Edna Baxter Bruner
{{short description|American violinist}}
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| caption = Edna Baxter Bruner, from a 1927 publication
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| birth_date = July 6, 1894
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = October 23, 1978 (age 84)
| death_place = Hammond, Indiana, U.S.
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| occupation = Violinist, music educator
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Edna Baxter Bruner (July 6, 1894 – October 23, 1978) was an American violinist, pianist, and music educator. She taught violin and piano students at the Chicago Piano College and the Hammond School of Music.
Early life and education
Bruner was born in Chicago, the daughter of Otis Willard Bruner and Maude Baxter Bruner.{{Cite book |last=Daughters of the American Revolution |first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U4oBAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner&pg=RA4-PA249#v=onepage&q=Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner&f=false |title=Linage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (revised) |date=1929 |page=249 |language=en}} Her mother was a pianist and music educator.{{Cite news |date=1941-06-05 |title=Heads Piano Classes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-heads-piano-classes/162684463/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1930-09-30 |title=Studio Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-studio-notes/162706062/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Career
Bruner toured the United States and Canada as a violinist.{{Cite journal |last=Beldon |first=Agnes |date=September 18, 1924 |title=Weekly Commentary; Chicago Piano College Offers Evening Courses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ao4MAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner&pg=PA285#v=onepage&q=Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner&f=false |journal=Musical Leader and Concert Goer |volume=48 |issue=12}} She and her mother both taught at the Chicago Piano College (later known as the Hammond School of Music),[https://books.google.com/books?id=km2hv5TZZDAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner&pg=RA3-PA6#v=onepage&q=%22Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner%22&f=false "Chicago Piano College Presents Bruner Pupils"] Music News 21(July 26, 1929): 6.Gillespie, Margaret. [https://books.google.com/books?id=km2hv5TZZDAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner&pg=RA35-PA13#v=onepage&q=%22Edna%20Baxter%20Bruner%22&f=false "Edna Baxter Bruner"] Music News 21(December 20, 1929): 18c. in Chicago and in Hammond, Indiana.{{Cite journal |date=March 18, 1927 |title=Bruner Studios |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqGTi4fXSlMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Agnes%20Leist%20Beebe&pg=RA13-PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false |journal=Music News |volume=19 |pages=45}}{{Cite news |date=1933-06-15 |title=Recital at Chicago Piano College Tonight; Maude Bruner and Edna Bruner Present Piano and Violin Pupils |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-recital-at-chicago-piano-colle/162703784/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1941-02-25 |title=Bruner Students of Violin and Piano Present Recital |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-bruner-students-of-violin-and/162704586/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=26 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was head of both the piano and violin departments at Hammond after her mother died in 1941.{{Cite news |date=1942-06-19 |title=To Present Music Students |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-to-present-music-students/162704984/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=47 |via=Newspapers.com}} She continued teaching, and was principal of the Hammond school through the 1950s.{{Cite news |date=1955-06-12 |title=Edna Bruner Pupils to Give Recital Monday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-edna-bruner-pupils-to-give-rec/162706752/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=31 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1958-06-06 |title=Bruner Piano, Violin Pupils to Give Recital |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-bruner-piano-violin-pupils-to/162706875/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=35 |via=Newspapers.com}}
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Hammond Historical Society.
Personal life
Bruner died in 1978, at the age of 84, in Hammond, Indiana.{{Cite news |date=1978-10-27 |title=Obituary for Edna Baxter Bruner |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-obituary-for-edna-baxter-brune/162673953/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=The Times |pages=22}}
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Category:American music educators