Ella Scoble Opperman

Ella Scoble Opperman (born October 27, 1873 in Cincinnati / Ohio ; † March 11, 1969 in Tallahassee / Florida ) was an American music teacher , organist and pianist .

Opperman had piano lessons from the age of five and performed at the Opera House in Seymour, Indiana, when he was eight. She studied at Wesleyan College in Cincinnati and at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and took private piano lessons with Ernest Jedliczka in Berlin in 1900/01 . In Paris she studied piano with Moritz Moszkowski and organ with Alexandre Guilmant from 1907 to 1909 . After her return to the USA she attended master classes with Leopold Godowsky , Rudolph Ganz , Isador Phillip and Guy Maier and studied organ with Harold Gleason at the Eastman School of Music .

She taught at Birmingham Seminary , Knickerbocker Hall in Indianapolis and Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia before becoming a teacher at the Florida State College for Women music school in 1911 . From 1920 until her retirement in 1944 she was dean of the music school, which in 1930 was accepted into the National Association of Schools of Music .

In 1943 the Cincinnati Conservatory awarded her an honorary doctorate in education. To mark her golden service anniversary in 1961, the Woman's Glee Club at Florida State University gave her a concert.

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SURNAME	Opperman, Ella Scoble
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American music teacher, organist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1969
Place of death	Tallahassee