Elsa Bienenfeld
Elsa Bienenfeld (born August 23, 1877, in Vienna; murdered May 26, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez, Maly Trostinez concentration camp near Minsk) was an Austrian music historian and music critic of Jewish origin. Childhood and adolescence Elsa Bienenfeld was born as the first of four children to her Jewish parents from Kraków, Krakow. The father was the court and court advocate Dr. Heinrich Bienenfeld (1849–1895), the mother, Viktoria née Schmelkes (1852–1918), came from a well-known rabbi family. Elsa Bienenfeld attended the schools in Vienna that admitted girls at the time and graduated as an external student at the Academic Gymnasium. She was accepted at the age of eight because of her musical talent at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and, at the age of seventeen, completed practical music studies with distinction . Study and work She first studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Vienna. Spurred on by a lecture by Guido Adler, ...
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