[3] "Pittsburgh, that wonderful city of steel, iron, coal, smoke, art and progress, with its unnumbered millions and millionaires, has produced nothing more remarkable than this woman composer," declared a music magazine in 1908.

She pursued further studies in composition at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and with Max Reger in Leipzig, before World War I.

[10][11] "Her compositions include every conceivable form," explained one newspaper in 1908, "sonatas for piano, violin, and cello; songs; string quartets, trios, quintets, church music and orchestral works such as overtures, suits and symphonies.

"[12] As "Miss Louis von Heinrich" she returned to teaching post-secondary music classes.

[15] Luella Totten married Thomas E. Patteson, an English army officer, after 1912; in 1918 they were living in Edmonton, Alberta.