The Good Die Young The Autobiography of Elsie Hall
The Good Die Young The Autobiography of Elsie Hall
Hardcover
Publisher: Constantia, 1969 First Edition
Used - Very Good. The jacket is slightly rubbed. Protected with a Cellophane cover.
Elsie Maude Stanley Hall (22 June 1877 – 27 June 1976), commonly referred to as Elsie Stanley Hall, was a prominent Australian-born South African classical pianist.
Hall was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the oldest daughter of William Stanley Hall (c.1845 – 19 June 1927), a journalist, and his wife Mary Ann, née Sadgrove, a piano teacher.
She took up the piano at the age of three, and was a child prodigy. In 1883 she attended the Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition in Parramatta, New South Wales, and won a prize for her piano performance. In 1888 she was enrolled at the Stuttgart Conservatory in Germany. In 1890 she was awarded a pianoforte scholarship at the Royal College of Music, but declined and instead studied at Harrow Music School under John Farmer, and then at the Royal High School for Music in Berlin
Hall married South African scientist Dr. Frederick Otto Stohr, originally Stöhr (1871–1946), in London on 22 November 1913. He had been conducting ornithological research in Northern Rhodesia (modern Zambia); they settled in South Africa, where he later practised medicine.
She spent many years in South Africa, where she performed professionally on the piano well into her senior years. In 1958 (at age 80) she made a well-received tour of South Africa with Dutch violinist Herman Salomon, who had previously gained his reputation as leader of The Amsterdam string Quartet.
Hall died at Wynberg, South Africa, and was buried at Hout Bay Cemetery.
