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American pianist
Georgia Kober
An illustration of a blonde woman with fair skinGeorgia Kober, from a 1925 publication
Born1873
Indiana, U.S.
DiedSeptember 14, 1942
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Pianist, music educator

Georgia L. Kober (1873 – September 14, 1942) was a pianist and music educator. For over 30 years, she was a piano instructor and president of the Sherwood School of Music in Chicago.

Early life and education

Kober was born in Indiana, the daughter of George Charles Kober and Rhoda Wanamaker Lewis Kober. Her father was a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War. She studied piano with William Hall Sherwood in Chicago, and with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Josef Lhévinne.

Career

Kober was a concert pianist and music teacher based in Chicago. She performed and lectured often in midwestern cities, played in Texas in 1922, and toured in California in 1923. She made two recordings of piano music in 1924, for the Victor label. Several Chicago composers, including Theodora Sturkow-Ryder, dedicated piano compositions to Kober.

Kober was piano instructor and president of the Sherwood School of Music for more than 30 years. Her faculty included conductors Daniel Protheroe and Isaac Van Grove, soprano Genevra Johnstone Bishop, and music historian Glenn Dillard Gunn. She resigned from the presidency of the Sherwood School in 1942, and received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the school shortly before she died later that year.

Personal life

Kober died in 1942, in Palo Alto, California, in her late sixties. Her large collection of sheet music was given to the Community Music School in San Francisco after she died, except for a copy of a Mephisto Waltz autographed by Franz Liszt, which went to the San Francisco Public Library.

References

  1. "Miss Georgia Kober". The Musical Monitor. 5 (3): 155. November 1915.
  2. "Ensemble Program at Sherwood School". The Music News. 18 (2): 34. July 30, 1926.
  3. "Untitled social item". The Inter Ocean. 1912-06-27. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Mde. Georgia Kober Charmes Music Lovers; Eminent Chicago Pianiste is Feature of Music Teacher's Convention". The Times. 1919-11-07. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Miss Georgia Kober in Piano Recital Here on Friday Evening". The Waco Times-Herald. 1922-03-23. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Noted American Pianist to Give Recital Here Tonight". Modesto Morning Herald. 1923-04-24. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Georgia Kober Recital Here Tuesday Eve". The Modesto Bee. 1923-04-23. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Georgia Kober". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  9. "A Chicago Composers' Program" Music News 18(October 29, 1926): 21.
  10. "Pupils of Georgia Kober in a Series of Piano Recitals". Musical Courier. 74: 9. June 14, 1917.
  11. "Sherwood Music School (advertisement)". Musical Monitor. 5: 374. April 1916.
  12. "Miss Kober receives honorary degree from Sherwood School". The Peninsula Times Tribune. 1942-07-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Obituary for Georgia L. Kober". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1942-09-16. p. 21. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Music World Pays Tribute to Georgia Kober's Gifts". The Peninsula Times Tribune. 1942-10-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Miss Georgia Kober in Piano Recital Here on Friday Evening". The Waco Times-Herald. 1922-03-23. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-03-24 – via Newspapers.com.
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