Lillian Shattuck (1857–1940) was an early American violinist. A student of

Julius Eichberg Julius Eichberg (13 June 1824 – 19 January 1893) was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Julius Eichberg was born in Düsseldorf, Germany to a Jewish family. His first mus ...

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, in the late 1880s she established a string quartet consisting only of women, the first of its kind in the United States. The other members of the quartet were Lillian Chandler, violin, Leslie Launder, cello and Abbie Shepardson, viola. They performed together in chamber concerts in

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. One was held in November 1877 in Boston's Union Hall. It included Eichberg's ''Concertante for Four Violins'' as well as other pieces by

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. Shattuck was among those who travelled with Eichberg and members of the quartet to study in

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was so surprised to see a quartet consisting only of women that he allowed all four to attend the Conservatory and study under him for a whole year. In the 1890s, the quartet performed in the southern states and Canada. Shattuck later returned to Boston where she established a music school. A scrapbook belonging to Shattuck with over 200 photographs of her violin students is to be found in the

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