Vally Weigl

Biography

Vally [Valerie] Weigl [née Pick] (1894–1982), Viennese musician, who studied piano (Richard Robert), composition (Karl Weigl), and musicology (Guido Adler, at Vienna University), after which she worked as Robert’s assistant, and with Karl Weigl at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of the University. She married Karl in 1921, and emigrated with him to New York in 1938, where she worked as a teacher and composer, and, after taking a masters degree at Columbia University, as a music therapist, becoming chief music therapist at New York Medical College, and authoring many journal articles in the field. Comprehensive works list at Karl Weigl Foundation.

  • choral accompanied
  • multiples of the same instrument(s)
  • ACE Publications

    22 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Vally Weigl ALONG THE WAY (choral suite)
    Vally Weigl APRIL
    women's solo voices, flute(or violin) and piano
    Vally Weigl BALLAD OF MY FATHER, THE SATB chor, soli, pf
    Vally Weigl BLESS THE FOUR CORNERS OF THIS HOUSE satb,pf
    Vally Weigl CHORUSES OF CONCERN SATB or unison chorus, and guitar
    Vally Weigl Christmas Carmen women's chorus and piano
    Vally Weigl DRUMS OF WAR satb, guitar
    Vally Weigl FOUR CHORAL SONGS ON DEATH AND MAN mixed chorus, piano, snare drum, timpani ad lib
    Vally Weigl FOUR SEASONS, THE: Cantata Children's choir SSA, pf
    Vally Weigl FOUR SONGS
    child or women's voices as chorus or as soli, pf
    Vally Weigl HEAR YE, ALL YE PEOPLES mix chor(and/orsolo qrt)pf
    Vally Weigl LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE satb,4 soli, pf
    Vally Weigl LITTLE JESUS CAME TO TOWN - a Christmas Folksong SSA women's choir + piano
    Vally Weigl ODE TO BEAUTY satb, Sop solo, hn, pf (or strings)
    Vally Weigl OH, WIND, BLOW SOFTLY 2pt women's or child chorus(or 2 solo voices),rec(or fl),pf
    Vally Weigl OLD TIME DIVERTIMENTO for Three French Horns 3 hn
    Vally Weigl ON CHRISTMAS EVE Mixed chorus or voices and piano
    Vally Weigl PSALM 130 chorus, T solo, pf
    Vally Weigl SAINT FRANCIS women's chorus, flute (or violin) and piano
    Vally Weigl SHEPHERDESS MOON SSA, pf
    Vally Weigl TE DEUM satb,pf
    Vally Weigl THIS IS THE DAY OF LIGHT SATB, piano or organ

    Additional Works