SOPHIE MENTER 05-15-1907 LONDON FLYER/program on reverse 8" x 10"

Description

You are bidding on 8" x 10" flyer for German pianist, SOPHIE MENTER (1848-1918), London concert, at STEINWAY HALL (lower Seymour Street). "Only recital this season, May 15, 1907."
The top of the flyer had been previously glued.
Revised Programme:
Liszt-Fantasie und Fugue uber den namen Bach (B.A.C.H.)
Beethoven-Sonata in E-flat, (Les Adieux) Op 81a
R. Schumann-Fantasiestucke, Op 12 No 7 (Traumeswirren)
Chopin-Prelude (Posthumous); Three Preludes
Schubert-Liszt-Soiree de Vienne
Wagner-Liszt-Tannhauser Overture
Mendelssohn-Liszt-Auf Flugeln des Gesanges
Schubert-Liszt-Erlkonig
Sophie was one of 9 children born in Munich, Germany. A successful concert in Frankfurt in 1867 was attended by K. Tausig who subsequently gave her tuition. She received some instruction from Franz Liszt. Their relationship was not exclusively musical; from their liason a daughter, Celeste was born.
In 1872 Sophie married cellist, David Popper.
She professed at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1883-7. In 1894 in London gave first British performance of Tchaikovsky's Fantasie for piano and orchestra and at the same concert played her, "Zigeuner-weisen for piano and orchestra." In the same visit gave a performance with her pupil V. Sapelinikov of Liszt's Concerto Pathetique.