Amy Fay

Amelia Muller Fay (May 21, 1844 – November 9, 1928) was an American concert pianist, manager of the New York Women's Philharmonic Society, and chronicler best known for her memoirs of the European classical music scene.

[1] A pupil of Theodor Kullak, Fay traveled to Europe to study with Franz Liszt.

Amy Fay studied piano under Professor John Knowles Paine of Harvard and at the New England Conservatory of Music.

From 1869 to 1875, she continued her lessons in Germany, where she studied with the most prominent teachers of Europe: pianists Carl Tausig, Theodor Kullak, Franz Liszt, and Ludwig Deppe.

Caland Elisabeth: Artistic Piano Playing as Taught by Ludwig Deppe (1901 Nashville, Reprint ISBN 9780344157028 Gerig, Reginald: Famous Pianists and Their Technique (Washington 1976) ISBN 0-88331-066-X Ydefeldt, Stefan, Die einfache runde Bewegung am Klavier: Bewegungsphilosophien um 1900 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die heutige Klaviermethodik, (2018) Augsburg: Wissner Verlag orig.