Anna Theresa Berger Lynch Explained
| Anna Theresa Berger Lynch |
| Other Names: | Beula Merton, Anna Teresa Berger, Annie Berger Lynch |
| Birth Name: | Anna Theresa Berger |
| Birth Date: | 16 May 1853 |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Death Place: | Jackson, Michigan |
Anna Theresa Berger Lynch (May 16, 1853 – February 25, 1925), born Anna Theresa Berger, was an American musician.
Early life
Anna Theresa Berger was born in Baltimore, the daughter of Henry F. Berger and Annie Berger. Her father was an organist and organ builder. She played cornet and trumpet from an early age, as part of her family's touring musical act,[1] and, after her father's death in 1863,[2] with the Carter Zouave Troupe.[3] [4] [5] She studied with Jules Levy and with Scottish-born cornetist Matthew Arbuckle.[6] [7] She also learned to play the violin.[8]
Career
Berger toured with her siblings in the United States in 1871 and 1879,[9] [10] played in Cuba in 1877, toured in Europe in 1889, and started her own concert company in 1892. During her concerts in London in 1889, critic George Bernard Shaw wrote, "I do not know why a lady should play the cornet; indeed, I do not know why anybody should play it; but her right is as valid as a man's." He continued, "Miss Berger's double-tonguing verges on the unattainable."[11]
Berger sometimes performed as a solo musician under the name Beula Merton.[12]
Personal life
In 1879, Anna Berger married theatrical agent Leigh S. Lynch.[13] [14] They raised five children. One daughter died from diphtheria in 1888. Her husband died in 1904.[15] She died in 1925, aged 71 years, in Jackson, Michigan.
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Notes and References
- News: August 16, 1905 . 1905 Anna Berger-Lynch of the Berger Family of Bell Ringers Performs . 3 . Detroit Free Press. September 27, 2020 . Newspapers.com.
- Book: Santella, Anna-Lise P.. https://books.google.com/books?id=4MXDkIca5lYC&q=Anna+Teresa+Berger&pg=PA63 . American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century . April 9, 2012 . University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-76976-9. Spitzer. John . Chicago . 62–64. en. Modeling Music: Early Organizational Structures of American Women's Orchestras.
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2KhHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZP4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=820%2C4650905 "Holiday Entertainment"
- Web site: Digital Collections, The New York Public Library. (still image) The Berger Family. September 27, 2020 . The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
- Card, Robyn Dewey, "Women as classically-trained trumpet players in the United States" (2009). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 2891, pages 6–8.
- Book: Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. 2001. Hal Leonard Corporation . 978-1-57467-061-5. 119–120. en.
- Web site: Courtois B-FlatA Cornet. September 27, 2020 . National Museum of American History. en.
- Book: Koehler, Elisa. A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player . March 1, 2015 . Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-8658-2. 20. en.
- News: April 28, 1871 . The Berger Bell Ringers. 4. The Daily Journal of Commerce. September 27, 2020 . Newspapers.com.
- News: March 29, 1879 . The Berger Family and Sol Smith Russell Troupe . 1 . Atchison Daily Patriot. September 27, 2020 . Newspapers.com.
- Book: Shaw, Bernard . London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars . 1917 . Constable, limited . 127 . en.
- Holman, Gavin (October 2018). "Soft lips on cold metal: Female brass soloists of the 19th and early 20th centuries" pages 5, 37.
- Book: Lamster, Mark . Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made it America's Game . August 5, 2007 . PublicAffairs . 978-1-58648-595-5. 36. en.
- Book: Grau, Robert . Forty Years Observation of Music and the Drama. 1909. Broadway Publishing Company . 182–183. en.
- News: July 21, 1904 . Leigh Lynch is Dead. 9. Detroit Free Press. September 27, 2020 . Newspapers.com.
