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Prominent women performers in voice, piano and violin, born since 1840, 1918
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1played in concerts in London and toured America with Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Society.
3"Her playing shows careful training and no effort. She has mastered the violin classics from Beethoven to Tschaikowsky, and her small hands in no way hinder her power or technical skill."
5MAUD POWELL
7Maud Powell was born at Peru, Illinois. The foundation of her training was with Mr. Fickensher of Aurora and William Lewis of Chicago. She then went to Leipsic and Paris.
9Her debut, as a violinist, was made at the Philharmonic Society, in Berlin in 1885, when she played Bruch's Concerto in G minor. After touring England, she went to America when she played with the leading orchestras. She played under Thomas, Seidl, Damrosch, Gericke, Nikisch. She toured Germany and Austria with the New York Arion Society.
11In 1894, Miss Powell organized a string quartet. She afterwards toured Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Denmark, England and South Africa.
13In 1904, Miss Powell married H. Godfrey Turner.
15She has introduced to America:
17Saint Saens' Concerto in G minor.
18Arensky's Violin Concerto.
19Lalo's concerto in G major and works of American composers as well as Davorak's Violin Concerto.
21"She possesses a technique so fine, a style so broad and such excellent powers of expression and interpretation that she is considered, probably, the greatest woman violinist of the world. She
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