Alma Stencel (June 28, 1888 – July 22, 1933) was an American pianist and musical prodigy.
[1][2] She was a piano student of Hugo Mansfeldt,[3] Emil Sauer in Vienna, and Leopold Godowsky in Berlin.
[4][5] She studied in Vienna and Berlin in 1900 and 1901,[6][7] and made her London debut in 1902, at age 14, at St. James' Hall.
[1][9][10] She played for Czar Nicholas II, Emperor Franz Josef, King Edward VII, and William Howard Taft during her concert career.
[11] Their wedding took place a few months after Weed's first wife, suffragist Helena Hill, divorced him on grounds of infidelity.