Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield

Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield

▪ American pianist
née Fannie  Blumenfeld  
born July 16, 1863, Bielitz, Silesia, Austrian Empire [now in Poland]
died Aug. 20, 1927, Chicago, Ill., U.S.

      Austrian-born American pianist noted for her formidable technique and extensive repertoire.

      Fannie Blumenfeld immigrated with her family to the United States in 1867. Showing considerable talent as a pianist, she made her public debut in February 1875. Encouraged by the Russian pianist Annette Essipoff (Anna Esipova (Esipova, Anna)), Blumenfeld in 1878 traveled to Vienna, where she studied for several years with Theodor Leschetizky (Leschetizky, Theodor). Having by the end of that time anglicized her name to Bloomfield, she returned to Chicago in 1883.

      Bloomfield gave her first full concert in Chicago in April 1884 and in January 1885 made her New York City debut. From 1884 she was on the faculty of the School of Lyric and Dramatic Art in Chicago, and in 1885 she married Sigmund Zeisler. She again studied with Leschetizky in Vienna (1888–89), and her first European tour took place in 1893; illness forced her to return home, but Zeisler toured Germany and Austria again in the fall of 1894. Acknowledged as one of the foremost concert pianists in the world, she combined flawless technique with a fiery and powerful expressiveness that enabled her to render the classical and Romantic masterworks with entire authority.

      She gave concerts in England (1898) and throughout Europe (1902, 1911–12, and 1914), with one exception also making annual tours of the United States. During these American tours, Zeisler appeared annually with Theodore Thomas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891–1909). Her final public performance took place in February 1925 in Chicago, when she marked 50 years on the concert stage by playing the Beethoven Andante favori with which she had opened her career in 1875 and concertos by Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann.

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