Helen Buchholtz
Charlotte Helena Geiger-Buchholtz (24 November 1877 – 22 October 1953) was a Luxembourgish composer. She left around 136 compositions in manuscript, including 53 Lieder (settings of Luxembourgish, German, and French texts), nineteen choral works, fourteen piano sonatas, 38 character pieces and dances for piano, eight works for symphony orchestra, and six works for wind ensemble, sixteen of these published during her lifetime. The manuscript archive is held by Cid-femmes (Women's Information Center) in Luxembourg.
Also recorded as Charlotte Helena Geiger-Buchholtz
Helen Buchholtz
Jwh · Own picture Jwh · CC BY-SA 3.0 lu
- Name
- Helen Buchholtz
- Born
- 24 November 1877
- Birthplace
- Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Died
- 22 October 1953
- Place of death
- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- Luxembourg
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Charlotte Helena Geiger-Buchholtz (24 November 1877 – 22 October 1953) was a Luxembourgish composer. She left around 136 compositions in manuscript, including 53 Lieder (settings of Luxembourgish, German, and French texts), nineteen choral works, fourteen piano sonatas, 38 character pieces and dances for piano, eight works for symphony orchestra, and six works for wind ensemble, sixteen of these published during her lifetime. The manuscript archive is held by Cid-femmes (Women's Information Center) in Luxembourg.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Helen Buchholtz. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q2363383 · wikipedia · Helen Buchholtz
In this article
Biography
Biography
The center organized a three-year celebration, from 2009 to 2011, of Buchholtz's work that included concerts, recordings, and music editions. Born to the Esch-based Buchholtz-Ettinger family. Her father was the owner of a hardware store and the founder of the Buchholtz brewery. She started learning music from a very early age. After finishing primary school, she attended a girls' boarding school in Longwy. On 2 April 1914, she married the German doctor Bernhard Geiger, and the couple moved to Wiesbaden. After her husband died in 1921, she returned to Luxembourg and lived in Luxembourg City in the Boulevard Paul Eyschen. Her composing skills mainly were self-taught. However, she did cooperate with various musicians and writers over the years, such as Batty Weber and Willy Goergen. She corresponded with Gustave Kahnt. She would send him her compositions, which he would read through and return to her with his suggestions. In 2022, a portal was dedicated to Helen Buchholtz on the MuGi.lu website, which, in addition to a biography, also presents selected materials on the composer's life and work, such as music, scores, written documents, press articles, photos, personal items, correspondence, radio broadcasts, and much more.
Cimetière Saint-Joseph Esch-sur-Alzette
Zinneke
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Helen Buchholtz • Born — 24 November 1877 • Birthplace — Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg • Died — 22 October 1953 • Place of death — Luxembourg City, Luxembourg • Occupation — Composer
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1877
Helen Buchholtz was born on 24 November 1877.
1953
Helen Buchholtz died on 22 October 1953.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Esch-sur-Alzette.
Birth place
Luxembourg.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Helen Buchholtz”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2363383: Helen Buchholtz
General reference · Wikidata
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Biographie Helen Buchholtz CID Fraen an Gender. cid-fg.lu.
- 2.Cid-Info [newsletter of Cid-femmes] nos. 3-4/2010, 10-11.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,438 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Heitor dos PrazeresPerson
- Heitor PereiraPerson
- Heitor Villa-LobosPerson
- Heldeep RecordsOrganisation
- Helen DeutschPerson
- Helen DonathPerson
- Helen Eugenia HaganPerson
- Helen Francis HoodPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Helen Buchholtz?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.