Lillian Pringle Baldauf
{{short description|American cellist}}
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| name = Lillian Pringle Baldauf
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| alt = A young woman in profile, with light skin and dark hair in a loose updo, with a thin beaded headband across her forehead; she is holding a cello
| caption = Lillian Pringle, from a 1927 publication
| birth_name = Lillian Pringle
| birth_date = December 27, 1880
| birth_place = Danville, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = January 5, 1964 (age 83)
| death_place = Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
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| occupation = Cellist
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Lillian Pringle Baldauf (December 27, 1880Baldauf's age was not consistently reported in census returns and other sources. The December 1880 birth date is from the U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. – January 5, 1964{{Cite news |date=1964-01-06 |title=Set Rites for Local Musician |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kalamazoo-gazette-set-rites-for-loca/163077058/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Kalamazoo Gazette |pages=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}) was an American cellist. She taught at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Early life and education
Pringle was born in Danville, Illinois,{{Cite news |date=1960-07-03 |title=Mrs, Baldauf A Picture of Promptness |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kalamazoo-gazette-mrs-baldauf-a-pic/163076625/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Kalamazoo Gazette |pages=19 |via=Newspapers.com}} the daughter of James Lewis Pringle and Dovie Estelle Polk Pringle. In her youth she played cello in the Pringle Concert Company with her older sister Agnes, a violinist.[https://books.google.com/books?id=aRR_NOPL6NMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Lillian%20Pringle&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Pringle&f=false "Chicago Trade Doings"] Watson's Weekly Art Journal 85(February 4, 1905): 301. She graduated from Chicago Musical College.
Career
Pringle was a cellist who performed across the United States in the 1910s and 1920s.{{Cite news |date=1922-04-02 |title=Three Artists of HIgh Note on One Program |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-great-falls-leader-three-artists-of/163075188/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Great Falls Leader |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1923-12-22 |title=Costume Recital Pleases Auditors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-news-costume-recital-pleases/163075435/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Morning News |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was a member of the Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and the Joseffer String Quartette of Chicago. In 1918 she was advertised as "the greatest woman cello virtuoso in the world."{{Cite news |date=1918-04-07 |title=Overland Theatre (advertisement) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nebraska-daily-news-press-overland-theat/163075625/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=Nebraska Daily News-Press |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}
She toured with baritone Bernardo Olshanky in 1921,{{Cite news |date=1921-01-06 |title=Olshansky Recital Plans Complete |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/intelligencer-journal-olshansky-recital/163074872/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=Intelligencer Journal |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1921-05-05 |title=Benefit Recitals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/elmira-star-gazette-benefit-recitals/163074712/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=Elmira Star-Gazette |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} and with singer Katherine Browne in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Mississippi in 1925.{{Cite journal |date=August 1925 |title=Iota Alpha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6rR3e9sHaRQC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Lillian%20Pringle&pg=RA1-PA313#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Pringle&f=false |journal=The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon |volume=19 |pages=313}} She gave recitals and played in churches and community events in the Chicago area later in the 1920s.{{Cite journal|first=Margaret |last=Gillespie |date=October 25, 1929 |title=Lillian Pringle, Cellist; Edith Salvi, Harpist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=km2hv5TZZDAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Lillian%20Pringle&pg=RA21-PA24-IA1#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Pringle&f=false |journal=The Music News |volume=21 |pages=35}}{{Cite journal |date=October 10, 1925 |title=The Lyon & Healy Concerts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ipp36Cq8UjMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Lillian%20Pringle&pg=PA295#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Pringle&f=false |journal=The Reform Advocate |volume=70 |pages=295}}{{Cite journal |date=April 19, 1928 |title=Lake View Musical Society Concert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quki4Fw7sIIC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Lillian%20Pringle&pg=RA15-PA17#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Pringle&f=false |journal=The Musical Leader |volume=54 |pages=17}}{{Cite journal |date=February 9, 1928 |title=Notes of Chicago Musicians: Local Composers on Next Program of Musicians Club |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quki4Fw7sIIC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Lillian%20Pringle&pg=RA5-PA18#v=onepage&q=Lillian%20Pringle&f=false |journal=The Musical Leader |volume=54 |pages=18}} "Her tone is noble, sonorous, suave, and absolutely convincing," according to a 1927 review in a Toronto newspaper. "Sympathetic beyond everything, it never sinks to mere sentimentalism."[https://books.google.com/books?id=SqGTi4fXSlMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Agnes%20Leist%20Beebe&pg=RA23-PA44#v=onepage&q=Brady&f=false "Lillian Pringle"] The Music News 19(May 20, 1927): 44.
After marriage, she taught cello at Kalamazoo College,{{Cite news |date=1957-03-28 |title=Kalamazoo College Faculty Artists to be Monday Musical Club Guests |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-palladium-kalamazoo-college-f/163076094/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Herald-Palladium |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} where she was also conductor of the Instrumental Ensemble.{{Cite book |last=College |first=Kalamazoo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hc4AAAAMAAJ&q=Lillian+Baldauf&dq=Lillian+Baldauf&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4iLa0sPaKAxWBOkQIHT5TB9QQ6AF6BAgMEAI |title=Kalamazoo College Bulletin: Catalogue number |date=1945 |publisher=The College |page=15 |language=en}} She was a founder of the Little Symphony Orchestra of Kalamazoo.{{Cite news |date=1941-09-14 |title=Little Symphony Resumes Sept. 20 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kalamazoo-gazette-little-symphony-re/163075812/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Kalamazoo Gazette |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}} She also taught at Western Michigan University, where she played a faculty quartet and was active in the school's annual Bach Festival. In her later years she gave private lessons in cello and piano in Kalamazoo.{{Cite news |date=1958-06-04 |title=Lillian Baldauf's Pupils Play Tonight |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kalamazoo-gazette-lillian-baldaufs/163076874/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Kalamazoo Gazette |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Pringle married fellow cellist Hans Bruno Baldauf.{{Cite news |date=1965-11-11 |title=Kalamazoo Scientist Dies at 73 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kalamazoo-gazette-kalamazoo-scientis/163076367/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |work=The Kalamazoo Gazette |pages=21 |via=Newspapers.com}} They were both active in the Kalamazoo Amateur Astronomical Association.{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of the KAS |url=https://www.kasonline.org/history.html |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=KAS Online}} She died in 1964, at the age of 83, at her home in Kalamazoo. The Lillian Pringle Baldauf Prize in Music is an award at Kalamazoo College, funded in her memory.
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