salms, motets, and other sacred works. Hermine
Amersfoodt-Dyck won fame by producing the cantata, "Gottes
Allgegenwart."

In the operatic field, Josepha Mueller-Gallenhofer, born at Vienna in
1770, seems the pioneer. Besides her opera, "Der Heimliche Bund," she
published a string quartette and many pieces for the harp, upon which
she was an excellent performer. Caroline Wiseneder, of Brunswick,
deserves notice for her aid to the blind, for whom she started a
successful music school. Her two operas and several melodramas were
published after her death. Auguste Goetze, born at Weimar in 1840, grew
up to success as a singer of German _Lieder_, and founded an opera
school at Dresden. Of her operas, "Susanna Monfort," "Magdalena," and
"Eine Heimfahrt," have been frequently performed. Elise Schmezer has
composed the opera "Otto der Schuetz," besides a number of songs. Thekla
Griebel has had her opera, "Schoen Karen," produced twice within recent
years. Elise Bachmann published a melodrama, "Die Macht der Musik," also
some songs and piano pieces in popular vein. Among less important works,
the Countess of Ahlefeldt issued the ballet, "Telemach und Calypso," in
1794. Julie von Pfeilschifter, born in 1840, is author of the grand
ballet, "Voeglein's Morgengruss" and the dramatic _scena_, "Agneta,"
which have pleased Wiesbaden audiences; also a number of piano
selections and songs.

Among those who have written for the violin, Francesca Lebrun, one of
the earliest, was born at Mannheim in 1756. A remarkably great singer
and accomplished pianist, she won laurels in composition by her
musicianly piano trios and her sonatas with violin accompaniment.
Pauline Fichtner, born in 1847, became one of Liszt's pupils, and won
many public triumphs as a pianist. Her works, mostly piano pieces and
songs, contain two fantasies for violin and piano. Marie Hendrich-Merta,
five years younger, is the author of an excellent piano trio, besides
the usual song and piano selections. Mary Clement has written a violin
sonata and shorter pieces that have won encomiums from no less a man
than Max Bruch. Henrietta Heidenreich has composed a number of violin
pieces, and Mathilde Heim-Brehm has done the same. The Countess
Stephanie Vrabely Wurmbrand wrote a violin sonata, also several piano
works and incidental music to "Die Schoene Melusine."

In the field of piano music, Emilie Belleville-Oury is worthy of
mention. Born at Munich in 1808, she made that c