Olga Samaroff

Olga Samaroff
Born
Lucy Mary Agnes Hickenlooper

(1880-08-08)August 8, 1880
DiedMay 17, 1948(1948-05-17) (aged 67)
Occupations
  • Classical pianist
  • piano pedagogue
  • music critic
Spouses
Boris Loutzky
(divorced)
(m. 1911; div. 1923)
Children1
External audio
audio icon You may listen to Olga Samaroff performing Franz Liszt's Liebesträume No. 3 in A Flat Major in 1921 and her arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 in 1931 here on archive.org

Olga Samaroff (August 8, 1880 – May 17, 1948) was an American pianist, music critic, and teacher. Among her teachers was Charles-Valentin Alkan's son, Élie-Miriam Delaborde. Her second husband was the conductor Leopold Stokowski.

Samaroff was also a prominent member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.[1]

  1. ^ "Art Alliance to Give Long Table Luncheon." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 21, 1917, p. 3 (subscription required).