Henny Wolff

Henny Wolff (3 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a German soprano concert singer and voice teacher. She made an international career, known for performing music by Bach and Handel, but also performing contemporary classical music. Composers wrote music for her and performed with her, such as Hermann Reutter. She was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory, in Berlin, and from 1950 to 1964 at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She was awarded the city's Johannes Brahms Medal.

Life Wolff was born in Cologne, the daughter of Karl Wolff, chief editor and music critic of the journal Kölner Tageblatt, and Henriette Dwillat, a concert singer and voice teacher. She studied with her mother,