Lillie Berg (c. 1845 – died after 1896) was an American musician and musical educator.
Berg studied under Sigmund Lebert, Immanuel Faisst, and Ludwig Stark, and graduating from the Royal School of Music in Stuttgart, she became a teacher of piano and composition. Later, she studied voice culture under Francesco Lamperti, of Milan. Berg's school of music, following the "Lamberti method", was located at 337 West 59th Street, New York City. Her pupils were trained in operatic and concert singing in multiple languages, as well as in ballad, oratorio, and church singing.[1]
The amount of artistic work which she accomplished was notable, as she personally instructed a large number of private pupils, professionals and distinguished amateurs, conducted and lead classes and choruses in her private music school, and was in constant demand at social gatherings. Berg was well versed in philosophy, art, history, poetry, political science and social culture, traveled extensively, and could speak five languages with fluency.[2] She was described as "a striking blonde, with a soprano voice".[3]
- ^ "Personal". The Sandusky Register. 4 November 1889. p. 4. Retrieved 2 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 78.
- ^ Low 1889, p. 394.