ABOUT MARY LOUISE BOEHM
Musician and painter who focused on performing the repertoire of eclectic and neglected composers such as Amy Beach and Ernest Schelling.
She was a child prodigy and studied with such notable teachers as Robert Casadesus and Walter Gieseking.
She began painting in the 1960s and also pioneered modern adaptations of Indonesian batik techniques.
She was descended from early 19th-century Vienna piano-maker Joseph Boehm.
She brought the works of John Field to a new and younger generation.
