Background
She was born in Düsseldorf, where her mother was a music instructor and her father was a registrar.
She was born in Düsseldorf, where her mother was a music instructor and her father was a registrar.
She studied at Cologne with Isidor Seiss and Karl Bötcher. After winning the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1901, she studied in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky and Emil von Sauer.
Her grandmother introduced her to the works of Beethoven, and supported her piano playing. She taught at the Cologne Conservatory for three years, then became a touring virtuoso. In 1927 she was given the honorary freedom of Beethoven"s birthplace Bonn.
In 1932 she founded the Elly Ney Trio with Wilhelm Stross (violin) and Ludwig Hoelscher (cello): in quintets the group recorded with Florizel von Reuter (violin) and Walter Trampler (viola).
She traveled to many parts of the world, including the United States of America, playing in Carnegie Hall in New New York Elly Ney was married twice.
First, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten.They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918-2007). This marriage didn"t last long and later in life Ney reconciled with Van Hoogstraten.
Ney died in Tutzing in 1968.