Memoirs of a Dowager : [typescript] ; 1908 Dec. 20 / Mary Regina Schuman-Leclercq.

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Memoirs of a Dowager : [typescript] ; 1908 Dec. 20 / Mary Regina Schuman-Leclercq.

Photocopy of Mary Regina Siegling Schuman-Leclercq's "Memoirs of a Dowager," re Siegling family history and genealogy; Mary Regina's education in Europe and career as a musician and composer; history of her father, Johann Z. Siegling, re his immigration from Germany to South Carolina and operation of the Siegling Music House (Charleston, S.C.); and Mary Regina's marriage and family life with musician and professor, Edward Schuman-Leclercq in Paris.

[20] sheets ; 28 cm.

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Siegling Music House (Charleston, S. C.)

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Composer Mary Regina Siegling Shuman-Leclercq (1824-1920) was the oldest daughter of musician and instrument maker Johann Zacharias Siegling, who was born in 1791 in Erfurt, Germany. Siegling immigrated to South Carolina in 1819, where he anglicized his name as "John Siegling" and established one of Charleston's first music stores, the Siegling Music House, a firm that remained in business until the 1970s. In 1844, Mary Regina accompanied her father to Havana, Cuba, where his firm had establishe...

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Schuman-Leclerq, Edward.

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