Florence May (1845 – 1923) was an English pianist who was the student and biographer of Johannes Brahms.
She was born 6 February 1845 in Deptford, London, daughter of music educator Edward Collett May and his wife, Mary.
Initially trained by her father and uncle, she studied music with Clara Schumann in Lichtental, Vienna in 1871.
[2] Returning to England in 1873, she studied composition with George Macfarren and Woldemar Bargiel.
[3] In 1900 she was noted as 'a pianoforte player of considerable cultivation and power.