Emilie Frances Bauer
Emilie Frances Bauer as a middle-aged white woman, head and shoulders portrait in oval frame.
Emilie Frances Bauer, from a 1912 publication
Born(1865-03-05)March 5, 1865
Walla Walla, Washington
DiedMarch 9, 1926(1926-03-09) (aged 61)
New York City, US
Other namesFrancisco di Nogero (pseudonym)
Occupation(s)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.[3][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.[5] In February 2020, the Fort Walla Walla Museum held a program of music by Emilie Frances Bauer and Marion Bauer.[11]

References

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