Käthe Volkart-Schlager

Kathe Volkart-Schlager (7 February 1897 – 1976) was an Austrian composer and music educator, and pianist.

Volkart-Schlager was born in Vienna and studied at the Stuttgart College of Music (now the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart) with Max Pauer, Wilhelm Kempff, and Joseph Hass. She graduated in 1917 and gave concerts and lectures for teachers, traveling to Sweden, Turkey, and Finland. She married architect Hans Volkart and they had at least three children, one of whom was psychotherapist and author Silvia Volkart Gorres. Volkart-Schlager taught at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart for many years.

Volkart-Schlager's music, much of it made for piano with four hands, was published by Suddeutscher Musikverlag (now Barenreiter). The owner, Willy Muller, was considered daring for publishing Volkart-Schlager's works during the 1940s since she opposed Nazism.

Compositions

Chamber music Cycle (cello and viola) Singing Windrose (violin and piano) Sonata in g minor (violin and piano)

Workbook for Young Cellists

Piano 20 Piano Pieces for Teachers and Students

26 Piano Pieces for Teachers and Students Fun Fair (12 pieces)

Old Dances Playground (four hands)

We Make Music on Two Pianos (J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel arranged by Volkart-Schlager for two pianos)

"Das Geheimnis" (The Secret) (text by Max Geissler)

"Die Ferne Flote" (The Distant Flute)

"Föhn" (text by Dora Stieler)

"Gib acht!" (Beware!) (text by Max Geissler)

"Kirschblute" (Cherry Blossom)

"Schenke im Fruhling" (Give in Spring)

"Vor dem Schlafengehen" (Before Bedtime) (text by Hermann Hesse)

"Wie sind die Tage schwer" (How are the days difficult?) (text by Hermann Hesse)