Olga Samaroff

Olga Samaroff (born Aug. 8, 1882, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.—died May 17, 1948, New York, N.Y.) was an American pianist who also found a successful and varied career as a music educator. At age 14, Olga Hickenlooper, who had taken piano lessons from her mother and her grandmother (the latter a concert pianist of some note), went to Paris to continue her studies. A year later she became the first woman to win a scholarship...