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Powell (MAUD an American violinist)

MAUD, an American violinist; born in 1868 in Peru, Ill., she studied music first in Chicago. In 1880 she entered the Leipzig Conservatory, and later studied at Paris and Berlin. At a concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Society in 1885, she made her début as a violinist, and from that time she was one of the acknowledged masters of the violin.

She returned to the United States after having gained recognition abroad and was given triumphant receptions everywhere. She excelled all violinists in the number of new compositions written for the violin, and in her ability to successfully introduce novelties into her programs. She died in 1920.