Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (actually Blumenfeld , born July 16, 1863 in Bielitz , Austrian Silesia , † August 20, 1927 in Chicago ) was an Austrian-American pianist .
Life
In 1867 her family emigrated to the United States, where they settled in Chicago. The family name was changed from Blumenfeld to Bloomfield in 1870. Since about 1871 she was taught by Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago. In 1877 Annetta Jessipowa , who was on tour through the USA, heard the child play and recommended that she be sent to Theodor Leschetizky as a student . In 1878 she returned to Austria to study with Leschetizky. During her stay in Austria she changed her traditional name to Bloomfield . In 1883 she returned to Chicago. She made her debut in Chicago in 1884 and in New York in 1885. In 1885 she married the lawyer Sigmund Zeisler (1860–1931), who was also born in Bielitz . In 1888 she returned to Leschetizky in Vienna for further training.
On October 19, 1893, she made her debut in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker . From then on she made numerous successful tours through Europe and North America. On August 6, 1908, she was invited to record 12 pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproduction piano . Due to the sales success, she recorded another 15 titles in 1912.
She was considered one of the best pianists of her time. She gave her last concert in Chicago in February 1925.
The philologist Maurice Bloomfield (1855–1928) was her brother, the linguist Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949) her nephew
literature
- Beth Abelson Macleod, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler: The Life and Times of a Piano Virtuoso , Urbana: University of Illinois, 2015, ISBN 978-0252-03934-8 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Media from and about Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Dangel and Hans-W. Schmitz: Welte-Mignon -Reproduktionen / Welte-Mignon Reproductions. Complete catalog of recordings for the Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905–1932 / Complete Library Of Recordings For The Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905–1932 . Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 3-00-017110-X . P. 420
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bloomfield Zeisler, Fannie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zeisler, Fannie; Blumenfeld, Fannie; Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielsko-Biała |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1927 |
| Place of death | Chicago |