Female Mourners

 

Dear friends of piano music,

During the last few weeks, before thank God the playgrounds were opened again, my children and I were sometimes at the mountain cemetery. There, we visited the "stone women", as my daughter called them, - statues on the graves, all of which represent young female mourners. Grief was female in the 19th century (and beyond), as was caring for sick relatives. If there was still time and power, you could dedicate it to the composition, as Josephine Lang did.

In addition to her songs, only three piano pieces have survived from her, which I deeply regret. Last but not least, caring for her husband, who suffered from and died of lung disease, and the death of three of her six children took away much of her life energy. Let us be grateful for at least three piano pieces.

Many Greetings! Kerstin