Greta Kraus

The following year, she participated in a performance of Bach's Musical Offering in a version for eight instruments conducted by Hermann Scherchen.

[2] She soon became known as a harpsichord soloist and chamber musician (including duo partner with Arnold Walter), and from 1942 to 1956 was continuo player in performances of Bach's Passions and Mass in B Minor and Messiah by Handel at the Massey Hall, conducted by Ernest MacMillan.

[3] Starring Elizabeth Benson Guy (soprano), Nicholas Fiore (flute), Donald Whitton (cello) and Corol McCartney (violin), she founded the Toronto Baroque Ensemble in 1958.

On the piano, she accompanied Lois Marshall in 1979 in a performance of Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and in 1981 in a concert of Hugo Wolff songs at Toronto's Hartt House.

Her students have included Douglas Bodle, Austin Clarkson, Elizabeth Keenan, R. Murray Schafer, Patrick Wedd and Valerie Weeks as well as singers Russell Braun, Elizabeth Benson Guy, Ingemar Korjus, Andrew MacMillan, Mary Morrison, Gary Relyea, Roxolana Roslak and Teresa Stratas.

Portrait of Greta Kraus, taken in Vienna in June 1974
Greta Kraus during a visit to Vienna in June 1974