Mary Europe

Mary Loraine Europe
BornOctober 1885
Mobile, Alabama
Died1947 (aged 61–62)
Washington, D.C.
Occupation(s)Pianist and music educator
Parent(s)Henry J. Europe and Loraine (Saxon) Europe

Mary Loraine Europe was an American pianist, organist and music educator, who rose to prominence musically during the early 1900s as a performer with the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. She was African-American and was the younger sister of ragtime composer and World War I-era bandleader James Reese Europe (1880—1919).[1][2]

  1. ^ Lefferts, Peter M. “Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of James Reese Europe: Materials for a Biography.” Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska – Lincoln, School of Music, July 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Badger, Reid. A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.