Amanda Röntgen-Maier

Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female to graduate with the title “Musikdirectör” from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1873. Biography Amanda Maier was born into a musical home in Landskrona and discovered her musical talent early. Her first instruction in violin and piano was from her father. At the age of sixteen (1869), Maier began studying at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where she studied violin, organ, piano, cello, composition and harmony. After graduation, she continued to study composition with the conservatory teachers Reinecke and Richter in Leipzig and violin from Engelbert Röntgen, concert master at Gewandhaus Orchestra in the same city. During this time in Leipzig (1873-76) she composed a violin sonata, a piano trio and a violin concerto for orchestra. Her Violin Concerto in D Minor was premiered in Halle in 1875 with Maier as soloist and received good reviews. It was repeated on 8 February 1876 in Leipzig at the Gewandhaus with Carl Reinecke conducting, and again in Stockholm on 18 November 1876. From 1876 to 1880, she went on three major concert tours. In the summer