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Note: wikipedia - Vally Weigl (11 September 1894 – 25 December 1982) was an Austrian-American composer and music therapist. Valerie Weigl (nee Pick) was born in Vienna, Austria. She took piano lessons in childhood, and studied musicology at Vienna University. She studied piano under Richard Robert, composition under Karl Weigl and musicology under Guido Adler. Vally married Karl Weigl in 1921, and after the National Socialists took power in in Austria in 1938, the couple emigrated with their son to the U.S. with assistance from the Quaker Society of Friends. In New York, Weigl worked as a music teacher and composer, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts allowed her to compose and record Natures Moods, New England Suite, and four song cycles. After receiving a masters degree at Columbia University, she also worked as a music therapist and became chief medical therapist at New York Medical College.[1] She also taught at Roosevelt Cerebral Palsy School. Vally directed research projects at Mount Sinai Hospital's psychiatric division and the Hebrew Home for the Aged, and in the 1950s published a number of articles in the field of musical therapy.[2] She died in New York City in 1982.. OR wikipedia - Karl Ignaz Weigl (2 February 1881 - 11 August 1949) was an Austrian composer. He was born in Vienna, being the son of a bank official who was also a keen amateur musician. Alexander Zemlinsky took him as a private pupil in 1896. Weigl went to school at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium and graduated from there in 1899. After that, he continued his studies at the Vienna Music Academy, where he became a composition pupil of Robert Fuchs, and also enrolled at the University of Vienna, studying musicology under Guido Adler, having Anton Webern as a classmate. His only opera, Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, premiered in Vienna in 1932...
Note: jwa.org/encyclopedia - Käthe Leichter was undoubtedly the foremost socialist feminist in “Red Vienna” during the interwar years. A Social Democratic politician, labor organizer and author, with a doctorate in political economy, she directed women’s affairs for the Viennese Chamber of Workers (Arbeiterkammer). In May 1938, before she had a chance to escape from Austria, Käthe Leichter was arrested by the Gestapo for illegal socialist activities; she was never released from imprisonment. Marianne Katharina Pick was the younger daughter of Josef Pick, a lawyer from a wealthy family of Jewish textile manufacturers from Bohemia, and his beautiful and cultured wife, the former Lotte Rubinstein, who came from an affluent Jewish banking family in Romania. Käthe, as she was always known, was born in Vienna on August 20, 1895, less than a year after her sister Vally. As children, the two girls were treated like twins; they were the same size and were always dressed alike... OR dasrotewien.at - Otto Leichter studied law at the University of Vienna and was a founding member of the Association of Socialist Students and Academics (Socialist Student Association of Austria since 1925). From 1919 to 1934 was the husband Käthe Leichter contributor to the magazine, the struggle from 1925 to 1934 and editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, and, as such, a close associate of Otto Bauer. 1934 Otto Leichter withdrew the threat of arrest by flight from Brno to Zurich, but soon returned back to Austria, where he especially for short time as chairman of the Revolutionary Socialists But as a leading official of the illegal "free trade unions in Austria" and as editor of the newspaper "The Union" was active. 1935 briefly detained, Light looked to 1938 as editor of the newspaper illegal functionary "Trade union information" as well as the internal organ "The debate"...
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Note: Ernst and his son Edgar are also buried in Vienna with Moses (see Mazliach family) (abt 1827 res. #68 Praterstr., Vienna-1020 - bur. 6/18/1895 Vienna) türkischer grosshändler, privatier (gew. kaufmann) *genteam,*genteam-grave, NFP *geni & Ernestine (Anna, Ester /Esther) Bully /Buly, Bulli, Bulli (abt 1830 - 6/9/1917 Vienna) NFP *geni and son "?Jakob (Jacob) Israel Mazliach (2/25/1864 res. #11 Weissgärberstr., Vienna-1030 - 1/19/1942 #2 Senseng., Vienna-1090) privat *genteam, *genteam, genteam-grave"
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