Johanna Senfter

Johanna Senfter ( 27 November 1879; 11 August 1961) was a German composer.

Johanna Senfter was born and died in Oppenheim. From 1895^[1] she studied composition under Iwan Knorr,^[1] violin under Adolf Rebner,^[1] piano under Karl Friedberg^[1] and organ at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. This gave her a considerable amount of musical training when in 1908 she became a student of Max Reger in Leipzig. She composed 9 symphonies, 26 orchestral works and concertos for piano, violin, viola, and cello. Senfter was a masterful composer of fugue. All together she left behind 134 works.

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