Wilma Neruda
Wilma Neruda, Lady Hallé, (March 21, 1838 in Brno Moravia – April 15, 1911 in Berlin) was a Czech violinist. She made her first public appearance as a violinist in Vienna at the age of seven, playing one of Bach's Violin Sonatas.
She married 1864 the swedisch musician Ludwig Norman (1831-1885) in Stockholm and had a son, Ludwig Norman Neruda who became a famous mountaineer and painter. After 4 years she moved to London with his son. She married 1888, after Ludwig Norman died, the German-English musician Charles Hallé. Gifted, after her husbands death, with a Palazzo in Asolo Italy she moved there to live with her son Ludwig who died in 1998 climbing in the Dolomites. After his son's death she moved to Berlin.
James Scott Skinner wrote a tune titled "Madame Neruda" in her honor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of Holmes and Watson attending one of her concerts. [1]
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