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GROFF, Edith
GROFF, Edith. (Unknown-Dubuque, IA, Oct. 4, 1972). Concert pianist. Groff, a teacher of music at the Dubuque Academy of Music and (beginning in 1938) a piano instructor at the UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE, was honored on March 11, 1962. The day was proclaimed "Edith Groff Day" by the MAYOR in honor of her last concert.
A graduate of the Dubuque Academy of Music, Groff studied with Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Berlin Conservatory, Arthur Schnable of Italy and Switzerland, and Josef Lhevinne, head of the Moscow Conservatory.