Carmela Mackenna’s Enigmatic Lieder for Voice and Piano
Although Mackenna’s first work dates from 1909, it is her fourth composition, Lieder (1929), that is particularly significant. This is the first work to ensue from her relationship with German musicologist Hans Mersmann (1891-1971), with whom she had begun to study music composition three years earlier. Second, it also marks the beginning of a period …