Emilie Frances Bauer Explained

Emilie Frances Bauer
Other Names:Francisco di Nogero (pseudonym)
Birth Date:5 March 1865
Birth Place:Walla Walla, Washington
Death Place:New York City, US
Occupation:Writer, editor, composer, pianist, arts critic

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

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.[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. In February 2020, the Fort Walla Walla Museum held a program of music by Emilie Frances Bauer and Marion Bauer.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MUSEUM AFTER HOURS: THE BAUER SISTERS; FROM WALLA WALLA TO CAREERS IN NYC. Union-Bulletin. en. 2020-05-11.
  2. Web site: Notes for "Music of Marion Bauer". DRAM Online. 2020-05-12.
  3. Book: Pickett, Susan E.. Marion and Emilie Frances Bauer: From the Wild West to American Musical Modernism. 2014-12-29. Lulu Publishing Services . 978-1-4834-2292-3. en.
  4. Web site: An American Scriabin?. Eskin. Virginia. 2020-04-22. The Boston Musical Intelligencer. en-US. 2020-05-11.
  5. News: 1926-03-21. Untitled item. 39. Dayton Daily News. 2020-05-12. Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1912-09-18. Emilie Frances Bauer in Lecture on Music. 6. The San Francisco Call. 2020-05-12. Newspapers.com.
  7. Book: Nogero. Francisco di. My Love is a Muleteer: Song. Bauer. Emilie Frances. 1917. A. P. Schmidt. en.
  8. Web site: Our flag in France. Bauer. Emilie Frances. 1917. Historic Sheet Music Collection, Oregon Digital. 2020-05-12.
  9. July 26, 1917. Song Royalties for the Wounded. The Musical Leader. 34. 84. HathiTrust.
  10. News: 1918-04-27. Musicale at the Music School Settlement. 11. Brooklyn Life. 2020-05-12. Newspapers.com.
  11. Web site: Museum program tunes into Bauer sisters. Malgesini. Tammy. February 22, 2020. East Oregonian. en. 2020-05-11.