Regina Cohn Watson (April 23, 1845 – July 31, 1913) was a composer, pianist, and teacher[1] who was born in Germany.
In 1873, she married Lewis H. Watson, a Civil War veteran who had fought with an infantry unit from Maine.
[2] Regina Watson studied music with Franz Liszt and Karl Tausig in Europe, and with Bernhard Ziehn,[3] probably in Chicago.
[9] Her students included Teresa Carreno,[10] Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,[11] Phyllis Fergus Hoyt,[12] Peter Lutkin, Veronica Murphy,[13] and Theodora Sturkow-Ryder.
[14] Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge organized an effort in 1916 to build[15] and name a studio at the MacDowell Colony in Watson's memory.