2 Quotes & Sayings By Margaret Bottome
Margaret Bottome is considered to be one of the most influential women in the history of Western music. She was born in Germany in 1877. Her father was a renowned musician and she grew up surrounded by music. At age twenty-one, she became the organist at St
John's, her father's church in Hamburg, Germany. The following year, she performed at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England.
Her first trip to America was made in 1900 when she went to New York to appear as soloist with the Johann Strauss Orchestra. While there, she received an offer to become the organist for St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City where she worked for six years before returning to Germany.
In 1914, she returned to America permanently and lived there for twenty-five years until her death on February 11, 1942 at age sixty-nine. After her death, her diaries were published as Life of a Lifetime: The Diaries of Margaret Bottome (1943).