Vally Weigl [SEP] date of death
Vally Weigl
Vally Weigl (11 September 1894 – 25 December 1982) was an Austrian-American composer and music therapist.
Biography.
Valerie "Vally" Weigl (née Pick) was born in Vienna. She was the first daughter of lawyer Josef Pick (1849, Náchod1926, Vienna) and his wife Charlotte "Lotte (Rubinstein)" Pick (1871, Galați1939, Vienna). Her younger sister was the Austrian economist, women's rights activist, journalist and politician Käthe Leichter.
Her maternal lines
. 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. She died in New York City in 1982.
A biography of Vally Weigl entitled "Give Them Music" was published by Elena Fitzthum & Primavera Gruber (Edition Praesens, 2003, ).
Works.
Vally Weigl composed a large number of works for orchestra and solo instruments.