Charlotte Ruegger (17 November 1876 – 16 June 1959) was a Swiss composer, conductor, violinist, and music educator who taught at several colleges in the United States.
The family moved to Belgium during Ruegger's childhood, and she graduated from the University of Brussels at age 16, although girls were not awarded diplomas at the time.
Her teachers included Jean-Baptiste Colyns, Cesar Thomson (she also worked as his assistant), and Florian Zajic.
[5] World War I broke out while she was visiting her mother in Belgium and she stayed there, volunteering as a Red Cross nurse.
[2] Ruegger returned to America after the war, where she was the director of the Fayetteville (North Carolina) School of Music and its violin teacher in 1920.