Julia Klumpke

[2] She was one of eight children, and among her siblings were the astronomer Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts, the painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, and the neurologist Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke.

[2] Klumpke studied for one year at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, working with Emil Mahr and Herman Hartmann (violin) and with Percy Goetschius (composition).

[2][3] She got further training abroad in the 1920s, studying violin with Eugène Ysaÿe, Leopold Auer, William Henley, and Maurice Hewitt and viola with Henri Benoit.

In the mid-1930s, Klumpke returned live in San Francisco, where she was a member of several musical associations, including the Women Musicians Club and the Women's City Club (both of San Francisco), the California Composers Society, and the Music Teacher's Association of California.

[4] Klumpke died in San Francisco and is buried there in the Neptune Society's Columbarium with her father and two of her sisters.