Lillian Pringle Baldauf

Pringle was a cellist who performed across the United States in the 1910s and 1920s.^[5][6] She was a member of the Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra,^[3] and the Joseffer String Quartette of Chicago. In 1918 she was advertised as "the greatest woman cello virtuoso in the world."^[7]

She toured with baritone Bernardo Olshanky in 1921,^[8][9] and with singer Katherine Browne in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Mississippi in 1925.^[10] She gave recitals and played in churches and community events in the Chicago area later in the 1920s.^{[11][12][13][14]} "Her tone is noble, sonorous, suave, and absolutely convincing," according to a 1927 review in a Toronto newspaper. "Sympathetic beyond everything, it never sinks to mere sentimentalism."^[15]

After marriage, she taught cello at Kalamazoo College,^[16] where she was also conductor of the Instrumental Ensemble.^[17] She was a founder of the Little Symphony Orchestra of Kalamazoo.^[18] She also taught at Western Michigan University, where she played a faculty quartet and was active in the school's annual Bach Festival.^[3] In her later years she gave private lessons in cello and piano in Kalamazoo.^[19]

Pringle married fellow cellist Hans Bruno Baldauf.^[20] They were both active in the Kalamazoo Amateur Astronomical Association.^[21] She died in 1964, at the age of 83, at her home in Kalamazoo.^[2] The Lillian Pringle Baldauf Prize in Music is an award at Kalamazoo College, funded in her memory.