Krebs-Brenning, Mary

1851-1900

Daughter of the conductor and composer, Karl August Krebs, and the opera singer, Aloysia Michalesi. Was a pianist of international reputation. She was born at Dresden, made a brilliant debut at Meissen when only eleven years old, and a year later made a four-year engagement with Mr. Gye for a series of concerts at Covent Garden, London, appearing one hundred and seventy times. She toured Italy and France with Adelina Patti, and later visited Belgium, Holland and Russia. She came to America twice. The first time, in 1870, she gave two hundred concerts, and was in Chicago at the time of the great fire. On her return from this trip she married Theodore Brenning. She appeared for the second time in the United States in 1877. She was very popular both in America and Europe, and was at one time Royal Saxon chamber-virtuosa.