Background
Valerie Weigl (née Pick) was born in Vienna, Austria.
Valerie Weigl (née Pick) was born in Vienna, Austria.
She took piano lessons in childhood, and studied musicology at Vienna University. She studied piano under Richard Robert, composition under Karl Weigl and musicology under Guido Adler.
After receiving a masters degree at Columbia University, she also worked as a music therapist and became chief medical therapist at New York Medical College. She also taught at Roosevelt Cerebral Palsy School. Vally directed research projects at Mount Sinai Hospital"s psychiatric division and the Hebrew Home for the Aged, and in the 1950s published a number of articles in the field of musical therapy.
She died in New York City in 1982.
A biography of Vally Weigl entitled Give Them Music was published by Elena Fitzthum & Primavera Gruber (Edition Praesens, 2003, ).