Julie Rivé-King

After a cholera epidemic that took three of their children in New Orleans, the couple moved to Baton Rouge, Louisville and then to Cincinnati where they found teaching positions and where Julie was born.

She studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory with Henry Andrès and in 1870 in New York with Sebastian Bach Mills, William Mason, Francis Korbay and Dionys Pruckner.

She also studied in Europe with Franz Liszt and Carl Reinecke and made her debut in Leipzig in 1873.

She began a concert tour of Europe, but returned to the US when her father was killed in a railroad accident.

In 1876 she married Frank H. King, her manager, and began a career as a composer and teacher, though still working as a concert pianist.