Berta Bock

Berta Johanna Amalie Bock née Spech (15 March 1857 - 4 April 1945) was a Romanian composer. She was born in Hermannstadt, Transylvania (now Sibiu, Romania) and also taught piano and voice.^[1] She died in Sibiu.^[2]^[3]

Works

Brock composed an opera, several ballets and songs for voice and piano. Selected works include:

Die Pfingstkrone, opera^[1]
Die alte Linde, op. 10 no. 4 (Text: Anna Schullerus)
Ich sah im Felde, op. 12 no. 5 (Text: R. Kandt)
Noch bin ich jung, op. 6 no. 3 (Text: Helene Tiedemann)
Über den Bergen, op. 9 no. 1 (Text: Karl (or Carl) Busse)
Vor der Schmiede, op. 7 no. 1 (Text: Reinhard Volker)^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Music in Transylvania". http://www.siebenbuerger-bw.de/buch/sachsen/17.htm. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA68&dq=Berta+Bock+(1857%E2%80%931945)&hl=en&ei=FK5DTZ7LFc-p8Ab_7uzIAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Berta%20Bock%20(1857%E2%80%931945)&f=false. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
^ Barth, Hans; Göllner, Carl (1988). Die Siebenbürger Sachsen in den Jahren 1848-1918.
^ "Composer: Berta Bock (1857-1945)". http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/bock.html. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

Persondata
Name	Bock, Berta
Alternative names
Short description	Composer
Date of birth	15 March 1854
Place of birth	Sibiu, Romania
Date of death	4 April 1945
Place of death	Sibiu, Romania