Ruth Schonthal

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Ruth Schonthal was born in Hamburg of Viennese parents. At the age of five she began composing and became the youngest student ever accepted at the Stern'sches Konservatorium in Berlin . In 1935, Schonthal and her family were forced to leave Nazi Germany on account of her Jewish heritage. She later studied at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in Stockholm, where at the age of fourteen, she had her first Sonatina published. At the RAM she studied composition with Ingemar Liljefors and piano with Olaf Wibergh. Then, she was once again forced to flee as a result of the rising political tension, and eventually traveled to a variety of places: first the USSR, then Japan, and then Mexico City, where at the age of 19 she gave a very widely acclaimed piano performance of her own compositions, including her First Piano Concerto, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Among the audience members was the noted American composer Paul Hindemith, obtained a scholarship for her to study with him at Yale in 1946. She was one of the only students to graduate from the Conservatory with honors. She married the painter Paul Seckel in 1950 and settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [1] Ms. Schonthal has received commissions for chamber music, operas, symphonic compositions, as well as works for organ and piano. In 1994 she received the International Heidelberger Kunstlerinnen Preis and was honored with an exhibition of her life and works at the Museum in Heidelberg. She is also the recipient of many prize

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Jewish String Quartets

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Women Composers in Germany

Schonthal, R.: Piano Music

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Meditations and Overtones

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The Canticles of Hieronymus

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Sonatina

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SCHONTHAL, R.: Piano Music (Steigerwalt)

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Piano Recital: Mills, Margaret - FEIGIN, J. / SCHONTHAL, R. / BEACH, A. / COATES, G. (Meditations and Overtones)

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Schonthal: Fragments From A Woman's Diary - In Homage Of...

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Quiet Strength

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Piano Recital: Mills, Margaret - Schontal, R. / Liebermann, L.

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