with frequent performance, while her suite
is another example of striking beauty. Her piano works, which include
etudes, fantasies, sketches, and humoreskes, are full of the same
characteristic charm, while her songs display exquisite poetic feeling.

Bohemia and Hungary, though politically parts of the Germanic nations,
may well be classed as separate from them in matters of art. Their
peoples are different racially, and their national music, especially in
the latter case, has a distinctive character of its own. Smetana and
Dvorak are the most famous types of the German dependency, while the
music of the Austrian province partakes of the wild gipsy flavour that
is so well reflected in some of Schubert's works.

One of the earliest Bohemian women composers was Veronica Cianchettini.
She came of a musical family, for she was one of the sisters of Dussek,
whose wife and daughter have already been mentioned in connection with
England's composers. Like her brother, she became a pianist of high
rank, and settled in London. Her works include a number of piano
concertos, sonatas, and other lesser pieces.

Elise Barth was a famous Bohemian pianist of the last century. She, too,
published many piano compositions. Another celebrated performer was
Auguste Auspitz, one of Smetana's best pupils. She produced many songs
and piano works, and would have done greater work but for her death at
the age of thirty-five. Mathilde Ringelsberg devoted herself to lighter
compositions, and wrote many popular dances. Wilhelmine Clausz, besides
being one of the best women pianists of to-day, has composed a few
pieces for her instrument, and has done much excellent editing and
arranging. Anna Schimon, who studied with Halevy, won renown as a singer
and teacher. She has published many vocal works, and has two operas in
manuscript. Rosa Bleitner, a teacher at the Prague Conservatory, has
published several sets of songs, also a very effective funeral march.

Among Hungarian composers, Ludmilla Gizycka, now living at Vienna, has
published a number of successful songs and piano pieces, among them an
interesting set of Polish melodies. Marie de Kohary, another
pianist-composer, has written a set of sonatas and various other piano
works. Mme. D'Hovorst has published a sonata for two pianos and various
other works. Henrietta Vorwerk has received much praise for her piano
pieces and songs, while Anna Zichy Stubenberg is another prolific worker
in the sam