Friderika Podgornik

Friderika Podgornik, also known as Friederike Hermuth, (1880 – October 1948) was a Slovenian pianist and music educator. She had a successful concert career in Vienna.

Childhood and education She was born in 1880 in Gorizia into a Slovene- and German-speaking family. Her mother was the Austrian pianist and composer Lucilla Theresia Anna Tolomei (1854–1937), known as , She was the eldest of five children, two daughters and three sons. She mostly performed Bach. After the retirement of Marija, Frieda and Amalija, Friderika Podgornik continued to collaborate with Fani. Before the WW I she traveled to Buenos Aires, where she had a successful concert career.

Later life and death After returning from Argentina, she lived in Vienna with her mother and supported herself as a piano teacher. She never married and had no children.