Baur went out to act as their housekeeper and also offered piano and voice lessons from the house.

Baur intended to set up a school based on the European methods.

She also visited Paris and studied there before she returned and opened her Conservatory of Music at the end of the year in a room rented from the School of Young Ladies run by Clara Nourse.

By the second year, the school expanded to include the violin, flute and theoretical instruction.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] Baur died from heart failure at her apartments in the Conservatory on 18 December 1912.