• Composer: KINKEL, Johanna (1810 - 1858)
• Genre : Art song / Lieder
• 979070-8082-45-3

charming picturesque songs by a female composer who is becoming increasingly popular, and whose life story has a strong resonance with the women of today. She struggled against inequality, divorced an abusive husband, was a working mother & breadwinner, a writer, a lecturer, and a piano and singing teacher who faced all the same problems as music teachers of today - and wrote books about it.

Each song has the original German words plus faithful sing-able English translations by Roz Trubger that closely follow the original meter, meaning and rhymes.

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Longer samples open in Soundcloud 

Johanna Kinkel (also Mathieux, Mockel) made her mark in the worlds of both music and literature and her life makes a fascinating story.  Born in Bonn, her childhood music studies were with Beethoven’s teacher. As an adult, she was a friend of Fanny Mendelssohn and Karl Marx. She got caught up in the revolutionary events of 1849 and emigrated to London after helping her husband escape from Spandau prison. Her short life ended tragically when she fell (or was pushed?) from her bedroom window in London (England) near Paddington station.