Olga Samaroff
Pianist
Acclaimed musician who self-produced her 1905 New York debut at Carnegie Hall, becoming the first woman to do this.
She went to Europe to study piano after determining that there weren't any great piano teachers in the United States at the time.
Her performing career was irreparably hindered after she suffered a shoulder injury in 1925. She went on to become a critic, teacher, writer, and guest lecturer.
Her family's business was completely devastated by the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
She was in her time more their than her husband Leopold Stokowski, whom she discovered when he was serving as a church organist at New York's St. Bartholomew's. They would divorce in 1923.