The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-05
KEEPS IN PRAGIIbING
Madame BIoOmfeld-Z
Work al the Piano.
HER LIFE AT HOME
She PrideS Herself on Being
Tidy and Domestic.

chanting masic. a Chicago Tribune re-
porter writes as follows:
That Chicago is the homo Of perhaps
fhe greatest woman pianist in the world
IS d. tact overlooked by many VINO are
lHtSnasted in The city's materialism. or
Eho fancy thai the first requisite in PROV
Ing a local culture is to establish a few
bronze, figures on stone pedestaIs.
Certa in it is that anywhere else in the
world ue namo Of Mrs. Fannie Bloom
fteld-Zeis Ter awal1ens the interest Of the
world of music. giving Chicago a place
On the wo Ids map, such as commercial
Ism has no : done. And yet IN her homo
Mt 356 La s. lie avenue. Nine. Bloomfield
zoisler is KIN 'rn to her corterie Of friends
rs u won.anly woman. mother CT a falniIv
RnG Of strong domestic instincts, whose
home is first lways. no matter how the
public may aprl and. And the public does
applaud 20 The dcnt that in the musical
eddy Of Paderev ski himself she can fiji
a concert han in my city in Europe
And 1ny2 The famous Leschctizkv.
who directed the genius Of Paderewski.
spent five years Of instruction upon Fan
ME Bloomfold. she and the brilliant Pole
Hre Of the same Sc hool. and there are
cities on record rs s,lying that had Mrs
Observation-Disclosures the muscular develop
mont Of the mcn SIZE might dispute even
his superiOr.ty-
Fannie Bloon6old was born in Bielitz,
Austria. in 1865. Two Years later her
parents moved To Chicago. 50 that as
nearly rs possible Nine. Bloomfield Zeis-
Ter is n Chicago product She came Of
lorg inc Of professional people. Mcritz
Rosenthal IS q cousin. for five years
first baritone in the metropolitan Opera
house in Eew York. Both art and let
fers have accorded high inches 20 her
Kin. and ner brother. as q professor in
Johns Hopkins University. has been re-
gefdcd as one of the foremost Of San
skirt scholars.
Mime. Observation-Disclosures does no. re-
member when she could not PLAY on the
piano. Unlike many other artists she
was encouraged il this bent for music
Carl Wolfsohn discovered her whea she
was only 10 wears old. ana under his tute-
lage she was playing great music at Is
wears. Wolfsohn established in the Bee
thcven club in Chicago and at one Of the
monthly reunions of the society little
Fannie Bloomfield played Thereafter.
over and over again. she played at these
reynions.
enc day when Nine. Essipoff was in
Chicago TO play, the little girl was
brought before her and seated IT the
piano. Nine. Essipoh was delighted
Send her TO Ieschetsky.' said the
famous wife of that great instructor.
So ia lS7S Fannie Bloomfield went 80 Vi
emma. Size was only j years old. bu5 she
had ner mother fer a companion IN the
five long. hard years of work which fol-
lowed.
And it was there that Fannie Bloom
field was courted by Sigmund Zsisler.
the young attorney from Chicago. who
was studying IN Vienna for his doctors
degree at lav.
Fannie Bloomfield needed fingers" so
Tho master old her and it was 10 lccuire
fingers that the thin slip of girl tuiled
hardest WaeL the I'VE years wera over
she PLAYED in Germany and German crit
ics applauded. Her first appearance be-
foIe critical audience WAS in Vienna
where. as pupil still. she played with
On5ricek. with whom she appeared in
Chicago in the spring of 1886
Nine. Observation-Disclosures first appear
ance in Chicago after the completion Of
her studies was or January II. lSSf The
concert WIS successful. and from that
tine she was recognized in America SHu
she worked. Then again for a few
months she went back 10 the Leschetizky
iailL Afterward she played again.
In 1893 Nine Bloomdeld-ZeisIer went
ahroad II was a venture Tor a Chicago
artist-and a woman. at that-but it was
p successful venture. She PLAYED in Ber-
lin Dres@en Vienna. and Loipsic and the
critiqves of that season would be spur
II any ones ambitions.
AN this aid not satisfy In 1891 she
went back 10 Germany. PLAYING in Nun
5ch. Frankfort Cologne. and Bremen.
everywhere filing houses ana eainins
new h7nors. Iu 1905 she Went 10 l.uropa
again. appearing AZ recitaIs and IN or
Chcstva fri Tondon Then at the Lower
Rhine music festival in Cologne she had
fhe honor of piece soloist-an honor ap-
preciated by any one in the music world
IN that event of the German season be-
lore and since these European tours her
work i'm America goes without comment
OF her annual afnearance in Chicago. !
only few nichts ago. critics seem agreed (
rs 70 her continued Development
The stranger called at the Zeislor home I
In Ia Sale avenue. IS half startled m
The intense fore tuIness Of the fran lit
lie woman a. who advanced 70 meet him +
At the nrst slance. the force. character
and presence 2Vershedowcd the physical
woman 10 such nm extent as to be almost
incongruous: but after moment ono
reccEnize th3t they are too truly Part
Of the woman 60 De- subjected 10 co.anar- +
Ison with her physical SELF
Nine Bioom6Ol1-Ze isler IS of olive
complexion. with lar-e. dark evs. and
with stuCenl stoor Ut the shoulders .
Her oicc. naturally low becomes almost S
strident ut times under the influence oil
her interest enc emotions Ii is II such
times thai the visitor sees most ,laini,
the spirit which has impelled Ter le har
present position In The woill Of n.osi,
snG musicians.
II can't feel that J ever was irod-
Sgy. she sid. smfluy. ii answer H.
s--.St.'n. - owe q street, dsaI Ii r
: rother. 10 n,y tatler. zoe. ONLY IN less de-
gree. Tie was ambitious Tor mi. m
worldly sense. but my notler was n ,s-
81 sympathy with me. as sao,hers Is -all,
are.
From Tho bes.alsae ] felt somehow
deep Gown. that shauil realize ral ann
billions. There ere hearlac.-es -al aisan-
pointments. but 81 inrer soi- never SAD
tered. j was th ude-iso 5sr-
1idenoc- sllIese. Ssntvh -glliesi i..e %
keep my purpose I.tseh. i4i.g V
hard 3las fetr. IS I'D si,1l master f
been ard ulu~i BE- & -ld a.rr -r n-