Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Wheesht on Monday 03 October 2022, 16:46

Title: Frida Kern (1891-1988)
Post by: Wheesht on Monday 03 October 2022, 16:46
The Austrian composer Frida Kern (Vienna 1891 - Linz 1988) was a student of Franz Schmidt and Eusebius Mandyczewski among others and left a body of 280 numbered works in all genres. The Belgian-Israeli harpist Rachel Talitman has released a CD of chamber works by Kern on her independent label Harp & Co. (https://www.harpandco.be/?p=343). Getting hold of a physical disc is not so easy, it seems, but the recording can be found here (https://youtu.be/yCzWVME9DPM) for the time being.
Title: Re: Frida Kern (1891-1988)
Post by: Alan Howe on Monday 03 October 2022, 17:26
Presto are selling the CD/download:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7965898--kern-f-impressionen-op-51

Here's a list of some of her chamber works:
https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/composer/Freda-Kern/

And a fuller listing of her compositions can be found here:
https://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Kern_Frida/wv_gattung.html

Title: Re: Frida Kern (1891-1988)
Post by: Wheesht on Wednesday 22 November 2023, 02:00
The Austrian National Library has a new online exhibition devoted to Overlooked Female Composers, one of whom is  Frida Kern (https://www.onb.ac.at/museen/online-ausstellungen/die-uebersehenen-komponistinnen/frida-kern-1891-1988)