From 1893 to 1897, she was taught by Julius Blankensee in Nuremberg where her family moved after her mother married her second husband August Göllerich.

Between 1897 and 1899, she attended the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Ivan Knorr and Fritz Bassermann teaching her in music theory and violin.

In 1899, she moved to Berlin and continued her studies with Joseph Joachim and Andreas Moser at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik.

[3] In 1903, she settled in Linz, where she was immediately awarded a gold medal at the First Upper Austrian Music Festival.

Pálma von Pászthory reworked a number of keyboard compositions by Bach, Friederic Chopin and Tchaikovsky for violin or string quartet.