Agnes Zimmermann

Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (5 July 1847 14 November 1925) was a German concert pianist and composer who lived and worked in England, where she enjoyed a fifty-year performance career, one of the longest unbroken spans before the public. From the 1870s through to the 1890s in particular she was a central figure in British musical life. Biography Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann was born in Cologne, Germany. Her family moved to England, and she was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of nine, where her teachers were Charles Steggall and Cipriani Potter. Later she studied under Ernst Pauer and Sir George Macfarren. Zimmermann received the Kings Scholarship from 1860 to 1862 and made her public debut in 1863, aged 16, at The Crystal Palace, playing two movements from Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. In 1868 she gave the first of a series of two-piano recitals with Clara Schumann: they often performed Robert Schumann’s Andante und Variationen, Op. 46 together. After ending her studies, Zimmermann went on a tour of Germany, followed by concert tours in 1879, 1880, 1882 and 1883. She remained an active performer for decades, establishing a long-running series of recitals an