Steiner, Emma Roberta 1856-27.feb.1929 USA Maryland, Baltimore - NY, New York Bronx
conductor, aged 7 she wrote and read music and played different instruments with only a three-month course with Frank Mitler at the Southern Institute, until 1880 she lived with her parents at 806 Lombart Street Baltimore, 1873 assistant music director of the Rice and Collier Iolanthe Company in Chicago, 1893 founded her own New York Ladies Orchestra, 1894 conducted the Anton Seidl Orchestra at Chickering Hall in New York, 1894 residing at 30 West 61st Street New York, 1900-1910 joined the goldrush and spent the summers in Alaska where she discovered the Placer Tin mines north of Nome, the winters she took courses metallurgy and mineralogy at Columbia University, 1902 spent a season working with Heinrich Conried in New York, from 1903 conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, 1905-1911 lecturer of the Board of Education in New York, 1909 appointed commissioner to the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, 1911 residing at 52 Bradhurst Avenue New York, 17.oct.1917 gave a lecture 'Alaska and her wonderful resources' at St Anselm's Hall New York, 1921 presented a program of her own works 'Harmony and Discord' at the Museum of Natural History in New York, 29.oct.1925 she conducted an orchestral concert at the Metropolitan for her recently founded Home for Musicians, 1925 residing with journalist Margaret MacDonald in the Bronx, she conducted a total of over 6000 performances of more than 50 operettas in New York City theatres ; daughter of fruit merchant and colonel Frederick Birely Steiner (Frederick near Baltimore 28.may.1822-1903 Baltimore) and his first wife pianist Catherine H Munder (Baltimore 1824-1876 Baltimore) who married 21.feb.1850 ; sister of Charles Steiner (Baltimore 1854-) ; stepsister of cigar maker Catherine A Shaw (Maryland feb.1875-) to whom Frederick left the bulk of his estate by will ; she was never married

[Grove 2002 gives her birth and death erroneously as 1850-1928 ; Cohen 1981 gives erroneously born 1852 ; Cohen 1981 gives erroneously Emma Roberto ; an unknown source gives erroneously Emma Roberts]