Johanna Beyer has been played on NTS in shows including Lavender Kite Audio Research Hour w/ Barnaby Bennett, featured first on 15 June 2020. Songs played include Music Of The Spheres [1938].

Johanna Beyer was born in Leipzig, Germany, but very little is known about her life prior to her move to the United States in 1923/4. She sang for three years at the Leipziger Singakademie and graduated from the Deutscher Konservatorien and Musikseminare, having studied piano, harmony, theory, counterpoint, singing, and dancing. Colleagues in New York recalled that her pianism and musicianship were excellent and that her musical training seemed traditional and solid. She…