Elizabeth Jonas

Elizabeth Gladman Jonas (born Southwark, London, England about 1825; died 1877) was an English pianist, child prodigy, and music teacher.

[1] Jonas began piano lessons at four years of age and later studied with pianist and composer John Field around 1831–2; her public debut was at a concert of his in March 1832.

She was given a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in 1836 and re-elected in 1838; she studied there with Moscheles and with Thomas Attwood (until his death in 1838).

She continued to perform publicly music of Felix Mendelssohn,[6] her teacher Moscheles, and others with success.

[7] She actually survived many more years, dying in 1877, at which time she was living in St. John's Wood in London with her sister Emily (1831-1891).