Olga Samaroff

Olga Samaroff (August 8, 1880  May 17, 1948) was an American pianist, music critic, and teacher. Among her teachers was Charles-Valentin Alkan's son, Élie-Miriam Delaborde. Her second husband was the conductor Leopold Stokowski.

Olga Samaroff
Born
Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper

(1880-08-08)August 8, 1880
DiedMay 17, 1948(1948-05-17) (aged 67)
Occupations
  • Classical pianist
  • piano pedagogue
  • music critic
Spouses
Boris Loutzky
(divorced)
    (m. 1911; div. 1923)
    Children1
    External audio
    You may listen to Olga Samaroff performing Franz Liszt's Liebesträume No. 3 in A Flat Major in 1921 and her arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 in 1931 here on archive.org

    Samaroff was also a prominent member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

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