FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER (JULY 16, 1863, BIELSKO, POLAND
– AUGUST 20, 1927, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES)
Zeisler was born Fannie
Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia to Jewish parents.
She emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 4 in 1867. The
family settled in Chicago, Illinois where they later changed their name to Bloomfield.
She was the sister of Maurice Bloomfield and the aunt of Leonard Bloomfield. At
the age of six, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out
tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl
Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the United States, heard
her play and advised that she became a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. She made
her debut at the age of 11 in February 1875. In 1878, she returned to Austria
to study in Vienna, under Leschetizky. While in Austria, she changed her name
from Blumenfeld to Bloomfield. She returned to Chicago in 1883. Bloomfield
performed in concert in Chicago in April 1884. In January 1885, she debuted in
New York City. Around the turn of the century, she made piano rolls of various
piano compositions, Chopin’s Waltz No. 11 in G minor being among them.
Bloomfeld married the attorney Sigmund Zeisler in 1885 and had three sons:
Leonard, Paul and Ernest. In 1888, she returned to Vienna to study with
Leschetizky. She also began to tour in Europe and the United States, with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her last performance was in February 1925 in
Chicago. She played the Beethoven Andante Favori and concertos by Chopin and
Schumann. Zeisler died in Chicago, Illinois on August 20, 1927.
TRACKLIST
1461 GLUCK-SGAMBATI -Dance of
the Blessed Spirits from “Orféo”
1462 BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata,
Op. 111, c 1st mvt.
1463 BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata,
Op. 111, c 2nd mvt.
2591 PAGANINI-SCHUMANN –
Caprice, Op. 1, E
2593 BACH-TAUSIG – Toccata and
Fugue, d, S. 565
2594 CHAMINADE – Le retour
(The Return) Op. 134, C
2595 CHOPIN – Waltz, Op. 64,
No. 1, Db “Minute”
2597 SCHUETT – Croquis et
Silhouettes, Op. 87, No. 4
6960 CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op.
48, No. 1, c
6963 MOSZKOWSKI – La jongleuse
(The Juggleress), Op. 52, No. 4, Eb
6978 CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op.
27, No. 1, c#
6979 MOSZKOWSKI – Liebeswalzer
(Love-Waltz) Op. 57, No. 5
7002 CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op.
27, No. 2, Db
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