Pauline Volkstein

Pauline Volkstein (19 January 1849 – 6 May 1925) was a German composer of more than 1,000 songs.

Biography Volkstein was born in Quedlinburg, Germany. She had little formal music training, but came from a musical family. Her mother had studied counterpoint with Friedrich Schneider, and her uncle was cellist and composer Bernhard Cossmann. Volkstein lived in Paris, Dresden, Murano, and Naples, before settling in Weimar with her sister in 1905. Her first songs were published around that time. Several of her songs with guitar accompaniment initially appeared in Der Wächter, a magazine associated with the German youth movement during the 1920s and 1930s. Her music was also published by Fritz Schuberth and Ries & Erler GMBH.

Volkstein's compositions include:

12 Folksongs (see External links) 12 Lieder 12 Lieder (piano setting by Justus Hermann Wetzel; see External Links) 20 Songs with Guitar Accompaniment 24 Folksongs with Simple Accompaniment Bloom, Dear Violet (arranged by Armin Knab) Jungfrau Zimperlich (text by Ludwig Pfau) Melodies (piano setting by Justus Hermann Wetzel) New Folksongs (1922) Piano compositions Spinning Song (arranged by Armin Knab)