page_title: Teresina Tua
hierarchical_section_title: Teresina Tua
caption_attribution_description: sv:Teresina Tua (1867-1955/56?), Italian violin player and music teacher; known as "the angel of the violin".
context_page_description: Maddalena Maria Teresa Tua was a prominent Italian violinist who demonstrated her musical talents from an early age. When only seven, she walked around northern Italy on a concert tour with her parents. She entered the Paris Conservatoire when she was 11, winning the Grand Prix for violin in 1880. She was widely acclaimed on her concert tours in the 1880s, filling the Opera House in Vienna in 1882 and performing in Germany, France, Spain and London. Her performances in the United States in 1887 were less successful and she soon returned to Europe where she married and settled in Rome. Touring Russia in 1895, she was accompanied by Rachmaninoff. In 1940, she joined a convent where she died in 1956.
context_section_description: Maddalena Maria Teresa Tua (23 April 1866 – 28 October 1956) was a prominent Italian violinist who demonstrated her musical talents from an early age. When only seven, she walked around northern Italy on a concert tour with her parents. She entered the Paris Conservatoire when she was 11, winning the Grand Prix for violin in 1880. She was widely acclaimed on her concert tours in the 1880s, filling the Opera House in Vienna in 1882 and performing in Germany, France, Spain and London. Her performances in the United States in 1887 were less successful and she soon returned to Europe where she married and settled in Rome. Touring Russia in 1895, she was accompanied by Rachmaninoff. In 1940, she joined a convent where she died in 1956.
caption: Teresina Tua (c. 1885)
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