# Clara Baur

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**Clara Baur** (1835–1912) was a German-born music teacher and founder of the [Cincinnati Conservatory of Music](/source/Cincinnati_Conservatory_of_Music).

## Biography

Clara Baur was born in [Baden-Württemberg](/source/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg), Germany, on 10 December 1835. Her father was a Lutheran preacher. Her elder brother Theodore moved to [Cincinnati](/source/Cincinnati) and after a few years he was joined by his brother Emil. Her niece Wanda married [Chalmers Clifton](/source/Chalmers_Clifton).[1] Baur went out to act as their housekeeper and also offered piano and voice lessons from the house. In 1867, she visited [Stuttgart](/source/Stuttgart) to see how their music education was structured. Baur intended to set up a school based on the European methods. She also visited [Paris](/source/Paris) and studied there before she returned and opened her Conservatory of Music at the end of the year in a room rented from the School of Young Ladies run by Clara Nourse. She had four tutors including her own voice coach, a cellist and a pianist. Baur would arrange accommodation for students from outside of the city. By the second year, the school expanded to include the violin, flute and theoretical instruction.[2] One of Baur's students was soprano [Emma Heckle](/source/Emma_Heckle).[3]

The conservatory continued to grow and when Baur died in 1912, her niece [Bertha Baur](/source/Bertha_Baur) took over. The school merged to become the [Cincinnati College—Conservatory of Music](/source/University_of_Cincinnati_%E2%80%93_College-Conservatory_of_Music) in 1955, and it became part of the [University of Cincinnati](/source/University_of_Cincinnati) in 1962.[2][4][5][6][7][8]

Baur died from heart failure at her apartments in the Conservatory on 18 December 1912.[9]

## References

1. ["MRS. CHALMERS CLIFTON"](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/12/82580657.html?pageNumber=92). *The New York Times*. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2025-03-20.

1. ["Baur, Clara (1835–1912)"](https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/baur-clara-1835-1912). *www.encyclopedia.com*. Encyclopedia.com.

1. ["Emma L. Heckle"](https://archive.org/details/sim_music-magazine-and-musical-courier_1891-11-04_23_611/page/511/mode/1up?q=%22Emma+L.+Heckle%22). *[The Musical Courier](/source/The_Musical_Courier)*. Vol. 23, no. 611. November 4, 1891. p. 511.

1. ["Setting the stage for CCM's 150th"](https://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0917/ccm-150.html). *University of Cincinnati*

1. Osborne, William (2004). [*Music in Ohio*](https://books.google.com/books?id=_x7_3e7H-xcC&dq=Clara+Baur+%281835%E2%80%931912%29&pg=PA173). Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-775-0.

1. Jackson, Cheryl (1998). ["Women as Leaders of Collegiate Bands, 1850-1980"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40374323). *College Music Symposium*. **38**: 118–125. [ISSN 0069-5696](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0069-5696). [JSTOR 40374323](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40374323)

1. Pendle, Karin (2001). [*Women & Music: A History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=XBXggAcjnEoC&dq=Clara+Baur+%281835%E2%80%931912%29&pg=PA200). Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33819-8.

1. Howe, Sondra Wieland (7 November 2013). [*Women Music Educators in the United States: A History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=92MYAgAAQBAJ&dq=Clara+Baur+%281835%E2%80%931912%29&pg=PA85). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8848-7.

1. ["Founder Conservatory of Music is Dead"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/anderson-herald-founder-conservatory-of/165056753/). *[Anderson Herald](/source/Anderson_Herald)*. 1912-12-18. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-02-09. – via Newspapers.com.

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