MENTER, Sophie

German concert pianist, professor and composer. Munich, July 29, 1846; Stockdorf, near Munich, February 23, 1918. She was the daughter of the cellist and Munich court musician Joseph Menter and a pupil of Leonhard, Carl Tausig and Hans von Buelow and in 1868 of Franz Liszt, who described her as my only legitimate piano daughter. She traveled widely in concert tours and in 1868 became court pianist to the Prince of Hohenzollern. In 1874 she was appointed pianist to the Austrian...