Henny Wolff was a German soprano concert singer and voice teacher.
12 Facts About Henny Wolff
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Henny Wolff made an international career, known for performing music by Bach and Handel, but performing contemporary classical music.
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Henny Wolff was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory, in Berlin, and from 1950 to 1964 at the Musikhochschule Hamburg.
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Henny Wolff studied with her mother, then at the conservatory of her hometown from 1906 to 1912, and in Berlin with Julius von Raatz-Brockmann.
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Henny Wolff made her debut in a concert at the Gurzenich in Cologne in 1912.
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Henny Wolff then performed both in Germany and internationally, especially with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.
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Henny Wolff often sang lieder by Hermann Reutter, with the composer as the accompanist.
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Henny Wolff was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory from 1914 to 1916.
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Henny Wolff moved to Berlin in 1922, where she worked as a voice pedagogue.
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Henny Wolff served as a voice instructor at the first Ferienkurse fur internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, and presented lieder by Gustav Mahler, Ernst Krenek and Reutter.
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Henny Wolff was a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Hamburg from 1950, when it was founded, to 1964, as a professor from 1952.
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Henny Wolff was awarded the Johannes Brahms Medal from the city of Hamburg in 1958, on the occasion of the composer's 125th anniversary.