Georgia Kober

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Georgia L. Kober (1873 – September 14, 1942) was an American pianist and music educator who spent most of her career in Chicago. Born in Indiana, she studied piano with William Hall Sherwood in Chicago, and also with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Josef Lhévinne. Kober performed as a concert pianist and taught across the Midwest, in Texas (1922), and in California (1923). She made two piano recordings for Victor in 1924, and several Chicago composers dedicated works to her.

For more than 30 years, she was a piano instructor and the president of the Sherwood School of Music in Chicago. Her colleagues included conductors Daniel Protheroe and Isaac Van Grove, soprano Genevra Johnstone Bishop, and music historian Glenn Dillard Gunn. She resigned as president in 1942 and received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the school shortly before her death.

Kober died in Palo Alto, California, in 1942, at about age 69. Her large sheet music collection was donated to the Community Music School in San Francisco, except for a signed copy of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz, which went to the San Francisco Public Library.