Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868 -1941), was an Austrian composer who studied with Guido Adler and Zemlinsky. Although she received a good musical education, in keeping with her comfortably middle-class background, she was not allowed to progress but was trained as a teacher. Her marriage in 1893 to the traffic specialist Otto Müller-Martini freed her to concentrate again on her music, studying piano, violin, theory and composition. It is a genuine tragedy that Müller-Hermann's music has been largely erased from history, one which can only be viewed through a feminist lens. Such a ruinous bowdlerisation is attributable to the insidious misogyny of nazism and a postwar cultural purism in which the "allies" should bear some responsibility.
