Flora Zygman

{{short description|Polish-American pianist (died 1940)}}

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| other_names = Flora Guenzburg Zygman, Flora G. Zygmanowa

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| nationality = Polish, American

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Flora Guenzburg Zygman (died after May 1940) was a Polish-born American pianist based in Chicago.

Early life

Flora Guenzburg Zygman was from Warsaw.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6GhFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Flora+Zygman&pg=RA6-PA28 "Flora Zygman Goes to Europe"] Music News 14(February 17, 1922): 28. She studied with Sergei Bortkiewicz and with Alexander Glazunov in Saint Petersburg.[https://books.google.com/books?id=x-w6AQAAMAAJ&q=Guenzberg "Flora Guenzberg-Zygman's Debut"] Musical Courier (May 10, 1917): 16.

Career

Zygman taught{{Cite journal|date=February 4, 1921|title=Flora Zygman Gives Studio Musicale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WdFAQAAMAAJ&q=Chicago+Zygman+piano&pg=RA3-PA6|journal=Music News|volume=13|pages=6}} and played piano in Chicago{{Cite news|last=Donaghey|first=Frederick|date=1918-12-16|title=Saturday to Monday in Music|pages=23|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51586927/saturday-to-monday-in-musicfrederick/|access-date=2020-05-18|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1917-04-30|title=About Sunday's Music|pages=15|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51588484/about-sundays-music/|access-date=2020-05-18|via=Newspapers.com}} from 1917,{{Cite news|last=Donaghey|first=Frederick|date=1917-04-29|title=About Music and Musicians|pages=65|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51589756/about-music-and-musiciansfrederick/|access-date=2020-05-18|via=Newspapers.com}} and was a soloist with the Temple Judea Symphony Orchestra in Chicago in 1918.[https://books.google.com/books?id=BpHlAAAAMAAJ&dq=Flora+Zygman&pg=PA134 "Temple Judea Symphony Orchestra Concert"] The Reform Advocate (March 16, 1918): 134. In 1919 she was a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite journal|date=September 27, 1918|title=An Attractive Studio Recital|url=https://archive.org/details/musicnews102watt|journal=Music News|volume=10|pages=[https://archive.org/details/musicnews102watt/page/4 4]|via=Internet Archive}} She made her New York debut in 1919, in an afternoon at the Aeolian Hall.{{Cite news|date=1919-11-14|title=Flora Zygman Gives First Piano Recital|pages=11|work=New York Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51586467/flora-zygman-gives-first-piano-recital/|access-date=2020-05-18|via=Newspapers.com}} "The young pianist played with daylight cheerfulness and feminist sensitiveness," reported one reviewer, "and with no little technical skill."[https://books.google.com/books?id=gNtFAQAAMAAJ&dq=Flora+Zygman&pg=RA3-PA9 "Flora Zygman Has {{sic|Suc|essful|nolink=y}} Debut"] Musical America (November 22, 1919): 9.

She made piano roll recordings for Ampico in 1920.[https://books.google.com/books?id=lptQAAAAYAAJ&dq=Flora+Zygman&pg=PA236 "Flora Zygman to Play for Ampico"] The Music Trades (December 27, 1919): 34. She also played in trios with violinist Edmund Zygman and cellist Adolf Hoffman,{{Cite journal|date=May 6–13, 1921|title=Zygman-Hoffmann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WdFAQAAMAAJ&q=Zygman&pg=RA3-PA6|journal=Music News|volume=13|pages=20}} and gave a concert with German contralto Rosa Olitzka on Mackinac Island in 1920.{{Cite journal|date=August 27, 1920|title=Flora Zygman and Rosa Olitzka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2lFAQAAMAAJ&q=Zygman|journal=Music News|volume=12|pages=25}}{{Cite journal|date=October 8, 1920|title=Flora Zygman Returns to Her Chicago Classes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2lFAQAAMAAJ&q=Zygman|journal=Music News|volume=12|pages=26}}

In 1922, 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940, she was briefly noted for being the very last alphabetical listing in each year's new edition of Who's Who in America.{{Cite news|date=1932-09-20|title=New 'Who's Who' Off Presses|pages=19|work=The Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51588685/new-whos-who-off-presses/|access-date=2020-05-18|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=May 29, 1940|title=1940–41 Who's Who Has 31,752 Names: 2,862 New Sketches Appear in Biographical Volume to Be Out Friday|page=28|work=The New York Times|id={{ProQuest| }}}}

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