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119:, Queensland, Australia, the oldest daughter of William Stanley Hall (c.1845 – 19 June 1927), a journalist, and his wife Mary Ann, née Sadgrove, a piano teacher. The name "Stanley" was carried in recognition of his mother's family. She was a sister of Rev. Jacob Stanley, president of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference, and Sarah Chalkey Stanley, who married 180:
She spent many years in South Africa, where she performed professionally on the piano well into her senior years. In 1958 (at age 80), she made a well-received tour of South Africa with Dutch violinist Herman Salomon, who had previously gained his reputation as leader of The Amsterdam string Quartet.
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Hall married South African scientist Dr. Frederick Otto Stohr, originally Stöhr (1871–1946), in London on 22 November 1913. He had been conducting
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in Parramatta, New South Wales, and won a prize for her piano performance. In 1888, she was enrolled at the
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YouTube 'Chabrier's Valse Romantique No. 3 played by Elsie Hall & Leslie Heward'
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in Germany. In 1890, she was awarded a pianoforte scholarship at the
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in Berlin. Her patron there was Marie Benecke, eldest daughter of
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State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart alumni
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Burgis, Peter (1983). "Elsie Maude Stanley Hall (1877–1976)".
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She took up the piano at the age of three, and was a
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Elsie Hall and Dutch violinist Herman Salomon (1958)
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Toowoomba
Qld
Wynberg
South Africa
Toowoomba
George Pearce Baldwin
child prodigy
Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition
Stuttgart Conservatory
Royal College of Music
John Farmer
Royal High School for Music
Felix Mendelssohn
ornithological
Zambia
Fiji Times
Sydney Morning Herald
BBC Radio
Desert Island Discs
Wynberg
Hout Bay
The Good Die Young






Australian Dictionary of Biography

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