Mimi Wagensonner

Maria Wagensonner-Schipper (13 March 1897 – 21 August 1970), best known as "Mimi Wagensonner," was an Austrian composer and poet.

[1] Wagensonner was born in Aussig an der Elbe in what is now the Czech Republic to Franz Schipper and Maria Stangl Schipper.

[2] Wagensonner studied piano with A. Subak and Mannheimer; harmony with Richard Stohr;[3] and composition with Karl Weigl at the New Vienna Conservatory.

She also studied and taught[4] at the Music Academy in Vienna (today known as the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).

[2] Wagensonner set 13 poems by Josef Weinheber to music.