FREER, Eleanor Warner Everest
(1864–1942)> LECTURER · SINGER · COMPOSER
FREER, Eleanor Warner Everest American lecturer, singer and composer. Philadelphia, May 14, 1864; Chicago, December 13, 1942. She was the daughter of the singer Cornelius Everest. She showed musical promise at the age of four and at seven received regular musical instruction from her father. At 14 she sang the part of Josephine in a semi-professional performance of HMS Pinafore. At 18 she went to Paris and studied voice under Mathilda Marchesi, composition under Benjamin Godard and the teaching…