Irma Wolpe


Irma Wolpe was a Romanian-born composer, born Irma Schoenberg in Bucharest in 1902. She studied the piano and Dalcroze eurhythmics in Berlin. She was a close friend of the German classical music composer Stefan Wolpe. In 1934, she immigrated to Palestine with Wolpe and they were married in Jerusalem. She frequently gave concerts actively and taught at the Palestine Conservatoire.