Julie Rivé-King

Julie Rivé-King was an American pianist and composer.

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Julie Rivé-King, born in Cincinnati in 1857, was recognized as a talented composer and distinguished American pianist from an early age. She began piano lessons with her mother, Caroline Rive, and performed publicly by the age of eight, according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920). Her studies took her to New York, where she worked with Mason and Mills, and then to Leipzig in 1872 to study with Reinecke. Her debut in Leipzig in 1874 featured Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, and after further study with Liszt, she appeared with the New York Philharmonic Society in 1875. Grove’s Dictionary (1920) notes that she subsequently gave over 4,000 concerts and recitals, more than 500 with orchestra, traveling as a soloist with conductors Thomas and Seidl. Her piano music, including the “Impromptu in A-flat,” “Bubbling Spring,” and “Polonaise Heroique,” was “deservedly popular” and “won much acceptance,” as recorded by A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905) and Grove’s Dictionary (1920). By 1920, she was teaching at the Bush Conservatory in Chicago.