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Ella Richards papers (PA 13), Performing Arts Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
The collection was transferred from the Minnesota Historical Society in 1972.
Ella Richards was a pianist and piano teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was a serious student of the piano, spending two years of study in Vienna, Austria, funded by the Schubert Club of St. Paul. Ms. Richards gave piano lessons until she was 91; she passed away in 1959 at the age of 93.
The collection contains the papers of Ella Richards, a piano teacher and pianist. The materials include photographs, letters, cards, programs, invitations, clippings, transcript of a radio program and a published article written by Ms. Richards about her time spent studying in Europe with the pianist Leschetizky. Her letters include correspondence with Lucile and Clifford Curzon, Jan Smeterling, Myra Hess, Arthur Schnabel and Katherine Goodson.
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