WINKEL, Therese Emilie Henriette

Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel (1784–1867) was a German artist, author, composer, and harpist. She also published under the pseudonyms Comala and Theorosa. She was employed as a temporary harpist in the Dresden Opera orchestra once a year, but otherwise earned her living by copying well-known paintings from the Dresden art gallery.

She also gave language classes and was a harp teacher for the Saxon princesses. Her home became a meeting place for writers and the Dresden Song Circle. Winkel socialized with artists Gerhard von Kügelgen and Louise Seidler and writers Theodor Hell and Otto Heinrich von Loeben.

Her most notable work was 'Three sonatas for harp and violin'.