 She also founded the "Vecchi Singers" with whom she conducted the first American performance of Orazio Vecchi's "L'Amfiparnaso" in 1933.Margarete Dessoff was committed to the performance of rarely heard early music as well as unknown works of young composers.Her artistically planned programs encouraged contemporary composers such as Hans Gál, Erwin Lendvai, Hugo Herrmann, Marion Bauer, Lazare Saminsky and others to write new music for choirs.