The Maud Powell Society

Maud Powell

Maud Powell with her husband and manager H. Godfrey Turner in their Gramercy Park home, NY

Photo by Bain News Service

TIME LINE

MAUD POWELL'S

LIFE AND CAREER

DATES	DESCRIPTION
1867	Maud Powell born, Peru, IL, to William Bramwell Powell and Minnie Bengelstraeter Paul Powell
1869	Maud's Uncle John Wesley Powell leads first scientific exploration of Grand Canyon
1874	Begins violin lessons with G. W. Fickensher & piano lessons, Aurora, IL Hears Camilla Urso perform at Coulter Opera House, Aurora
1876	First public appearances
1878-1881	Studies violin with William Lewis in Chicago and piano with Agnes Ingersoll
1881-1882	Studies with Henry Schradieck, Leipzig Conservatory, Germany
1882-1883	Studies with Charles Dancla, Paris Conservatory, France
1883-1884	Concert tours in England
1884-1885	Studies with Joseph Joachim, Berlin Hochschule, Germany
1885	American Debut Performance with Theodore Thomas, New York Philharmonic Bramwell Powell appointed superintendent of Washington, DC public schools
1887-1888	Tours Western U.S.
1889	Gives American premiere Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Walter Damrosch conducts the New York Symphony Orchestra
1890	Participates in first American Composers' Concert, Washington, DC
1891	Tour of U.S. with Patrick Gilmore and his band
1892	Tour of Germany and Austria with U.S. Arion Society Performs Dvorak Violin Concerto for Antonin Dvorak privately in New York
1893	Performs with Exposition Orchestra, Theodore Thomas, at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Delivers paper on Women and the Violin at Women's Musical Congress Performs with Amy Beach "Romance for violin and piano" composed by Beach and dedicated to Maud Powell
1893	Gives American premiere Dvorak Violin Concerto
1894-1895	Forms & tours with MP String Quartet, becomes first woman to head a professional quartet with male players
1898-1905	Concerts in Great Britain and the Continent
1899	Performs Tchaikovsky Concerto w/Hans Richter, Hallé Orchestra, Manchester, England
1900	Bramwell Powell retires, moves with Minnie Powell to Mt. Vernon, NY
1901	U.S. Concert Tour Performs Tchaikovsky Concerto with Philharmonic Society of London, England
1902	Performs Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto in B Minor with Saint-Saëns conducting in London. Performs Tchaikovsky and Beethoven concertos with Henry Wood, Queens Hall Orchestra, London
1903	European Tour with John Philip Sousa and Sousa Band
1904	Bramwell Powell dies Marriage to H. Godfrey Turner, establishes NY residence U.S. Tour Becomes first solo instrumentalist to record for Victor Company's Celebrity Artist Series (Red Seal Label)
1905	Tour of Great Britain with John Philip Sousa and Sousa Band Tour of South Africa with her own concert company
1906	Gives American premiere of Sibelius Violin Concerto, Wassily Safonoff conducting the New York Philharmonic.
1907	Performs Sibelius Concerto in Chicago and Boston Tour of Far West Recording of Drdla's Souvenir becomes worldwide best-seller
1907-1919	Annual Tours of North America
1908-1909	Maud Powell Trio (violin, cello, piano) tours U.S.
1909	Performs Beethoven Concerto with Gustav Mahler conducting NY Philharmonic
1912	World Premiere Coleridge-Taylor Concerto, Norfolk Festival, Arthur Mees, conductor
1914	Performs Sibelius Concerto with Jean Sibelius conducting, Norfolk Festival
1917-1919	Plays for soldiers in U.S. military camps (World War I)
1919	Casts ballot in NY State Election, exercising women's newly-won right to vote Collapses onstage in St. Louis with heart attack
1920	Dies of a heart attack while warming up for a concert in Uniontown, PA

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