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American cellist
Lillian Pringle Baldauf
A young woman in profile, with light skin and dark hair in a loose updo, with a thin beaded headband across her forehead; she is holding a celloLillian Pringle, from a 1927 publication
BornLillian Pringle
December 27, 1880
Danville, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 5, 1964 (age 83)
Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationCellist

Lillian Pringle Baldauf (December 27, 1880 – January 5, 1964) was an American cellist. She taught at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

Early life and education

Pringle was born in Danville, Illinois, the daughter of James Lewis Pringle and Dovie Estelle Polk Pringle. In her youth she played cello in the Pringle Concert Company with her older sister Agnes, a violinist. She graduated from Chicago Musical College.

Career

Pringle was a cellist who performed across the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. She was a member of the Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and the Joseffer String Quartette of Chicago. In 1918 she was advertised as "the greatest woman cello virtuoso in the world."

She toured with baritone Bernardo Olshanky in 1921, and with singer Katherine Browne in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Mississippi in 1925. She gave recitals and played in churches and community events in the Chicago area later in the 1920s. "Her tone is noble, sonorous, suave, and absolutely convincing," according to a 1927 review in a Toronto newspaper. "Sympathetic beyond everything, it never sinks to mere sentimentalism."

After marriage, she taught cello at Kalamazoo College, where she was also conductor of the Instrumental Ensemble. She was a founder of the Little Symphony Orchestra of Kalamazoo. She also taught at Western Michigan University, where she played a faculty quartet and was active in the school's annual Bach Festival. In her later years she gave private lessons in cello and piano in Kalamazoo.

Personal life

Pringle married fellow cellist Hans Bruno Baldauf. They were both active in the Kalamazoo Amateur Astronomical Association. She died in 1964, at the age of 83, at her home in Kalamazoo. The Lillian Pringle Baldauf Prize in Music is an award at Kalamazoo College, funded in her memory.

References

  1. Baldauf's age was not consistently reported in census returns and other sources. The December 1880 birth date is from the U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.
  2. ^ "Set Rites for Local Musician". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1964-01-06. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Mrs, Baldauf A Picture of Promptness". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1960-07-03. p. 19. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Chicago Trade Doings" Watson's Weekly Art Journal 85(February 4, 1905): 301.
  5. "Three Artists of HIgh Note on One Program". The Great Falls Leader. 1922-04-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Costume Recital Pleases Auditors". The Morning News. 1923-12-22. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Overland Theatre (advertisement)". Nebraska Daily News-Press. 1918-04-07. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Olshansky Recital Plans Complete". Intelligencer Journal. 1921-01-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Benefit Recitals". Elmira Star-Gazette. 1921-05-05. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Iota Alpha". The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon. 19: 313. August 1925.
  11. Gillespie, Margaret (October 25, 1929). "Lillian Pringle, Cellist; Edith Salvi, Harpist". The Music News. 21: 35.
  12. "The Lyon & Healy Concerts". The Reform Advocate. 70: 295. October 10, 1925.
  13. "Lake View Musical Society Concert". The Musical Leader. 54: 17. April 19, 1928.
  14. "Notes of Chicago Musicians: Local Composers on Next Program of Musicians Club". The Musical Leader. 54: 18. February 9, 1928.
  15. "Lillian Pringle" The Music News 19(May 20, 1927): 44.
  16. "Kalamazoo College Faculty Artists to be Monday Musical Club Guests". The Herald-Palladium. 1957-03-28. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. College, Kalamazoo (1945). Kalamazoo College Bulletin: Catalogue number. The College. p. 15.
  18. "Little Symphony Resumes Sept. 20". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1941-09-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Lillian Baldauf's Pupils Play Tonight". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1958-06-04. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "Kalamazoo Scientist Dies at 73". The Kalamazoo Gazette. 1965-11-11. p. 21. Retrieved 2025-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. "A Brief History of the KAS". KAS Online. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
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