[1][3] Elisabeth Reiss took early lessons from an influential piano teacher of her time, Nils Larsen,[1][2] who taught her for free because of her great talent.

[1] In 1920 she received a scholarship for studies in Paris and Vienna, and back in Norway she took classes with Bokken Lasson[1] in the cabaret style, while she continued to give piano concerts to very good reviews, especially for her performances of works by Max Reger, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy.

[1] The theater director Bjørn Bjørnson wrote immediately afterward in the Oslo press: I feel compelled to publicly comment on the artistic event that I experienced the other evening.

What Elisabeth Reiss showed us in her art, the improvisation, the responsiveness, which received an outstanding interpretation through her, represents a completely new genre on stage in the Scandinavian countries.

Other contributors to the texts included Johan Borgen, Vilhelm Dybwad, André Bjerke, Inger Hagerup, Alf Hartmann, Thorleif Reiss, and Piet Hein.