Marie Hall

Who was Marie Hall?

Marie Pauline Hall was an English violinist.

Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She received her first lessons from her father, who was a harpist in the orchestra of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. She also studied with a local teacher, Hildegarde Werner. Hall family moved around the country with her father and spent some years in Guarlford, a small village near Malvern. When she was nine, Émile Sauret heard her play but her parents did not follow his advice to send her to the Royal Academy of Music in London. She continued to study under several well known teachers, including Edward Elgar in 1894, August Wilhelmj in London in 1896, Max Mossel in Birmingham in 1898, and Professor Kruse in 1900 in London. In 1901, upon the advice of Jan Kubelík, she went to study under his former tutor Otakar Ševčík in Prague.

Hall played for the first time in Prague in November 1902, Vienna in January 1903, and made her London debut on February 16, 1903, scoring a success in all these places.

She possessed a technique that she believed was due to Ševčík's teaching.