Julie Rivé-King was born on an uncertain date in Cincinnati, Ohio, of parents Caroline Staub Rivé and Léon Rivé.
Background
Her mother was a singer, teacher and composer who studied with Manuel Garcia in France, and her father was an artist and teacher. After a cholera epidemic that took three of their children in New Orleans, the couple moved to Baton Rouge, Louisville and then to Cincinnati where they found teaching positions and where Julie was born. Jullie took music lessons from her mother and appeared in recitals at age eight.
Education
She studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory with Henry Andrès and in 1870 in New York with Sebastian Bach Mills, William Mason, Francis Korbay and Dionys Pruckner. She also studied in Europe with Franz Liszt and Carl Reinecke and made her debut in Leipzig in 1873.
Career
Julie Rivé-King (1854? – 28 July 1937) was an American pianist and composer. She began a concert tour of Europe, but returned to the United States when her father was killed in a railroad accident. She made a debut in Cincinnati in 1874, officially debuted the next year with the New York Philharmonic and then toured the Eastern and Midwestern United States. To enhance her reputation, King persuaded her to publish his own works under her name.
During her lifetime six companies published compositions by King but bearing Rivé-King’s name.
Her husband died in 1900 and she moved to Chicago and took a position at the Bush Conservatory.