Gertrud Hermine Kuenzel Roberts

Gertrud Hermine Kuenzel Roberts (22 August 1906 – 11 May 1995) was a versatile American composer, harpsichordist and teacher. She composed incidental music for theatre and film as well as performing and recording on harpsichord.

Roberts was born in Hastings, Minnesota, to Anna Maria and Gustav Kuenzel. She earned a B.A. in music from the University of Minnesota where she studied with Carlyle Scott. She also studied music at the Conservatory of Leipzig with Alfred Baresel and in Vienna with Julia Elbogen. She married Joyce Odney Roberts and they had a son and a daughter.

Roberts moved to Hawaii in 1946,where she taught and helped found the Honolulu Chamber Music Society. (H) Her music was published by Island Heritage, Honolulu.

Yerma (text by Federico García Lorca) Fantaisie after Psalm 150''

“In a Secret Garden” (soprano and harpsichord)

“Love Unspoken” (text by Lady Nesta Oberman)

“Yerma’s Lullaby” (voice and harpsichord)