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Ottilie Sutro

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Ottilie Sutro with her sister Rose Laura Sutro

Ottilie Sutro (4 January 1872 – 12 September 1970) was an American concert pianist. Ottilie and her sister Rose Laura Sutro (1870 – 1957), popularly known as “Sutro sisters”[1] were “a well known duo piano team.”[2]

Biography

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Ottilie Sutro was born on 4 January 1872 in Baltimore.[3] Her father Ottu Sutro was a musician.[4] Sutro sisters studied piano from Heinrich Barth at the Berlin Musikhochschule.[5][1] In 1894 they successfully made their first appearance in London. On their return to America, they had their first concert with Anton Seidl at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.[6]

Sutro sisters, Hinson claims, were “an outstanding two-piano team.”[7]

Ottilie died on 12 September 1970 in Baltimore.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Fifield, Christopher (2016). Hans Richter: New Edition. Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-783-27021-7. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. ^ Tick, Judith (18 August 1997). Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-198-02299-2. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  3. ^ Fifield, Christopher (2005). Max Bruch: His Life and Works. Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer. p. 307. ISBN 978-1-843-83136-5. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  4. ^ Trovaioli, August P. (1 January 2008). William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter. New Orleans: Pelican Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-589-80509-5. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  5. ^ Singer, Sandra L. (2003). Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-speaking Universities, 1868-1915. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-313-32371-3. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  6. ^ a b Fifield 2005, p. 312.
  7. ^ Hinson, Maurice (2000). The Pianist's Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Paraphrases. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-253-21456-0. Retrieved 23 April 2022.