Ilse (Weissmann) Glassel (1908 - 2000)

Born 5 May 1908 in Kaltennordheim, Wartburgkreis, Thüringen, Germany

Ancestors

Wife of Jerome Jackson Hard — married 6 Aug 1937 (to before 2 May 1944) in Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Died 4 Jul 2000 at age 92 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States

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Biography

Ilse Weissmann was born on the 5th of May, 1908 in Kaltennordheim, Kassel, Germany. Her parents were Adolf Weissmann and Gisella Grosz.

She married Jerome Jackson Hard on the 6th of August, 1937 in Firenze, Italy. They had a son named Thomas Michael Hard. Ilse and Jerome must of divorced sometime prior to the 2nd of May, 1944 when Ilse married secondly, Frederick W. Glassel in Duval, Florida.

Frederick passed away in 1973.

Ilse was living in Portland, Oregon when she passed away on the 4th of July, 2000.

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Research Notes

"Ilse Weissmann Glassel (1908-2000) was born in Berlin to the pianist Gisella Grosz (1975-1942) and Berlin music critc and author, Adolf Weissmann (1873-1929). Her Mother was Jewish and born in Romania, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Grosz studied at the Hugarian Academy of Music with Liszt’s pupil István Thomán and in Berlin with Teresa Carreño. She was a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1902, 1905, 1908 and 1909. She was also one of the first women pianists to record piano rolls with Welte Mignon. Ilse was born in 1908 out of wedlock, a big scandal at the time. She did not marry Weissmann until 1911 after her retirement from the stage. Her husband was well regarded for his music criticism and also for biographies of Bizet, Chopin, Puccini and Verdi. Ilse’s first piano teacher was her Mother. She then went to Paris in 1933, escaping the Nuremburg laws to study with Konrad Wolff. A year older than Weissmann, he had studied with List’s pupil Josef Lomba, Bruno Elsner and Artur Schnabel. Ilse lived in Paris and for a time Florence. Gisella Grosz resided in Berlin until 1942, when she was deported to the Riga Ghetto where she died the same year. (There is a rumor she was transported to Therisienstadt concentration camp.) Around 1939, Ilse moved to Great Britain; later she would move to the United States. She resided in Jeffersonville, New York and opened a piano studio in 1949. Ilse was also an artist who illustrated newspapers and magazines with drawings of various musicians she met during the 1920’s and 1930’s."

• "LEOPOLD GODOWSKY – PIANIST." Harmonie Autographs. Accessed Jan. 20th, 2021. https://www.harmonieautographs.com/index_files/Page11738.htm.

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See also:

• "Ilse Weissmann." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 20th, 2021. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTN5-N9K.

• "Ilse Glassel (Weissmann)." Geni. Accessed Jan. 21st, 2021. https://www.geni.com/people/Ilse-Glassel/6000000055829737891.

• "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2341-FJB : 27 November 2020), Fred W Glassel and Ilse Hard, 1944; citing Marriage, Florida, United States, citing multiple County Clerks of Court, Florida; FHL microfilm 2,115,780.

• "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRCX-V2X : 27 November 2020), Fred W Glassel and Ilse Hard, 2 May 1944; citing Marriage, Duval, Florida, United States, citing multiple County Clerks of Court, Florida; FHL microfilm 2,109,014.

• Certificate of Marriage, issued by American Consular Service, Naples, Italy, 6 Aug 1937.

• Consular report, Berlin, re birth and police status of Ilse Weissmann, issued October 1937.

• US Department of State, American Consulate. Report of Birth of Thomas Hard. (Florence, Italy, 1937-12-06).

• Copy of 1908 birth record, issued by Der Standesbeamte, Kaltennordheim, 29 Oct 1937.

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