Pianist. First wife of Leopold Stokowski and mother of his daughter, Sonya, her only child. They married in 1911 and divorced in 1923. Born Lucy Jane Olga Hickenlooper to Carlos and Jane (Loening) Hickenlooper. Her maternal grandmother, Lucy (Palmer)Loening Grunewald, had been a concert pianist in the United States and Europe. She changed her name to Olga Samaroff around 1904-05 and became internationally successful as a pianist. Following an arm injury in 1926 she turned to teaching and writing. She taught at Juilliard Graduate School and Philadelphia Conservatory and was a music critic for the New York Evening Post from 1926 to 1928. Her various awards included honorary doctor of music degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (1931) and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (1943). In 1944 President Roosevelt appointed her a member of the Advisory Committee on Music to the Department of State.
Pianist. First wife of Leopold Stokowski and mother of his daughter, Sonya, her only child. They married in 1911 and divorced in 1923. Born Lucy Jane Olga Hickenlooper to Carlos and Jane (Loening) Hickenlooper. Her maternal grandmother, Lucy (Palmer)Loening Grunewald, had been a concert pianist in the United States and Europe. She changed her name to Olga Samaroff around 1904-05 and became internationally successful as a pianist. Following an arm injury in 1926 she turned to teaching and writing. She taught at Juilliard Graduate School and Philadelphia Conservatory and was a music critic for the New York Evening Post from 1926 to 1928. Her various awards included honorary doctor of music degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (1931) and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (1943). In 1944 President Roosevelt appointed her a member of the Advisory Committee on Music to the Department of State.
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