Helena Stone Torgerson

Helena Stone Torgerson (1878 – September 9, 1941) was an American harpist and composer of harp music, based in Chicago.

Helena Stone was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of Frank A.

[8][9] She had a custom-made concert harp, "built on larger scale than is commonly used", for "bigness and resonance of the tone".

[10] "Mrs. Torgerson plays the harp in an altogether superior way," commented one writer in 1913, adding that "besides possessing transcendent technic for the instrument, she is a thorough musician and has abundant good taste in interpretation.

[1] She died from a stroke in 1941, aged 63 years, in Rapid City, South Dakota, while touring.