013-03-25. Hans Schlager. 2021-02-17. musicalics.com. fr.
16. Web site: Repertoire Ina Yoshikawa. 2021-02-17. de-DE.
17. Web site: HMDK Stuttgart - Veranstaltungskalender. 2021-02-17. www.hmdk-stuttgart.de.