Emilie Frances Bauer

Emilie Frances Bauer (pseudonym: Francisco di Nogero; March 5, 1865 – March 9, 1926) was an American music critic, editor, composer, and pianist.

Emilie Frances Bauer
Emilie Frances Bauer as a middle-aged white woman, head and shoulders portrait in oval frame.
Emilie Frances Bauer, from a 1912 publication
Born(1865-03-05)March 5, 1865
Walla Walla, Washington
DiedMarch 9, 1926(1926-03-09) (aged 61)
New York City, US
Other namesFrancisco di Nogero (pseudonym)
Occupation(s)Writer, editor, composer, pianist, arts critic

Early life

Emilie Frances Bauer was born in Walla Walla, Washington, the daughter of Jacques Bauer (1834-1890) and Julia Heyman Bauer. She may have been the first Jewish child ever born in Walla Walla.[1] Both parents were immigrants from Alsace; her father was a shopkeeper and her mother a teacher.[2] She studied music with her father, with Miguel Espinosa in San Francisco, and at the Paris Conservatoire. She was the older sister and first piano teacher of composer Marion Bauer.[3][4]

Career

Bauer taught piano in Walla Walla and Portland, Oregon. She was a music critic for Portland Oregonian, editor for the Musical Courier, music teacher in Boston (1896), editor for The Musical Leader (1900–1926), editor of a women's page in The Etude (1902–1903), critic for the New York Evening Mail (1906-1912), weekly contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, Portland Oregonian and the Concertgoer.[3][5] While she was living in San Francisco in 1912, she gave a lecture series on music.[6]

Bauer sometimes wrote and composed music under the masculine pen-name "Francisco di Nogero". Among her known compositions were the songs "My Love is a Muleteer" (1917)[7] and "Our Flag in France" (1917).[8] For the latter song, she donated the royalties to the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris.[9] In 1918, she and her sister were guests of honor at a musicale hosted by the Brooklyn Music School Settlement.[10]

Personal life

Emilie Frances Bauer died in 1926, aged 61 years, in New York City.[5] In February 2020, the Fort Walla Walla Museum held a program of music by Emilie Frances Bauer and Marion Bauer.[11]

References
  1. "MUSEUM AFTER HOURS: THE BAUER SISTERS; FROM WALLA WALLA TO CAREERS IN NYC". Union-Bulletin. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  2. "Notes for "Music of Marion Bauer"". DRAM Online. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  3. Pickett, Susan E. (December 29, 2014). Marion and Emilie Frances Bauer: From the Wild West to American Musical Modernism. ISBN 978-1-4834-2292-3.
  4. Eskin, Virginia (April 22, 2020). "An American Scriabin?". The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  5. "Untitled item". Dayton Daily News. March 21, 1926. p. 39. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Emilie Frances Bauer in Lecture on Music". The San Francisco Call. September 18, 1912. p. 6. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Nogero, Francisco di; Bauer, Emilie Frances (1917). My Love is a Muleteer: Song. A. P. Schmidt.
  8. Bauer, Emilie Frances (1917). "Our flag in France". Historic Sheet Music Collection, Oregon Digital. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  9. "Song Royalties for the Wounded". The Musical Leader. 34: 84. July 26, 1917 – via HathiTrust.
  10. "Musicale at the Music School Settlement". Brooklyn Life. April 27, 1918. p. 11. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Malgesini, Tammy (February 22, 2020). "Museum program tunes into Bauer sisters". East Oregonian. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
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