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Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist.
Bloomfeld married the attorney
Piano Rolls
The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler Papers
at The Newberry
Jewish Encyclopedia
Article on Fannie Blumenfeld
North American Theatre Online
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Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist.
Biography
Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, to Jewish parents. She emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 4 in 1867. The family settled in Chicago, Illinois, where they later changed their name to Bloomfield. She was the sister ofMaurice Bloomfield
Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D. (February 23, 1855 – June 12, 1928) was an Austrian-born American philologist and Sanskrit scholar.
Biography
He was born Maurice Blumenfeld in Bielitz ( pl, Bielsko), in what was at that time Austrian Sil ...
and the aunt of Leonard Bloomfield.
At the age of six, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the United States, heard her play and advised that she became a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. She made her debut at the age of 11 in February 1875. In 1878, she returned to Austria to study in Vienna, under Leschetizky. While in Austria, she changed her name from Blumenfeld to Bloomfield. She returned to Chicago in 1883.
Bloomfield performed in concert in Chicago in April 1884. In January 1885, she debuted in New York City. Around the turn of the century, she made piano rolls of various piano compositions, Chopin's Waltz No. 11 in G minor being among them.Gerhard Dangel and Hans-W. Schmitz: '' Welte-Mignon Reproductions. Complete Library Of European Recordings For The Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano 1905-1932''. Stuttgart 2006. . S. 420 In 1888, she was honorably initiated into musical women's fraternity Alpha Chi Omega.
Personal life
Bloomfeld married the attorney Sigmund Zeisler
Sigmund Zeisler (1860-1931) was a German-Jewish U.S. attorney born in Austria and known for his defense of radicals in Chicago in the 1880s. His wife was the famed concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
Childhood, marriage and legal educa ...
in 1885 and had three sons: Leonard Bloomfield Zeisler, Paul Bloomfield Zeisler, and Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler (married to Claire Zeisler). In 1888, she returned to Vienna to study with Leschetizky. She also began to tour in Europe and the United States, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her last performance was in February 1925 in Chicago. She played the Beethoven Andante Favori and concertos by Chopin and Schumann.
Zeisler died in Chicago, Illinois on August 20, 1927.
Discography and interviews
* Caswell Collection, Vol. 3: Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler ASIN: B00005B7H6 * The Genesis Recordings of Legendary Pianists, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00000J89K * Great pianists on piano playing fromJames Francis Cooke
James Francis Cooke (November 14, 1875, Bay City, Michigan – March 3, 1960, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) spent his life involved with music.''New York Times'' obituary, March 5, 1960, ''Dr. James Cook, 84, Ex-Editor of Etude'' He was a pianist, ...
, (published in 1917 republished by Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
1999)
References
*Further reading
* Dilworth, Hiram P. ''Ode on the pure art and the great achievement and the enduring name of Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler'' (1928), ASIN: B00088ZRT8 * ''Great pianists on piano playing'',James Francis Cooke
James Francis Cooke (November 14, 1875, Bay City, Michigan – March 3, 1960, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) spent his life involved with music.''New York Times'' obituary, March 5, 1960, ''Dr. James Cook, 84, Ex-Editor of Etude'' He was a pianist, ...
( Dover Publications, )
External links
Piano Rolls
The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler Papers
at The Newberry
Jewish Encyclopedia
Article on Fannie Blumenfeld
North American Theatre Online
Alexander Street) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bloomfieldzeisler, Fannie 1863 births 1927 deaths 19th-century classical pianists 19th-century American pianists 19th-century American women pianists Austrian classical pianists Austrian Jews Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States American classical pianists American women classical pianists American people of Austrian-Jewish descent Jewish classical pianists Jewish American classical musicians Musicians from Chicago People from Austrian Silesia People from Bielsko Pupils of Bernhard Ziehn