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Cornelia Rider-Possart
A middle-aged white woman, with short dark hair and a slight smile, wearing a loose-fitting print blouse
Cornelia Rider-Possart, from a 1923 publication
Born
Cornelia Rider

December 14, 1865
Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.
DiedJuly 1963 (age 97)
New York, New York, U.S.
OccupationPianist
RelativesErnst von Possart (father-in-law)

Cornelia Rider-Possart (December 14, 1865 – July 1963) was an American pianist.

Early life and education

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Rider was born in Dubuque, Iowa, the daughter of John Vincent Rider and Viola Gertrude Smead Rider.[1] She studied piano at the Sherwood School of Music in Chicago, and with Varette Stepanoff, a follower of Theodor Leschetizky, in Germany.[2]

Career

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Rider-Possart was a concert pianist in Germany in the early 1900s. She accompanied German singer Johanna Gadski in Chicago in 1904,[3] and performed with Ernst Kunwald in Berlin in 1908. "Madame Possart is one of the most legitimate, most musical, and most satisfactory women pianists for the public," reported Musical Courier about that event. "Her technic is clean, sure, and pearly, and her tone has a beautiful singing quality."[2] In 1911, she accompanied German tenor Hans Ellenson in his New York debut.[4]

Rider-Possart played at the Maine Music Festival in 1913,[5] and with the Calgary Symphony Orchestra in 1914.[6] She was in Los Angeles by summer 1915, for a performance at the Friday Morning Club.[7] She joined violinist Lili Petschnikoff at a series of three musicale events at Petschnikoff's Hollywood home in 1919.[8][9] She played at the Hollywood Bowl in 1921,[10] 1922,[11] and 1923.[12] She gave concerts at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1913,[13] 1922,[14] and 1924.[15] In 1922 she accompanied Marcella Craft at a performance in Los Angeles.[16] In 1923, she played with both the New York Philharmonic[17] and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[18] In 1926 and 1927, she played with the Guarneri String Quartet in Berlin.[19]

Rider-Possart also wrote music,[3] and recorded some player piano rolls for the Wilcox & White Company.[20][21] She was a social friend of many musicians in Los Angeles, including Leopold Stokowski.[22]

Personal life

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Rider married German theater censor Hermann Ludwig Possart, son of actor Ernst von Possart,[19] in 1902. He died in 1912. She lived in Los Angeles for much of her later life, though she also lived in Berlin in the late 1920s,[19] in Paris in the 1930s, and in New York City with her niece, artist Viola Burden Lange.[23] She died in 1963, at age 97, in New York City.[21][24]

References

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  1. ^ "Widow and Children Left Rider Estate". The Los Angeles Times. 1931-09-23. p. 35. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b "Berlin" Musical Courier 56(19)(May 6, 1908): 5.
  3. ^ a b Perkins, Walton (1904-11-27). "Song Recital the Perfection of Art". The Inter Ocean. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Farrar in 'Butterfly' at Brooklyn Academy". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1911-02-18. p. 26. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Maine Music Festival Brilliant and Largely Attended". Musical Courier. 67: 27. October 15, 1913.
  6. ^ "Calgary Symphony Orchestra (advertisement)". The Calgary Albertan. 1914-02-16. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Musical Program Given by Prominent Artists". Los Angeles Herald. July 11, 1915. p. 1 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  8. ^ Lindsey, Margie Manning. "Petschnikoff Series" Holly Leaves 8(November 8, 1919): 8.
  9. ^ Cover illustration, Holly Leaves 8(November 29, 1919): 1.
  10. ^ Smith, Catherine Parsons (2007-10-16). Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular. University of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-520-25139-7.
  11. ^ "Pianist at Bowl Tonight". The Los Angeles Times. 1922-08-03. p. 29. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Plays Piano in Last Week at Bowl". Los Angeles Evening Post-Record. 1923-08-25. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "A Calendar of Concerts" The New Music Review 13(145)(December 1913): 29.
  14. ^ "Music, Opera, and Concerts to Come" The New York Herald (March 5, 1922): 6. via Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
  15. ^ "Forthcoming Events". Musical News and Herald: 444. May 10, 1924.
  16. ^ "Miss Marcia Craft Arrives Home Today". Riverside Daily Press. April 1, 1922. p. 5 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  17. ^ "Mme. Rider-Possart, Soloist Tomorrow's Concert". The Pacific Coast Musician. 12: 7. November 10, 1923.
  18. ^ Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1924). Descriptive Programs: Symphony Concerts.
  19. ^ a b c "Society item". The Los Angeles Times. 1927-02-07. p. 26. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "The Artrio-Angelus (advertisement)". Yale Alumni Weekly. 26: 494. January 1917.
  21. ^ a b "Recordings by Cornelia Rider Possart". Naxos. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  22. ^ "Guests of Cornelia Rider-Possart" Holly Leaves 8(October 11, 1919): 15.
  23. ^ "Viola Burden Lange". Telegraph Herald. 2016-10-29. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  24. ^ "Iowa Deaths". Des Moines Tribune. 1963-07-11. p. 33. Retrieved 2024-06-18 – via Newspapers.com.
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