Adele Lewing

Adele Lewing (6 August 1866 – 16 February 1943) was a German pianist and composer.

Early years and education Lewing was born in Hanover in 1866. She was educated in classical music by her grandfather, A. C. Prell, the principal cellist in the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover, a pupil of Bernhard Romberg; and in piano by Johannes Moeller, a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. At the age of 14, she made her first public appearance. Later, she became the student of Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn at the Leipzig conservatory, studying also harmony with the latter. and into the early 1930s.

Personal life In 1900 in Harlem, Lewing married Benjamin W. Stiefel, a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She and Stiefel had met when she was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory 15 years previously. They had one child, a daughter in 1904.

Stiefel died 16 February 1943 in New York City.