Music Amalie studied music with
Joseph Schuster, Vincenzo Rastrelli, Johann Miksch,
Franz Schubert, and
Carl Maria von Weber. She began writing music in 1811 and composed numerous operas, popular among the Dresden elite. She published her musical works under the pseudonym A. Serena. Her most popular compositions were her comedic operas. She portrayed her characters with innovation and color.
Dramatics In 1829/30, she published two dramas under the name of Amalie Heiter. Among her subsequent dramatic works, which were noted for a love of humanity and virtue, her comedies
Der Onkel ("The Uncle") and
Die Fürstenbraut ("The Prince's bride") became very popular. The latter was performed in
Paris under the title
Une femme charmante ("A charming woman", 1840). Some of her other plays were also adapted to the French stage. A complete edition of her dramatic works was published in Dresden, for the benefit of the women's association, under the title of
Originalbeiträge zur deutschen Schaubühne ("Original contributions to the German stage", 6 vols., 1837–42). A third edition of the first volume appeared in 1858, and a French version of it (
Comédies) at Paris in 1841. Six of her dramas were translated into English by
Anna Jameson (London, 1846), and six others were translated anonymously (1848). ==Musical works==